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Akio Toyoda (豊田 章男, Toyoda Akio, born 3 May 1956) is a Japanese business executive who is the chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation. He was previously the company's president and chief executive officer (CEO). [ 1 ]
Akio Toyoda was named President of Toyota in 2009, pictured in 2011. Amid the unintended acceleration scandal, Katsuaki Watanabe stepped down as company president. He was replaced by Akio Toyoda, grandson of company founder Kiichiro Toyoda, on June 23, 2009. Akio had been with Toyota since 1984, working jobs in production, marketing and product ...
Toyota Gazoo Racing (TGR) is a motorsport division of the Japanese car manufacturer Toyota.Alongside competition activities, the division develops technologies for the Gazoo Racing (GR) sub-brand of Toyota's sports and performance-oriented production road cars.
In April 2023, he succeeded Akio Toyoda as CEO of Toyota. [2] He became also became the President in June 2023. [1] External links. Biography at Toyota website;
The decision led to years of speculation that Toyota would eventually bring a hot hatch to the United States and Canada. The introduction of the vehicle was delayed by a year, because Akio Toyoda, then CEO of Toyota, also a racing driver, was not satisfied with the tuning of a prototype, and asked the GR team to make changes. [6]
On 5 August 2009, Toyota's new CEO, Akio Toyoda, publicly confirmed production of the LF-A in his speech at a conference held at the Center for Automotive Research in the United States. [27] The production vehicles were expected to carry V10 engines. [28] [29] Two LF-A prototypes had also competed at Nürburgring VLN endurance races in mid-2009.
Akio Toyoda (born 1956), president of the Toyota Motor Corporation Eiji Toyoda (1913–2013), Japanese industrialist, and largely responsible for the success of the Toyota Motor Corporation Kiichiro Toyoda (1894–1952), creator of what was to become the Toyota Motor Corporation
Akio Toyoda, the president and CEO of Toyota, issued the following statement in regards to the recalled vehicles: [140] Toyota has, for the past few years, been expanding its business rapidly. Quite frankly, I fear the pace at which we have grown may have been too quick.