Japan's leading auto-manufacturer Toyota will be launching a global recall for some of its hybrid cars in order to resolve recent braking problems, the Japanese Transport Ministry announced today.
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The office is expected to provide a briefing on the recall at 0500 GMT tomorrow, while Toyota's president, Akio Toyoda, will make his first public appearance in the Japanese capital since reliability issues threatened to tarnish Toyota's reputation.
The recall is expected to cover around 223, 088 cars in Japan itself, with around 200,000 of them being its popular petrol-electric Prius cars.
The global recall count is estimated at 8 million cars, which would cost the company an estimated $US2bn.
The recall comes in the wake of complaints regarding brake system problems in the Prius model, as Toyota plans to recall its Lexus HS250h and Sai hybrid cars, which also had reported to have the same braking problems as the Prius.
Toyoda meanwhile has moved quickly to reassure that Toyota Motor will be more responsive to safety regulators in the future and will open a quality centre in the US.
The move comes in the wake of increasing criticism faced by Toyota in US for what was viewed as a slow response to the technical defects in the cars.
Toyota was forced to halt the sales of eight models in US due to the technical difficulties.
"Toyota will be more vigilant in responding to those officials in all matters," Toyoda wrote in a statement.
The Prius has been Toyota's top-selling auto for the past eight months.
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