Toyota problems may delay launch of new models

By Graham Ruddick Published: 9:14PM GMT 06 March 2010

The Japanese car builder is set to launch the RAV4 2010 model, the 2010 Auris and the Auris Hybrid this year in Europe and a check of their prolongation would be a blow to the 4,000 workers at Toyota"s plants in Derbyshire and South Wales.

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The Burnaston plant in Derbyshire has won the right to furnish the new versions of the Auris for Europe, a manoeuvre for UK manufacturing, with prolongation of the hybrid due to proceed in late May.

However, any check in prolongation would be a blow for the plant in a year when car sales are approaching to tumble and Toyota has already voiced 750 jobs will go.

Speaking in an talk with The Sunday Telegraph, Tadashi Arashima, the arch comparison manager of Toyota Motor Europe, said: "We are deliberating that, if necessary, we will carry over the launch timing. For us there is the hybrid in late May, that is unequivocally key. We wish to have certain that this car is scrupulously launched but any vital issues."

Toyota was forced to stop 8.5m cars progressing this year, together with 180,000 in the UK, since of braking problems with the Prius hybrid and concerns about gummy accelerator pedals on a pick up of alternative models, together with all Auris cars done in between Oct 2006 and Dec 2009.

Mr Arashima additionally cautioned in the talk that the association is "carefully assessing" the prolongation volumes it will need in the UK this year. Burnaston is to close down for an additional week over Easter and, among a frail economy, there are fears of serve halts in production.

The Toyota Europe trainer pronounced it was his "desire" to equivocate serve shutdowns.

"Our feeling at this impulse is that the elemental mercantile strength [in Europe] is not there. Also a little countries, similar to Spain, are going to enlarge VAT from Jul 1 this year and majority countries are in monetary difficulty and they have to do something. I think this year"s marketplace will be really reduce than last year."

Mr Arashima was vocalization at the Geneva Motor Show, where, as a part of of the board, he was the majority comparison Toyota comparison manager present.

Akio Toyoda, the tellurian arch executive, was absent from the eventuality notwithstanding publicly apologising in the US and China for the mass stop of cars.