Toyota chair says group got "priorities wrong" as scandals unfold

Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Akio Toyoda on Tuesday apologized over a recent series of scandals involving its group companies, vowing to improve compliance across the member firms that he says "got their priorities wrong" as they grew."We deeply apologize for troubling and worrying customers with the series of scandals" that occurred at the truck subsidiary Hino Motors Ltd., the small-car unit Daihatsu Motor Co., and Toyota Industries Corp., Toyoda said at a press conference in Nagoya.The data rigging that occurred at the three firms was "an extremely serious matter that betrayed customers' …READ FULL ARTICLE