{"id":4212,"date":"2010-01-27T17:13:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T22:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4212"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:41:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:41:25","slug":"toyota-suspends-some-u-s-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/01\/27\/toyota-suspends-some-u-s-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota suspends some U.S. sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4214\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/01\/Toyota-logo1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Toyota logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>In an unprecedented industry move, Toyota, the world&#8217;s most successful automaker, temporarily <a title=\"suspended\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-01-27\/toyota-idling-plants-marks-step-to-win-back-u-s-buyers-trust.html\" target=\"_blank\">suspended<\/a> U.S. sales of eight models until it figures out a brake-pedal problem that sparked a recall.\u00a0 Former Ford Motors executive <a title=\"Louis Lataif\" href=\"http:\/\/management.bu.edu\/about\/dean\/bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Louis Lataif<\/a>, long-time dean of the School of Management, says it\u00a0may help domestic manufacturers, but it premature to read too much into the situation.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It may be that suspending sales while the technical correction is made to vehicles in dealer inventory &#8212; and a week or so of production stoppage &#8212; will represent a more modest financial and reputational blow than other alternatives which may have given the problem a longer life.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Louis Lataif, 617-353-2668, <a href=\"mailto:lelataif@bu.edu\">lelataif@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unprecedented industry move, Toyota, the world&#8217;s most successful automaker, temporarily suspended U.S. sales of eight models until it figures out a brake-pedal problem that sparked a recall.\u00a0 Former Ford Motors executive Louis Lataif, long-time dean of the School of Management, says it\u00a0may help domestic manufacturers, but it premature to read too much into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[217,1336],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8189,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions\/8189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}