Toyota, other Japan automakers under fire for new lapses as safety scandal deepens
) temporarily halted shipments or sales of some vehicles after Japan's transport ministry found irregularities in applications to certify their models.
Toyota, the world's biggest automaker by volume, said on Monday it has temporarily halted shipments and sales of three car models made in Japan. Chairman Akio Toyoda will hold a press conference at 0800 GMT on Monday. It also found crash tests of the Atenza and Axela models that were no longer in production had been tampered with by using a timer to set off airbags during some frontal collision tests instead of relying on an on-board sensor to detect a hit.Honda, which is also due to hold a press conference later in the day, said it had found wrongdoing in noise and output tests over a period of more than eight years to October 2017 on some two dozen models that are no longer being produced.
It added there were no performance issues that violated regulations and customers did not need to stop using their cars.
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