Word: fuso
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most wonderful car and people still won't buy it." The Daimler people are hoping that won't happen to them. The troubles at Daimler follow years of restructuring after the 1998 merger of Daimler and Chrysler, and persistent quality problems at the Japanese commercial-vehicle subsidiary, Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. But quality is what the Mercedes brand is especially known for, and that's the area where the firm is hurting itself most. Customer complaints prompted the record recall, and even German taxi drivers are switching allegiance. Since 2001, Mercedes' share of new taxi registrations in Germany...
...scandal broke in March, when executives at Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus, until last year a Mitsubishi Motors division, admitted after discussions with government regulators that a defect in wheel hubs on its heavy trucks could result in wheels suddenly coming off the vehicles. (Mitsubishi Fuso had previously maintained the problem was due to poor maintenance.) Later, the truck unit acknowledged it had hidden a problem with fractured clutch housings that could cause a transmission part to fall off vehicles. According to regulators, these two flaws are suspected to have caused or contributed to 73 accidents and two fatalities, including...