Let me see if I got this right. As the CEO of Toyota North America I'm pulling home millions of dollars in salary and my future is pretty much set. Easy retirement, etc. Nah, screw that! I'll just throw it all away for some tail. http://www.lxforums.com/board/images/smilies/loser1.gif

http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dl.../60508011/1041 (http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060508/FREE/60508011/1041)

Ha!!!

I guess it doesn't matter where you work, some guys are still just creeps! I won't laugh too hard though, now that Toyota has had some bad press, I'm sure the America Media will respond with 3 or 4 highly critical stories on GM.

It is for things like this that makes legal prostitution look good. This all could have been avoided with a hooker.

Oh well, its Japan. They think women are property. I'll avoid a full-scale rant on Japanese culture and leave it at that, for now.

I've heard that too.

Power trips + skirts in the office = trouble

Same thing happened once to another president who thought it was okay to get his willie whistled in the oval office.

Oh well, its Japan. They think women are property. I'll avoid a full-scale rant on Japanese culture and leave it at that, for now.

Jesda turning down a free rant? What the ..................

***shakes head, walks away....looks back once............shakes head and continues***

imainge that toyota isnt perfect ...its ...dare i say ....ran by humans ...

another big thing in japanese culture is honor ....i say his days are numbered for discrediting the company ..the folks at tokyo wont be happy about the bad press ....even tho there prolly little teenage girls under there desk at all times with toyota emblems on there asses...


i think shes in the right , but the thing that discredits her is the ammount of cash shes looking for ....

to bad the boos not keeping his pants on will get more attention then the cooked epa figures on the prius ...at least GM can say its hybrid silverado can actually do beatter then the figures ...

even tho there prolly little teenage girls under there desk at all times with toyota emblems on there asses...


HAHAHAHAHAH!!!! I wasn't going to go there, but I'm glad you did, because now I'm laughing my ass off. :D :D :D

COOOOOOROLLLLLA ....

makes the idea of a toyota theme version fo the movie offspace sound funny as hell dont it ?

mmmmm oohhkay , im uhhhhhh gonna need you to go ahead and uhh come into work sunday ....yeeeeah and bring a towel ok ?

imainge that toyota isnt perfect ...its ...dare i say ....ran by humans ...

another big thing in japanese culture is honor ....i say his days are numbered for discrediting the company ..the folks at tokyo wont be happy about the bad press ....even tho there prolly little teenage girls under there desk at all times with toyota emblems on there asses...


i think shes in the right , but the thing that discredits her is the ammount of cash shes looking for ....

to bad the boos not keeping his pants on will get more attention then the cooked epa figures on the prius ...at least GM can say its hybrid silverado can actually do beatter then the figures ...

Within 24 hours his replacement was announced. The injustice is not so much in the doing, but corporate Toyota's ignoring of the woman's complaints and unwillingness to even investigate. They're screwed. Best to settle out of court. Hopefully she'll take $10 Million and go away. We'll see.

Nah, I hope she doesn't just go away, I want this to turn into a big mess for Toyota. They can build the world's most reliable cars, but can they deal with a PR nightmare?

Harry Stonecipeher got his hand caught in the cookie jar at Boeing. They'll bury the incident.

Harry Stonecipeher got his hand caught in the cookie jar at Boeing.


That is the coolest last name. Ever.

with stone in your name you cant go wrong ...

The innocent don't resign.

http://www.thecarconnection.com/Auto_News/Daily_Edition/Daily_Edition_May_9_2006.S173.A10400.html

Toyota has shunted aside Hideaki Otaka, the CEO of Toyota Motor North America, and will move U.S. sales chief Jim Press to New York, all in the wake of sexual harassment allegations at the automaker. Press, 59 and president of Toyota Motor Sales, becomes the president of the holding company that controls the American sales arm of the Japanese automaker. Yuki Funo, Automotive News reported late Monday night, will become the holding company's new CEO. Otaka, 65, resigned on Monday after his former assistant, Sayaka Kobayashi, charged Otaka with sexual harassment in a $190 million lawsuit on May 1. Press' duties will be assumed by Jim Lentz, but Press will not be directly replaced as of now.