Toyota Yaris Mass Recall

Toyota Yaris is one of my favourite cars in terms of exterior design. I was shocked when I heard Toyota is recalling Yaris and some other models worldwide due to faculty seatbelts and exhaust pipe defects. It is really lucky that the ones in Singapore are not affected by this recall. I believe this will definitely cause chaos if the recall include Singapore because Toyota is the most popular automobile brand here.

I extracted the below from Channel News Asia:

" Toyota Motor says Singapore not affected by vehicle recall
Channel NewsAsia - Thursday, January 29
By Satish Cheney, Channel NewsAsia Posted: 28 January 2009 1843 hrs

SINGAPORE: Toyota Motor Corp is recalling more than 1.35 million vehicles worldwide due to faulty seatbelts and exhaust pipe defects.

Affected vehicles are the Belta, Ractis and Vitz models assembled in Japan. The Vitz subcompact is known as Yaris in Singapore and many other markets.

When contacted by Channel NewsAsia, Toyota Motor Asia—Pacific’s general manager of External Affairs, Enomoto Masato, said the models that the company sells in Singapore are not affected as they are assembled in Thailand.

It, however, could not rule out models which were parallel imported into Singapore from Japan. Toyota said owners of such vehicles should seek advice from the dealers they bought from.

Toyota said on Wednesday it is recalling 830,000 Yaris cars in overseas markets including US, Europe, Canada and Australia.

In Japan, it is recalling a total of 525,898 Vitz, Belta small car and Ractis compacts built from January 2005 to April 2008. "

PS: The Vitz subcompact is known as Yaris in Singapore and many other markets.