Critics charge that the Japanese carmaker is getting too big too fast, causing lapses in quality.
Toyota Motor Corp. seems poised to overtake General Motors Corp. as the world's biggest automaker, but lately the Japanese auto giant is finding the road to the top awfully bumpy.
After announcing a record number of recalls in the last three years and witnessing its J.D. Power & Associates quality rankings slip significantly, Toyota was demoted by Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, on its annual reliability rankings. This month the automaker was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of covering up manufacturing defects at a California plant it shares with GM.
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