Akio Toyoda partakes in 50 mins of Lexus special discussion @ Tokyo Motor Show

[zeusus]

LEXUS SPECIAL TALKS @ TOKYO MOTOR SHOW





There are 4 days of special discussion sessions. If anybody speaks Japanese and would like to break down some of the main points for us, that'd be very much appreciated by the community, I'm sure!

Day 1 & 2 (10/26-27)
Akio Toyoda shows up for the second half of Day 1 and participates for more than half an hour. We rarely get to hear him off the cuff for this long on Lexus so this would be particularly great if someone can help translate the discussion.
Akio shows up at 4:47 <-- VIDEO HERE


Day 3 (11/1)

Day 4 (11/4)

 

[krew]

Paging @flexus!

 

[flexus]

Paging @flexus!

I ll translate

 

[internalaudit]

thanks Flexus. From the other video posted by Motor on another thread, spokesperson said Lexus in 2011 will no longer be boring. Hoping by 2021 majority of the line up will be true to that.

 

[flexus]

1st video
I'll skip talk about private life.
Toyoda talks about how after he became chairman he adapted policy that if someone doesn't like a car it will be cut off. But if the project starts to go forward nobody can't whine about it anymore. He says board has halted some Lexus projects. He also mentioned engineers of Toyota have attitude toward him that they think he doesn't understand any techinichal things. He resumes talking about future selfdriving capabilities but I'll translate it maybe tomorrow.

 

[Motor]

He says board has halted some Lexus projects.

Like what?

 

[flexus]

Like what?

He didn't specify but cars.

 

[CRSKTN]

He didn't specify but cars.

If I had to guess, GS/GS F...