(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corporation President and CEO Akio Toyoda addresses employees at the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, February 25, 2010. REUTERS/ John Sommers II
(AFP/File) - Toyota Motor Corporation President and CEO Akio Toyoda on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 24. Toyota's bungled global recalls has badly damaged its brand image, but while the carmaker faces its biggest-ever crisis, analysts and experts say its reputation is by no means beyond repair.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)
(AFP/File) - A cyclist rides past a Toyota car parked along a street in Beijing. Toyota's bungled global recalls has badly damaged its brand image, but while the carmaker faces its biggest-ever crisis, analysts and experts say its reputation is by no means beyond repair.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)
(AFP/File) - Toyota Motor Corporation President and CEO Akio Toyoda on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 24. Toyota's bungled global recalls has badly damaged its brand image, but while the carmaker faces its biggest-ever crisis, analysts and experts say its reputation is by no means beyond repair.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)
(AFP/File) - A cyclist rides past a Toyota car parked along a street in Beijing. Toyota's bungled global recalls has badly damaged its brand image, but while the carmaker faces its biggest-ever crisis, analysts and experts say its reputation is by no means beyond repair.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)
(AP) - In this Feb. 3, 2010 photograph vehicles belonging to the small crew of Toyota employees dot the parking lot outside the Blue Springs, Miss., plant. Toyota says it's holding off production in Blue Springs, not because of the recall, but until the car market improves and the company sells off 'excess capacity.' (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
(AP) - In this Feb. 3, 2010 photograph Mike Gentry, who owns Gentry's Grocery & Grill in Blue Springs, a town of 144 people, says business boomed while hundreds of workers were building the plant, roads and rail lines. Gentry even bought a catering truck to take food to the site. Toyota says it's holding off production in Blue Springs, not because of the recall, but until the car market improves and the company sells off 'excess capacity.' (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
(AP) - In this Feb. 4, 2010 photograph, Barry Emison, a tool and dye technology teacher at Itawamba Community College in Tupelo, Miss., ICC, says 'about 100 percent' of the students in the program hoped to get a job at Toyota or one of the suppliers that plan to set up shop in Mississippi. Toyota says it's holding off production in Blue Springs, not because of the recall, but until the car market improves and the company sells off 'excess capacity.' (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
(AP) - In this Feb. 4, 2010 photograph taken in Tupelo, Miss., Itawamba Community College student Terry McShan, a 46-year-old father of a grown daughter and a 4-year-old girl recalled how thrilled he was when Toyota announced plans in 2007 to build a plant in Blue Springs, a one-store town between Tupelo and New Albany. McShan enrolled in the junior college's automotive program in hopes of landing a job at the plant. However, with competition of the program and the plant not up and running, McShan is exploring his options until Toyota begins hiring employees. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
(AP) - In this Feb. 3, 2010 photo, a security officer secures a vehicle pass gate at the Toyota plant in Blue Springs, Miss., as staff leave during the lunch hour. Toyota says it's holding off production in Blue Springs, not because of the recall, but until the car market improves and the company sells off 'excess capacity.' (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)