Toyota board chair and former CEO wears MAGA shirt and hat at NASCAR event.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda Wears Trump-Vance T-Shirt, MAGA Hat at NASCAR Event in Japan



https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a69474457/toyota-chairman-akio-toyoda-trump-vance-t-shirt-maga-hat-at-nascar-event-in-japan/

[wcmagumba]

1. I find this disgusting, especially since I drive an older Corolla I purchased new...

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I can't afford a different car so I'm stuck but I'm no Maggot...

[UpInArms]

2. Will make certain that Toyota is never on my want list.

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[a kennedy]

4. Ditto.......ugh, NEVER TOYOTA!!!!!

[dalton99a]

3. Whatever it takes to pacify the tyrant

[Celerity]

5. more pics

Link to tweet

[MagickMuffin]

7. That 1st pic looks like an Asian Rudy

Maybe it’s that cheesy smile.

[Liberal In Texas]

23. The Toyota suit is driving a Ford!?

[fujiyamasan]

6. lol looks like a fucking idiot

All these Asian republicans should listen to and learn what real MAGAts have to say about them.

It’s like with the steeet being renamed in Garden Grove or wherever in Orange County recently. It was all a bunch of older Vietnamese folks on the board they voted for it. I doubt those idiots had ever even heard what Charlie Kirk said about immigrants.

Or they’re too deluded to think they’re ever talking about them. After all they’re the good ones.

[iemanja]

8. He's an idiot

I never understand why businesses display their politics. It only alienates customers. Toyota has all the top ten selling cars in the US at the moment, so I guess they don’t care.

[B.See]

14. Precisely. The moron didn't stop

to think how many liberals and others who despise Trump would be offended, how Trump's tariffs threatened sales of his product in America,

nor how many dyed in the wool 'America first' MAGATs would NEVER buy a Toyota in the first place.

Maybe a well publicized and vocal boycott MIGHT give him a fkng CLUE.

[mwmisses4289]

9. Well, I was looking at getting a new vehicle

from them in a year or two, but I may have rethink that.

Actually, I will not be surprised to hear that guy is off the board in a few months.

[Celerity]

10. 2026 GR86

[ForgoTheConsequence]

11. How is this relevant?

[Celerity]

12. It is a Toyota nt

[Polybius]

16. Nice looking car

Wonder if it's more money than my 2024 ($37k).

[Celerity]

17. ...

[Polybius]

19. Damn, nice prices

I won't go back to another ICE car though, as I am EV all the way now.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

13. OK, so then, Honda for us.

We had been casually looking at Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrids. We even test drove one. I'm glad to find this out now. He's not going to get our money. We'll look for other brands...

[Ars Longa]

15. Not going to age well!!

[Coventina]

18. Makes me glad I drive a Mazda!

Vroom Vroom!

[kacekwl]

20. So this moron is standing

in front of a Ford truck giving a thumbs up. Does he even know WTF he's doing ?

[Initech]

21. Well, fuck him and fuck Trump!

[Hugin]

24. Something must've been lost in translation.

[Happy Hoosier]

25. Honda it is, then. NT

[RazorbackExpat]

26. The visuals are awful

but I think the dude just wants to ensure that Toyota isn't hurt by Trump's tariffs. I think it might also be a way of helping to ensure that Japanese nationals in the US aren't caught up in this ICE bullshit (although a few were caught up in the Georgia Hyundai raid)

[ms liberty]

27. Toyota makes sone of the most affordable, reliable and popular on the market

And the Japanese are very sensitive to impropriety. These photos could come back to bite this guy.

[purr-rat beauty]

28. Apparently Honor ain't a thing

He's not very bright, the optics of this on the cusp of a major scandal for trump isn't gonna help Toyota

[mountain grammy]

29. I've been looking at cars...

crossing Toyota off my list. What a stupid man,.

[dem4decades]

30. Well fuck him and the Toyota he rode in on.

[Kid Berwyn]

31. Bought them at White House merch kiosk.

Made a bigly favorable “impression” on orange dipshit the traitor.

[Hotler]

32. Does he think democratic congressmen should be hanged also? nt

[Clouds Passing]

33. He looks like a cheap tourist

[Beringia]

34. I hope it bites in the ass Bigly