Some might say that Toyota's current crisis is a result of enormously bad luck, and they might be partly right.

Yet Toyota's problems also appear to have been the result of a series of tiny flops, over and over, ranging from quality control to public relations disasters.

For example, it shouldn't have taken until today for its CEO to address its safety matters in public

99% of your hard work is meaningless when 1% of the time you're a complete joke.

We've put together a quick guide to the amazingly unfortunate serious of events that put Toyota into its current situation.