He's referring to Toyota. They are globally recalling Toyota Corollas for failing torque converters. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/toyota-2019-corolla-hatch...

Clearly Toyota didn't know it was happening in their supply chain, but now they do.

That article is for CVT's, which don't use shiftable gears. Google-fu leads to this forum post from 2009, which references Acura directly:

https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1473068&cid=30...

Not to jump to any conclusions, but judging by the common user name, it seems possible that that's the same poster as the GGGP.