The new president of Toyota Motor Corp. took the news calmly when the U.S. government filed a lawsuit against a Toyota sales subsidiary seeking fines of up to $58.5 billion under the Clean Air Act. "I knew (in advance) that a lawsuit like this would be filed. I didn't have any particular feeling," Fujio Cho said Wednesday during an interview in Tokyo with The Japan Times. The U.S. government has accused Toyota of putting faulty smog-control computers on 2.2 million 1996-1998 vehicles. But Cho said that he is somewhat perplexed because, he claimed, the Toyota subsidiary consulted closely with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at each step in the development and testing of the computers. He believed that the vehicles had passed environmental regulations.