Toyota South Africa Plant Preparing for New Investment
29 Nov 2013, 16:27 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It was only this week when the Toyota plant in Durban, South Africa, rolled of its line the 1 millionth Corolla model, achieving a new milestone and a possible new investment from the Japanese motor...
GM China Appoints New President
29 Nov 2013, 15:28 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors has announced that Matt Tsien will take over as president of GM China starting January 1, 2014, when current boss Bob Socia will retire after nearly four decades with the Detroit-base...
Toyota Europe Released Annual “Good Deeds” Report
29 Nov 2013, 15:35 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota Motor Europe (TME) today released its seventh annual Sustainability Report, which aims to provide invaluable content to stakeholders in three distinct and simple chapters: Always Better Cars,...
Caterham Says "Leaked" SUV Sketch Is Fake
28 Nov 2013, 15:39 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Caterham was quick to dismiss an image that claimed to show the silhouette of its upcoming SUV, with the company explaining that this had nothing to do with its development. The adjacent image, w...
Why the Fourth Generation Toyota Celica Was a Special Car
28 Nov 2013, 15:55 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / In August 1986 the Toyota Celica was completely changed, turning from the A platform to the T one. Sadly that meant that the car was also quitting on the rear wheel power delivery. However, as fe...
Toyota To Install Solar Array at UK Engine Plant
28 Nov 2013, 15:06 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota announced that it wants to install a large solar panel array near the engine producing plant in Deeside, Wales. The plan includes 12,680 solar panels that will be built on the site which w...
Toyota Boshoku Developing New Bio-Based Plastic Alloy
28 Nov 2013, 12:47 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Don’t worry, the automakers are not mixing fuzzy bunnies with petroleum products to create new materials. Instead they combine organic resins to create reinforced plastics. Automotive inter...
Toyota and Lexus Officially Selling on eBay
27 Nov 2013, 18:23 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / No, the companies are not selling new vehicles on eBay, but they can hook you up with genuine parts and accessories through the well-known website. The Toyota Official Store gives United Kingdom ...
Toyota US Chief Communication Officer In Top 10 Most Powerful Women in the Auto Industry
27 Nov 2013, 09:32 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It’s a fact that males are more inclined towards automotive than females and the most important car making companies are run by men. But how about the women in the auto industry? Fortune re...
New Mazda2 to Target Female Customers
26 Nov 2013, 10:39 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Mazda is currently in advanced development stages of the new Mazda2 and the B-segment car is set to target the female audience more. The new Mazda2, which is scheduled to arrive in Europe in autumn ...
Carlos Tavares, Ex-Renault COO, to Become Peugeot CEO
26 Nov 2013, 10:25 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Pegueot has recently appointed a new Chief Executive Officer, in the person of Carlos Tavares, who had previously been Chief Operation Officer, before recently stepping down. Tavares, who had sai...
Porsche Drifts 911 Facebook Fan Car to Promote New Season Gifts
26 Nov 2013, 09:53 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Porsche has launched a pair of gifts for the holidays, with the company recently putting a special 911 through its paces on the Silverstone track in the UK to promote this. We are talking about the ...
Lotus Gets Government Cash Injection, 300 New Jobs Coming
26 Nov 2013, 09:34 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Lotus has just secured a GBP10.44M ($16.2 or EUR11.95) grant from the UK’s Regional Growth Fund (RGF), with the money set to sustain new product development, as well as employee training. What...
Toyota FJ Cruiser, Tacoma, 4Runner, Tundra in Top Resale Value by AutoGuide
26 Nov 2013, 09:20 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / With vehicles being the fastest depreciating items on the market, more and more car buyers now think twice about the resale value of the vehicle they want to buy, and it looks like Toyota tops this ...
Lamborghini Gallardo Production Ends with LP 570-4 Spyder Performante
26 Nov 2013, 08:09 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / A tip of the hat goes out to the Lamborghini Gallardo, whose production has just ended on November 25, 2013. Look beyond the Rosso Mars color of the Gallardo LP570-4 Spyder Performante, the last uni...
Lexus IS Tops Ipsos Quality Survey
25 Nov 2013, 16:30 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Global research giant Ipsos has released its ninth Quality Awards for Product Quality, a benchmark conducted over a 12-month period on more than 10,000 passenger and light commercial vehicles. Co...
Lexus Expecting Record Sales
25 Nov 2013, 10:54 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / According to a top Lexus executive, the luxury automaker is expecting to set a global sales record of more than 520,000 units this year. Lexus executive vice president Mark Templin said recently ...
Next Toyota Prius To Be More Fun-To-Drive
25 Nov 2013, 10:25 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Along with the new Toyota Global Architecture, the company says that it will also make the fourth generation Prius more fun-to-drive. Toyota Prius godfather Satoshi Ogiso explains that the upcomi...
US Government to Sell Remaining GM Stock by End of 2013
22 Nov 2013, 09:55 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The US Treasury Department plans to sell its remaining shares of General Motors by the end of the year, according to a statement that was released earlier this week. After selling $1.2 billion wo...
SEVENFRIDAY P1 Automation: Robot Dressed as a Watch
21 Nov 2013, 16:43 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / US watchmaker SEVENFRIDAY is offering us a preview for an upcoming piece, which is inspired by KUKA robotics, a company that knows a thing or two about suppling industrial robots around the world. ...