Volkswagen Opens New Plant in China
24 Oct 2013, 13:55 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Volkswagen has commenced automobile production at its brand new plant in Ningbo, south eastern China, the German automaker revealed today. Located 150 kilometers south of the greater Shanghai area, ...
Toyota Transport Gains Smartway Award for Efficiency
24 Oct 2013, 14:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Toyota Motor Sales transportation team, known as Toyota Logistics Services (TLS) is moving about 2.2 million new Toyota and Lexus vehicles to dealerships every year and this week EPA recognized ...
Toyota Beginning Land Cruiser Prado Production in China
24 Oct 2013, 08:26 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota Motor Corporation announced that the Sichuan FAW Toyota Motor (SFTM) joint venture in China will start producing the 2.7-liter Land Cruiser Prado at the Chengdu plant in 2015. The new mode...
Toyota Scores Highly in 2013 Intellichoice Motorist Awards
23 Oct 2013, 16:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Motorist Choice Awards comprehends 13 different categories, with distinct divisions, like Popular, which covers competitively priced cars, and Premium, which handles the high-end vehicles. An...
Toyota Tops in “Simple” Automotive Brands Survey
23 Oct 2013, 16:13 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Today’s vehicles can hardly be considered simple, with all that wiring, computers, sensors and automatic functions, but when they are made properly and you don’t know about all the wizar...
Toyota Plant in Japan Makes Its Own Power After Fukushima Event
22 Oct 2013, 14:49 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disasters back in 2011 caused widespread power outages in Japanese communities such as Ohira, but a remote Toyota plant in the region managed to recover quickly...
Toyota and Discovery Education Gathering Teen Filmmakers
22 Oct 2013, 14:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Do you know a teen aspiring to a filmmaking career or one that is very creative and makes nice video montages? Then steer him/her to the 2014 Toyota Teen Driver Video Challenge. The challenge inv...
SMRT Singapore Adds 600 New Toyota Prius to Fleet
22 Oct 2013, 13:09 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As hybrid vehicles are gaining popularity among taxi operators, the third largest cab company in Singapore, SMRT, announced to expand its fleet with 600 new Toyota Prius which are expected to arrive...
Street Toyota Dealership Wins Two “Best of Amarillo” Awards
22 Oct 2013, 10:13 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Located at 4500 South Soncy in Amarillo, Texas, Street Toyota dealership has been elected to receive two honors in the annual Best of Amarillo Awards. The dealership will be entitled with the &ld...
Facelifted Scion xB Coming in 2015?
21 Oct 2013, 08:56 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / After last week’s report about Scion not putting out fully revamped models until at least 2016, Edmunds tells that a revised Scion xB may arrive in 2015. Speaking with Scion’s vice pr...
Toyota Advertising Again Its Future of Transportation
18 Oct 2013, 15:37 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Ok, so Toyota’s vision for the future transportation resembles pretty much with an ant hill. If you don’t know, the key element which stands at the base of the organized ants’ s...
Toyota Texas Celebrates 10th Anniversary, Donates 10 Trucks
18 Oct 2013, 10:29 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / After celebrating its 1 millionth truck rolled out of the assembly line last month, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas came to another milestone - celebrating its 10th anniversary. Toyota broke gro...
Charles Morgan Removed from Morgan Motor Company
16 Oct 2013, 15:51 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Charles Morgan, nephew of Morgan Motor Company founder Henry Frederick Stanley Morgan, has been completely removed as head of the family-owned British-based car manufacturer. Replaced as managing...
Toyota Presents the Ha:Mo Transport System
16 Oct 2013, 16:18 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota promises to change the way we travel around town with its Ha:mo multimodal transport system. Which also makes a good reason for why the Japanese automaker was crowned the most innovative one ...
Toyota Prius Now Included in Hertz Australia Rental Fleet
16 Oct 2013, 15:00 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The world’s largest general use car rental brand, Hertz, just introduced 40 new Toyota Prius hybrids into its Green Collection in Australia in order to keep up with the CO2 emission print. ...
Toyota Named Most Innovative Automaker
16 Oct 2013, 09:45 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Just being the world’s most valuable automaker was not enough for Toyota, as it was recently named the most innovative one too. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has published its annual re...
Spyker B6 Venator To Have Toyota-Based Engine
15 Oct 2013, 14:45 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It’s been said that Dutch sportscar manufacturer Spyker wants to fit a Lotus-built V6 engine under the hood of its upcoming B6 Venator model. Why would you want to learn that on this blog? ...
Toyota Defying Engine Downsizing to Go for Bigger Atkinsons
15 Oct 2013, 13:19 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / With the stricter fuel consumption and CO2 emissions regulations these days, all automakers are downsizing their engines and are fitting them with turbochargers to still offer power. All, but Toyota...
Toyota Australia Cutting Jobs and Lowering Costs
15 Oct 2013, 09:27 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As the auto industry in Australia is nowhere near nourish, Toyota’s local subsidiary is said to cut down on jobs and diminish manufacturing costs in order to keep its operations viable. Toy...
Lexus ES Reaches 1.5 Million Milestone
15 Oct 2013, 08:37 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota luxury division Lexus reached a new milestone with one of its lineup models. The 1.5 millionth ES sedan unit rolled out the assembly line recently. The not-sold-in-Europe Lexus ES become t...