Toyota's Lentz Talks Gibberish on the Today Show
1 Feb 2010, 14:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As we told you earlier today, Toyota's US CEO Jim Lentz went on the Today Show on NBC to try and talk some sense into all those Toyota owners who got spooked by the sticking accelerator pedal. ...
Eureka: Toyota Finds Fix for Accelerator Pedal
1 Feb 2010, 13:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As hinted in media reports throughout last week, Japanese carmaker Toyota detailed today how it plans to fix the potentially faulty accelerator pedal in the gazillion vehicles it has recalled so far...
Toyota Loses $21 Billion, Plans Media Comeback
1 Feb 2010, 11:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Armageddon-like recall of Toyota vehicles is proving to be a tougher nut to crack for the Japanese carmaker. What started out as a minor glitch is now turning into a problem of biblical proporti...
Hyundai to Offer Incentives for Toyota Owners
1 Feb 2010, 08:54 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / If Toyota thought things couldn’t get any worse, it was dead wrong. The Japanese car manufacturer is sinking deeper and deeper, while car producers in the US continue to offer important incent...
CTS Corp. Defends Accelerator Pedal
1 Feb 2010, 08:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As we told you in a previous report, one of the collateral victims of the Toyota massive accelerator pedal recall is the supplier of the faulty pedals, CTS Corp. The American supplier decided, after...
Toyota's European Recall: 8 Models, 1.8 Million Cars
1 Feb 2010, 08:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Following a weekend of uncertainty regarding the number of vehicles and models affected by Toyota's stuck accelerator pedal in Europe, the Japanese carmaker managed to add the numbers and relea...
Japanese Mayhem: Honda Announces 646,000 Unit Recall
29 Jan 2010, 15:40 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / If you’re wondering what went wrong with the Japanese auto industry all of a sudden, the answer may be lying in some of the top secret research files of the troubled automakers or in some seri...
Toyota Shares Drop for the Sixth Day
29 Jan 2010, 14:06 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / This year does not seem to be one of Toyota’s best, as the Japanese manufacturer becomes more and more controversial by the day. Impressive recall numbers come up every 24 hours and it seems l...
China Happy with Toyota, Ford Recall
29 Jan 2010, 12:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Chinese government responded to recent recall and production stop announcement by Japanese Toyota and American Ford manufacturers, saying it welcomes the measures. "It is a good thing. ...
Toyota Incidents in Europe: 26 (and Counting?)
29 Jan 2010, 09:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After yesterday the European arm of Japanese carmaker Toyota announced it will begin recalling cars equipped with faulty accelerators on the Old Continent, the number of related incidents was reveal...
Toyota Faulty Accelerator Fix
29 Jan 2010, 08:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With Toyota's biggest recall ever far from over, the Japanese carmaker released today details on how it plans to fix the faulty accelerator problems which led to this unprecedented measure. Acc...
Official: Toyota Recall Begins in Europe
28 Jan 2010, 14:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Following almost a day of rumors, speculation and unofficial confirmation, Japanese carmaker Toyota announced through its UK media website it will begin a recall of its vehicles, based on possible a...
Toyota May Cut 750 UK Jobs
28 Jan 2010, 14:18 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Toyota’s current situation is a perfect example that it is much easier to get to the top than to maintain that position. After managing to surpass GM as the world’s biggest automotive pr...
Toyota's Recall to Go Global, Europe and China Affected
28 Jan 2010, 11:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just like a virus, the accelerator nightmare Japanese carmaker Toyota is engulfed in for months now has gone global, after rumors began surfacing models in Europe and, more recently, China, will be ...
Toyota Recalls an Extra 1.1 Million Vehicles
28 Jan 2010, 09:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Yes, you read correctly. For the third time in less than six months and the second time in January 2010, Japanese carmaker Toyota announced another recall, involving no less than 1.1 million vehicle...
Toyota Victims Call for More Recalls
28 Jan 2010, 08:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the current events expected to bring down on Toyota a media-storm the like of which Audi experienced in the US some 25 years ago, more and more voices begin bombarding the Japanese carmaker wit...
Pontiac Vibe Officially Recalled
28 Jan 2010, 07:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As was to be expected, the avalanche of recalls coming from Japanese carmaker Toyota is affecting the Pontiac Vibe as well. The Vibe, built by GM in the now defunct New United Motor Manufacturing (N...
Toyota Recall and Suspension of Sales – What You Need to Know
28 Jan 2010, 07:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The snowballing effect caused by Toyota's two huge recalls and the suspension of sales for certain US models has prompted the Japanese manufacturer into releasing, for the second time in a week...
Toyota Shares Slide After Sales Halt
27 Jan 2010, 08:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The unprecedented decision by any carmaker in the US to stop sales and production of certain models on account on safety issues made Japanese manufacturer Toyota's shares drop, for the fourth c...
Toyota Suspends Sales of Recalled Models
27 Jan 2010, 07:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The braking problems Japanese carmaker Toyota is experiencing with millions of its vehicles have just gotten from bad to worse, as the manufacturer announced last night it is suspending sales of sel...