Zonta Gifted Toyota TF104 Race Car
17 Mar 2011, 08:38 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / We're not sure what former F1 driver Ricardo Zonta got for Christmas last year, but we can bet a decent amount of money on the fact that Toyota's recent gift topped it. According to a r...
Toyota US Operations Not Affected by Japan Quake
17 Mar 2011, 08:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Almost a week after the devastation that struck the northeastern coast of Japan gave another devastating blow to the operations of auto maker Toyota, the company finally managed to come up with a re...
Toyota Dream Art Car Contest UK Winners Announced
17 Mar 2011, 06:28 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Back in October last year, we presented you the Toyota Dream Car Art Competition, an international initiative aimed at allowing children to express their vision on the car of the future. Now, Toyota...
Toyota Japan Halts Production Until March 22
16 Mar 2011, 11:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The initial assessment made by Japanese manufacturer Toyota following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern coast of Japan on Friday seems to have been much too optimistic...
Japan's Auto Makers Come Together in Support of Relief Efforts
14 Mar 2011, 17:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On Friday, Japan was hit by the most powerful earthquake in its history and the fifth strongest one in the world in the last century. The quake itself, as it hit a country well prepared for such dis...
VW on Track to Become No. 1
14 Mar 2011, 16:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Without any doubt, the plan announced by German group Volkswagen at the height of the economic crisis, in 2009, is working like a charm. Set on becoming the largest auto maker in the world by 2018, ...
Toyota Plants Remain Closed Following Quake
14 Mar 2011, 08:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The huge damage caused by the tsunami which followed the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan on Friday is yet to be fully assessed, but one thing becomes clear: the full effects of the quake ...
Japan Quake to Hit Auto Industry
12 Mar 2011, 10:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After one of the most powerful earthquakes in recorded history hit Japan yesterday, the country is still trying to make full sense of the damage caused by the cataclysm which, according to scientist...
Toyota Restructures Global Operations
9 Mar 2011, 15:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As part of the new global strategy announced this week, Japanese auto maker is proceeding to what will surely be one of the biggest overhauls of its global corporate operations in history. With ...
Toyota Learns from Mistakes, Announces New Global Strategy
9 Mar 2011, 15:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Severely battered in 2009 by the economic crisis, slammed to the ground by a massive recall in 2010 and chased for nearly two years by German automotive group Volkswagen, the Japanese from Toyota de...
Toyota Sold Over 3 Million Hybrids Worldwide
8 Mar 2011, 08:58 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has announced today that global cumulative sales of all its hybrid vehicles have hit a new milestone mark, with more than 3.03 million units delivered worldwide as of ...
Toyota Recalls 22,000 Models on TPMS Issue
7 Mar 2011, 15:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In an ideal world, where Toyota wouldn't have had to make the largest recall in the history of mankind last year (a recall which extended its ugly effects into 2011 as well), the following news...
Ford Throws Global Cars in Toyota's Domestic Paradise
7 Mar 2011, 12:15 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Japan is still a forbidden land for many carmakers out there and, although some of them have tried to launch models in the country, it's still Toyota the one that leads the field there. Ford wa...
Toyota to Rely on Hybrids in Europe
7 Mar 2011, 09:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Having presented at this year's auto shows more than a fair share of hybrids (both at the North American International Auto Show and in Geneva), Japanese auto maker Toyota is making a statement...
Toyota Delays Etios Liva Launch
4 Mar 2011, 15:46 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Ever since Toyota presented the Etios sedan, the carmaker has also stepped in front of the media to state that buyers should expect more from the hatchback version that would be called Liva. The car...
Google's Driverless Toyota Prius Is More of a Race Car
4 Mar 2011, 15:12 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The fact that Google is pondering a possible involvement in the automotive industry is not a new thing, but every time the search engine giant makes a new prototype, it really manages to scare the h...
GM Leading Discount Spending in the US
3 Mar 2011, 12:55 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Incentives have always been a big part of how carmakers do business in the US, as a substantial consumer market makes competition between companies greater than on other markets. It appears that dis...
The Force of Unintended Acceleration. Toyota Parody
3 Mar 2011, 10:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If the words unintended and acceleration put together mean anything to you, then you have a pretty good idea of what they mean. For two years now, for reasons as mysterious as the pyramids themselve...
Free Toyotas for Nonprofits
3 Mar 2011, 09:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Having started a program it calls “100 Cars for Good” in the beginning of the week, Japanese auto maker Toyota is planning to give away 100 of its vehicles, over a period of 100 days, to...
Toyota Nearly Doubles Sales in February
3 Mar 2011, 08:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The month of February ended in a not so happy note for Japanese automaker Toyota, who was forced, once again, to announce a major recall because of the same problem that had caused the storm in 2010...