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911 Call: Runaway Toyota Prius
911 Call: Runaway Toyota Prius

11 Mar 2010, 11:25 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Unfortunately, reports concerning the stuck accelerator pedal on various Toyota models keep coming and although the Japanese manufacturer says its recall goes according to the plan, new incidents oc...

 
Electric Car Maker Planning to Buy NUMMI
Electric Car Maker Planning to Buy NUMMI

11 Mar 2010, 10:20 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Last year, General Motors announced its decision to walk away from the NUMMI deal and leave Toyota to decide the fate of the joint venture. Just as expected, the Japanese manufacturer decided to shu...

 
Toyota TAPESTRY Program Celebrates 20 Years
Toyota TAPESTRY Program Celebrates 20 Years

10 Mar 2010, 15:47 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / For the past 20 years, Toyota Motor Sale USA and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) have been promoting education through the Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for Science Teachers program. Just ...

 
Brake Override Systems Explained
Brake Override Systems Explained

10 Mar 2010, 15:40 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Brake overriding is a thing since 1988, when BMW introduced this technology, yet it came to prominence in the 2010s after Toyota's sticky throttle pedal saga

 
Toyota Tops Some Sales Rankings
Toyota Tops Some Sales Rankings

10 Mar 2010, 14:01 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Do you wonder how Toyota's doing after the recent trust issues regarding the brand? Despite the recent image problems Toyota had to face since its massive recalls, the Japanese car manufacturer...

 
Toyota Denies Another Prius Recall
Toyota Denies Another Prius Recall

10 Mar 2010, 11:30 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Toyota officials denied today a report by the Wall Street Journal, which stated that the last generation Prius will be recalled to fix an existing accelerator problem. According to Toyota, &ldquo...

 
Toyota 4Runner Tops IIHS Crash Tests
Toyota 4Runner Tops IIHS Crash Tests

10 Mar 2010, 11:21 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / With Toyotas currently seen as unsafe vehicles lately - with the recalls and all - this following news should be great for the Japanese car manufacturer: the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (...

 
Toyota Expands Tundra Recall
Toyota Expands Tundra Recall

10 Mar 2010, 10:59 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Toyota seems to be unable to catch a break. According to Reuters, the Japanese car manufacturer will extend its Tundra pick-up recall to cover the entire US. The recall only affects 2000 to 2003 mod...

 
Toyota Says Taxpayer Dollars Are Used Against It by GM
Toyota Says Taxpayer Dollars Are Used Against It by GM

10 Mar 2010, 10:26 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / As you might remember, a while ago General Motors, Toyota’s old partner from NUMMI, decided to kick the Japanese while they were down and offer incentives to all Toyota and Lexus owners in the...

 
Toyota Prius Posts New Sales Record in the UK
Toyota Prius Posts New Sales Record in the UK

10 Mar 2010, 10:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / In a weird and impossible way to understand, Toyota Prius sales are continuously increasing in certain markets around the world, in spite of all reports presenting dramatic crashes caused by the veh...

 
Toyota UK Freezes Salaries in 2010
Toyota UK Freezes Salaries in 2010

10 Mar 2010, 10:02 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Following Toyota Manufacturing UK’s annual salary review process between company representatives and employee representatives, the company announced a number of changes set to take place this ...

 
One More "Stuck" Prius Hits Stone Wall
One More "Stuck" Prius Hits Stone Wall

10 Mar 2010, 09:29 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / While Toyota strives to repair all faulty models and get rid of the stuck accelerator pedal glitch that seriously damaged its image, reports from all around the world with accidents caused by this p...

 
Car Industry's 2010 Face Off...
Car Industry's 2010 Face Off...

10 Mar 2010, 08:47 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ... If 2009 was the year of thundering bankruptcies and an almost total collapse of the American car industry - while the Japanese more or less flourished - 2010 seems to be the exact opposite. Gene...

 
Mazda to Install Brake Override Systems on New Models
Mazda to Install Brake Override Systems on New Models

10 Mar 2010, 08:37 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Toyota's devastating recall that affected millions of cars sold all over the world scared the hell out of several other automakers which were more or less involved in this serious problem. Some...

 
Toyota Proves Professor Gilbert Is a Fraud
Toyota Proves Professor Gilbert Is a Fraud

9 Mar 2010, 13:21 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / As you might remember, a while ago we presented to you a very intriguing video released by ABC news showing how a Toyota vehicle which experiences unintended acceleration behaves. The video shows Da...

 
Toyota Europe Will Not Delay Model Launches
Toyota Europe Will Not Delay Model Launches

9 Mar 2010, 11:03 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / It has been speculated a while ago that the European launch of new Toyota models, like the Auris Hybrid, might be postponed, in order to give the automaker some time to address its acceleration and ...

 
Australian 2010 Toyota Rukus to Debut in 2010
Australian 2010 Toyota Rukus to Debut in 2010

9 Mar 2010, 10:51 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Leaving the company's global problems aside - we're here talking about the huge recall Toyota is trying to deal with, the Japanese manufacturer is preparing the debut of the so-called Ruku...

 
Toyota President Predicts Sales Growth in March
Toyota President Predicts Sales Growth in March

9 Mar 2010, 09:55 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Though it seems that Toyota Motor Corp’s image problems refuse to go away, people still believe in its recovery. According to autonews.com, the company’s president stated that he believe...

 
Toyota Prius Accelerator Problems
Toyota Prius Accelerator Problems

9 Mar 2010, 08:27 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / After announcing an over-8-million-car recall worldwide, it would be an understatement to say that Toyota had a lot of fixing to do. The Japanese automaker needed to address the accelerator pedal pr...

 
Toyota to Introduce 5 FCHVs in Germany by 2011
Toyota to Introduce 5 FCHVs in Germany by 2011

8 Mar 2010, 09:34 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Despite recent media reports that question the quality of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, the Japanese manufacturer still has the strong will to survive on the market. Following a recent agreement betwe...