Toyota Preps for Sales Drop
2 Feb 2010, 08:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On January 26, Japanese carmaker Toyota hinted to its sales target for 2010: 7.4 million units to be sold in the new year, a 6 percent increase compared to the better than expected 2009. The forecas...
Lexus GX460 Goes on Sale in the Middle East
2 Feb 2010, 08:29 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / While its parent company Toyota struggles to find the best way to fix its global safety recall, Lexus continues its normal business with a new launch, this time in the Middle East. The company has j...
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...
Toyota to Take the Wraps Off Gs Performance Division
1 Feb 2010, 11:00 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Currently involved in what seems to be one of the world's largest recalls ever, Toyota is also preparing to launch its own performance unit that will be responsible of creating performance-orie...
Toyota Recall Affects Peugeot 107 and Citroen C1
1 Feb 2010, 09:31 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Following Toyota’s massive recall that recently went global, the PSA Peugeot Citroen Group announced it will recall nearly 100,000 cars manufactured at the plant where the French group and To...
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...
Toyota Returning Lessees Get Cash Bonus from Chrysler
31 Jan 2010, 16:31 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / American carmaker announced new incentives for its customers, offering current Tundra, Tacoma and Sienna owners an additional $1,000 trade-in bonus cash with the purchase or lease of any new Chrysle...
Toyota Boss Apologizes for Massive Recall
31 Jan 2010, 15:47 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / As the recall crisis threatens to further damage the company's sales and delay an earnings recovery, Toyota President Akio Toyoda apologized for the recall of millions of vehicles around the wo...
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 Fallout: Ford Stops Transit Classic Production in China
29 Jan 2010, 10:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just as a precaution, American manufacturer Ford and its Chinese partner, Jiangling Motors, announced the halt in production of the diesel version of the Transit Classic. The reason behind the decis...
Win a 2010 Toyota Prius On Facebook
29 Jan 2010, 09:13 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Social networking website Facebook is getting used by more and more carmakers or automotive-related companies in promoting their campaigns, vehicles and marketing initiatives. Recently, the 30 deale...
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...
Hyundai Posts Outstanding Q4
29 Jan 2010, 08:57 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Hyundai Motor reported a 2009 Q4 operating profit which exceeds analysts’ expectations, thus indicating that a new path may lie ahead for the world’s 4th biggest automaker (if we conside...