Toyota Division's SEMA show offerings are truck heavy, which is good news for anyone whose eyes still hurt from that George Barris Prius Toyota showed a few years ago.
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Toyota Motor Corp. expects industry-wide U.S. light vehicle sales to range between 10.3 million and 10.4 million units in 2009, and top 11 million in 2010, the automaker's U.S. brand chief told Reuters today.
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Fifth-generation Camry, one of the used market's most reliable family sedans--but watch alignment and automatic transmission on early models.
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Panasonic plans to reduce its equity stake in a battery joint venture with Toyota for hybrid vehicles to speed its move to turn Sanyo Electric into a subsidiary, sources close to the matter have said.
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Toyota Motor is likely to report a smaller than expected operating loss for the six months to September thanks to recovering sales and a weaker yen, Japanese media reports said on Thursday.
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Toyota Motor Corp. will send letters on Friday to 3.
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Toyota Motor Corp. will send letters on Friday to 3.
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Toyota - launched in Korea only last week - has enjoyed unprecedented sales for a new entrant in its first week of business operations.
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A road trial of locally modified Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) is under way in Australia with a new twist - using the battery as a home energy store when the car is not in use.
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Joe Gibbs Racing announced, effective with next week's race at Texas Motorspeedway, that Dave Rogers would become Kyle Busch's crew chief in the #18 Toyota.
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Team reserve Kamui Kobayashi will again replace Toyota's regular race driver Timo Glock as the 2009 season concludes in Abu Dhabi this weekend.
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Federal highway safety inspectors have found that the Lexus ES 350 sedan involved in a crash that triggered Toyota's largest recall had an accelerator pedal design that could increase the risk of its being obstructed by a floor mat.
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The news remains unofficial, but a well-connected figure on Sunday all but confirmed the composition of Williams' driver line-up for 2010 as Rosberg looks likely to head to Brawn, while Kazuki Nakajima is out of favour at Williams due to the forthcoming parting of ways with the Japanese driver's backer Toyota.
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Like many more recent Hyundai models, the Sonata attracts scores of shoppers with its value-based pricing, nice-looking body and promise of lengthy warranty coverage. The fifth-generation of the Korean automaker's elemental family car is now on sale, doing battle with the likes of the Ford Fusion, Honda Accord and Toyota Camry. In fact, it's already gone through a mid-cycle facelift.
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Boss wants successor to Celica – badged FT-86 – to boost Toyota’s image
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Fuji Heavy Industries president Ikuo Mori has said the Subaru maker will aim to launch a hybrid in 2012 and is eyeing jointly developing zero-emission electric vehicles with top shareholder Toyota.
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Nissan Motor Co. CEO Carlos Ghosn has ruled out a stand-alone hybrid like the Toyota Prius as part of his strategy for adding gasoline-electric drivetrains.
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Nissan is putting its new model based on the Qazana concept into production at Sunderland and there were hopes for two other UK-based Japanese car manufacturing operations at the Tokyo motor show - Honda and Toyota said separately that they may increase overseas output as a stronger yen makes exports less competitive.
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Honda would consider launching an environmentally friendly sports car when it has enough cash available, CEO Takanobu Ito said. Ito said Honda's sports car would not be like the Lexus LFA supercar unveiled by by Toyota Motor Corp.
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