Toyota Motor Corp. will repair about 1.53 million Avalons and other vehicles globally for problems with the brake master cylinder seal and fuel pump wiring, with most of those to be recalled in the United States and Japan.
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It didn't take long for Red Bull Racing to announce Kasey Kahne would be finishing the year in the No. 83 Toyota.
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Toyota Australia is set to export its 500,000th vehicle to Saudi Arabia tomorrow (21 October).
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Volkswagen may sell a record 7 million vehicles worldwide this year, reducing the sales gap with Toyota to just over 1 million units.
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German motorsport web site motorsport-aktuel has posted a news on Wednesday, saying that car manufacturer Volkswagen could enter the top American stock-car scene just like Toyota did a few years ago.
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German motorsport web site motorsport-aktuel has posted a news on Wednesday, saying that car manufacturer Volkswagen could enter the top American stock-car scene just like Toyota did a few years ago.
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Toyota's next Prius-badged hybrid looks a lot like the standard Prius, only bigger. The company posted a photo on its Prius Facebook page last week showing a Prius with the silhouette of a larger, MPV-sized vehicle behind it.
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Toyota chief Akio Toyoda has denied the company is looking to increase production overseas at the expense of its domestic factories as the surging yen makes it more costly to produce vehicles in Japan.
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Toyota Motor plans to produce the Prius hybrid model in Thailand, possibly from next year, following its launch at the Bangkok motor show in November. Thailand will become the third country to produce the model, after Japan and China.
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Ryuichi Katsumata, one of Japan's top Toyota dealers, brings a new twist to old traditions in a land where selling cars can be very, very different from what occurs in the United States. Heir to the founding family of Chiba Toyopet Co.
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COPY EDITOR CYNTHIA L. OROSCO: Who says hybrids aren't fun to drive? So yeah, this car looks like a water bug and you can hear it working pretty hard when going up hills/inclines, when trying to get up to highway speed and while passing.
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In today's News Brake, West Coast editor Mark Vaughn tells what it is like to live with the Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car, an update on NASCAR action and Toyota's Prius family is growing ... But Wait, There's More!
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Tesla Motors has entered into a Phase 1 Contract Services Agreement with Toyota Motor Corporation ("TMC") for the development of a validated powertrain system, including battery, power electronics module, motor, gearbox and associated software, which will be integrated into an electric vehicle version of the RAV4.
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New vehicle sales in Malaysia in the first nine months of 2010 rose by 14.4% to 454,700 units, according to data released by Perodua - the country's second national car maker now controlled by Daihatsu Motor, itself 51% owned by Toyota.
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Fiat, Toyota and Ford led a sixth straight monthly drop in European car sales as demand wanes after the ending or winding down of government trade-in incentives. Registrations in the region fell 9.2 percent in September. Nine-month sales dropped 3.
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Toyota has told its dealers to fix some 2010 Corolla and Matrix models because an accessory engine belt may deteriorate and detach, according to a notice to dealers. About 10,750 vehicles may be affected by the "limited service campaign."
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Toyota, continuing to recover from a recall crisis, plans a new national advertising campaign for the Toyota brand that will highlight safety. Don Esmond, senior vice president of automotive operations for Toyota's U.S.
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Toyota will reveal another member of the Prius family in January at the Detroit auto show. It will be completely new and different in size from the current model.
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Working for Toyota Motor Corp. might actually make you healthier. Both smoking rates and obesity levels have come down among Toyota employees over the past four years.
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Toyota is to introduce a new vehicle lining material that is made 30% from sugarcane to reduce fuel consumption.
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