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Toyota will re-enter the small minivan segment in Europe with the Verso-S. The model will debut at the Paris auto show on September 30 and will go on sale early next year. Full story...

EXECUTIVE EDITOR ROGER HART: For a small truck offering some full-size features, this is a good one. For less than $30,000, this truck will do what a large percentage of all truck buyers need. Full story...

EXECUTIVE EDITOR ROGER HART: For a small truck offering some full-size features, this is a good one. For less than $30,000, this truck will do what a large percentage of all truck buyers need. Full story...

TORONTO - A new era in sustainable mobility begins in Ontario, as Toyota Canada delivered a Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid (Prius PHV) to its provincial testing partners at a ceremony today. Toyota Canada and provincial partners the Province of Ontario (Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Transportation), Ontario Power Generation, the City of Toronto and the AUTO21 Network of Centres of Excellence were all on hand to officially 'plug-in' to the future. Full story...

Toyota Motor Corp. today issued a recall of 1.1 million Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles from the 2005-08 model years after more than 1,000 complaints of stalling. Full story...

Toyota Motor Sales USA has announced "a voluntary safety recall" of about 1.13m 2005-2008 model year Toyota Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles and 199,963 Pontiac Vibes built for GM to replace engine control modules (ECM) that may have been improperly manufactured. Toyota Canada also plans a voluntary recall of 136,000 Corolla and 64,300 Matrix models. Full story...

Toyota Motor Sales has announced "a voluntary safety recall" of about 1.13m 2005-2008 model year Toyota Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles sold in North America to replace some engine control modules (ECM) that may have been improperly manufactured. Full story...

Toyota Motor Sales has announced "a voluntary safety recall" of about 1.13m 2005-2008 model year Toyota Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles sold in North America to replace some engine control modules (ECM) that may have been improperly manufactured. Full story...

Toyota Motor Corp. and General Motors Co. today announced recalls of 1.3 million vehicles from the 2005-2008 model years following complaints of engine stalling. Full story...

Toyota wants to reach cumulative sales of 5m hybrid vehicles by the middle of this decade. Full story...

TORONTO, ON - Toyota Canada Inc., today announced that it will conduct a voluntary safety recall involving approximately 136,000 2005-2008 Model Year Toyota Corolla and 64,300 of the same model year Corolla Matrix vehicles sold in Canada to address some Engine Control Modules (ECM) that may have been improperly manufactured. No other Toyota or Lexus vehicles are involved in this recall. Full story...

Japanese car manufacturer Toyota could confirm its World Rally Championship entry in the coming weeks. Full story...

Owners of Toyota's Prius hybrid will be able to buy a device to alert pedestrians that they are approaching from next week. Toyota is the first carmaker to market such a device, designed specifically for the third-generation Prius. Full story...

Toyota Motor luxury unit Lexus has ended production of the SC430 coupe-cabriolet after almost a decade. It was the last Lexus to use the 4.3-litre V8. Full story...

New vehicle sales in Thailand grew by 52% to 65,672 units in July, compared with 43,156 units a year earlier, according to data compiled by Toyota Motor (Thailand). Full story...

VW, Ford and Toyota are increasing output in Russia and rolling out new models, which they'll display at the Moscow auto show starting Wednesday. Russian sales will advance 13 percent in 2010 to 1. Full story...

Toyota wants to reach cumulative sales of 5 million hybrid vehicles in the early part of this decade. Toyota, the pioneer in gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles, said earlier this month it had sold more than 2. Full story...

Toyota said on Wednesday it wants to reach cumulative sales of 5 million hybrid vehicles in the early part of this decade. Toyota, the pioneer in gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles, said earlier this month it had sold more than 2. Full story...

In News Brake: A look ahead to Hyundai's future product pipeline, NHTSA investigates the Toyota Corolla, and we take another test drive of the Ferrari 458 Italia . . . But Wait, There's More! Full story...

Hybrid to get optional speaker to prevent pedestrian incidents.

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