After a month in which auto sales were goosed by high incentives launched by Toyota, some automakers are downplaying the prospect of a full-out incentive war. It’s more like a skirmish, they say. Full story…
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Mazda Motor Corporation have reached an agreement on the supply under license of hybrid technology used in the Toyota Prius.
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This month's US new vehicle sales (including fleet sales) are expected to be 1,119,700 units, a 30.9 percent increase from March 2009 and a 43.9 percent increase from February 2010, according to Edmunds.com.
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Lawyers suing Toyota across the United States over cars alleged to have raced out of control lobbied a special judicial panel to merge the scores of cases and assign them to one or two courthouses for pretrial proceedings.
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Toyota Manufacturing UK (TMUK) is to go ahead with its planned shutdown next week as it looks to compensate for the ending of scrappage schemes across Europe.
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Toyota may halve production output at its UK plant from August to improve profitability at the factory according to a report in the Japanese Nikkei business daily.
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Toyota will reduce output capacity at its UK plant in August, a report said. Toyota will shut down one of the two assembly lines and cut capacity by about 120,000 units from 290,000 units.
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Toronto - The need for sustainable transportation is greater than ever, and as Toyota continues to prepare for transportation that relies on less fossil fuel, today it announced the first phase of a national Canadian partnership for real-world demonstrations of the all-new Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid vehicle (Prius PHV).
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Toyota's North America production and engineering company said today it has formed a Quality Task Force to help restore Toyota's quality reputation. A key part of it: asserting U.S. consumer interests on future safety recall issues. The U.S.
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Toyota has appointed a top executive, Didier Leroy, as its European chief quality officer In a move to tackle quality problems more quickly.
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Michigan's attorney general on Wednesday subpoenaed Toyota Motor Corp.'s U.S. arm for information on recent safety recalls regarding unintended acceleration.
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Michigan's attorney general on Wednesday subpoenaed Toyota Motor Corp.'s U.S. arm for information on recent safety recalls regarding unintended acceleration.
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A federal judicial panel on Thursday will begin considering whether more than 80 lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. can be consolidated into fewer cases and, if so, which courts should handle the litigation.
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Toyota Motor has lifted its global production plans by 1% to 7.57m vehicles for 2010, anticipating better demand in Japan and other Asian markets, a source at a group company has said.
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Toyota has named its new European chief quality officer following the decision to create the post in each of its key geographical regions.
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Toyota has lifted its global production plans by 1 percent to 7.57 million vehicles for 2010, anticipating better demand in Japan and other Asian markets, a source at a group company said.
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The March 9 crash of a Toyota Prius in New York appears to be a case of driver error, police said.
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Toyota Motor Corp. lowered its output forecast for North America this year by 60,000 vehicles in the wake of its recall-driven production and sales suspension, a source at a group company said.
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