Toyota to Invest $800 Million in Argentina Plant
19 Sep 2013, 08:50 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Despite the inflation energy supply problems and harsh trade policies in Argentina, the automotive production has been growing steadily in recent years, with 764,000 vehicles produced last years. ...
Toyota Texas Celebrating One Millionth Truck Produced
18 Sep 2013, 15:46 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As predicted, the #1 million truck unit came out the assembly line today at Toyota’s Texas plant in the US. The milestone vehicle is a Toyota Tundra 1794 Edition finished in Sunset Bronze Mica...
Toyota Investing Over $180 Million in Russian Plant
18 Sep 2013, 09:59 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota Motor Corp has recently announced it will invest about $181 million (YEN18 billion) to expand production capacity at its Russian subsidiary located in St. Petersburg. The manufacturing pla...
Toyota Getting Honored by EPA
17 Sep 2013, 09:56 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota’s ideology now is based on offering people ecologic ways of transportation, green energy as well as a clean and organized environment to live in. Due to recycling 98 percent of its w...
Toyota Former President, Eiji Toyoda Dies at 100
17 Sep 2013, 09:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Member of Toyota’s founding family, former president and CEO, Eiji Toyoda (100-years-old) died recently from a heart failure at Toyota Memorial Hospital in Toyota City. Mr. Eiji Toyoda serv...
Toyota Thanking Employees and Families of Blue Springs Manufacturing Plant
8 Sep 2013, 11:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You know who’s 47-years-old and turns heads in Tupelo today? Of course, it could be Halle Berry, or Salma Hayek or even Cindy Crawford, but our blog doesn’t handle those kind of celebrit...
Toyota USA To Manufacture More Transmissions
30 Aug 2013, 17:44 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Since its opening in 1998, Toyota’s Buffalo, West Virginia engine plant has produced more than 10 million powertrain units (engine and transmission) and the subsidiary has recently announced i...
Toyota Is Preparing for 2015 Fuel Cell Vehicle Production
30 Aug 2013, 10:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota’s idea for a clean future transportation is represented by the fuel cell technology, which the automaker wants to start manufacturing from 2015. The fuel cell technology has been fir...
Interesting Graphic Shows Toyota Corolla as the Average Car
29 Aug 2013, 09:46 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Called “The World As 100 Cars”, the graph seen bellow shows best how the auto industry is divided and it also helps to reveal the average vehicle you can find on the streets. Accordin...
Toyota FJ Cruiser to Be Discontinued After 2014
21 Aug 2013, 08:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Earlier reports were telling us that Toyota won’t give up on body-on-frame trucks and SUVs too soon. However, the FJ Cruiser made an exception and was under consideration to get axed in the ne...
Toyota Kirloskar Letting Temporary Workers Go
6 Aug 2013, 13:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / With the car industry not going so well in India right now, Toyota Kirloskar was forced not to renew its contracts with the temporary workers in order to reach a 60 percent total working capacity. ...
Toyota Australia Getting $30 Million Boost To Secure Jobs
5 Aug 2013, 16:20 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota Australia will reportedly gain a AU$ 30 million Federal funding to secure the production until 2017. Not only that the funds will allow the Altona plant to begin the production of the Toyo...
Regular Cab Toyota Tacoma Dropped from 2015?
2 Aug 2013, 11:06 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It’s pretty clear that most Americans don’t buy pickup truck to haul pallets every day, as the regular cab ones are less and less looked for. Getting a pickup is mostly a fad, to have...
2014 Toyota Tundra Enters Production in Texas
1 Aug 2013, 16:53 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The all-new Toyota Tundra was completely engineered by Toyota Technical Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and redesigned by Calty Design research centers in Newport Beach, California. Design wise, t...
2014 Toyota Corolla Enters Production in North America
1 Aug 2013, 16:38 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Having been sold in 40 million units, the Toyota Corolla gained its reputation as world’s best-selling vehicle and this year marks its 47th year on the market. The latest model Toyota Corol...
2015 Toyota Yaris Could Be a Rebadged Mazda2
31 Jul 2013, 12:06 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Nothing official, but last year, Toyota and Mazda talked about a plan to work on and share the Mazda2 sub-compact, something similar with the GT 86/BRZ/FR-S joint project. Latest reports show tha...
Toyota Won’t Drop Body-On-Frame SUVs
30 Jul 2013, 08:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Despite the fact that consumers are more attracted to car-based crossovers that will see the mall’s parking lot instead of some rocky trail in the woods, body-on-frame SUVs still have their pu...
Want to See How a Toyota Auris Is Born?
29 Jul 2013, 17:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Remember when Toyota was tweeting the building process of a Toyota Auris in Burnaston, Derbyshire? Well, the project has ended an you can see it whole in one place. Building a vehicle from ground...
Toyota Adding 200 New Jobs at Indiana Plant
28 Jul 2013, 08:18 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota has recently declared to boost production of the Highlander model at its plant in Indiana. The production boost is said to start next year and this will also add 200 more workers to the fa...
Toyota Texas Plant Reaching 1 Million Trucks Produced
26 Jul 2013, 15:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / After ten years of operating, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas closes down to one million trucks produced. The one millionth unit is expected to roll off the assembly line on September 17 this ye...