Toyota Returning Lessees Get Cash Bonus from Chrysler
31 Jan 2010, 16:31 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / American carmaker announced new incentives for its customers, offering current Tundra, Tacoma and Sienna owners an additional $1,000 trade-in bonus cash with the purchase or lease of any new Chrysle...
Toyota Boss Apologizes for Massive Recall
31 Jan 2010, 15:47 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / As the recall crisis threatens to further damage the company's sales and delay an earnings recovery, Toyota President Akio Toyoda apologized for the recall of millions of vehicles around the wo...
Japanese Mayhem: Honda Announces 646,000 Unit Recall
29 Jan 2010, 15:40 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / If you’re wondering what went wrong with the Japanese auto industry all of a sudden, the answer may be lying in some of the top secret research files of the troubled automakers or in some seri...
Toyota Shares Drop for the Sixth Day
29 Jan 2010, 14:06 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / This year does not seem to be one of Toyota’s best, as the Japanese manufacturer becomes more and more controversial by the day. Impressive recall numbers come up every 24 hours and it seems l...
China Happy with Toyota, Ford Recall
29 Jan 2010, 12:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Chinese government responded to recent recall and production stop announcement by Japanese Toyota and American Ford manufacturers, saying it welcomes the measures. "It is a good thing. ...
Toyota Fallout: Ford Stops Transit Classic Production in China
29 Jan 2010, 10:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just as a precaution, American manufacturer Ford and its Chinese partner, Jiangling Motors, announced the halt in production of the diesel version of the Transit Classic. The reason behind the decis...
Win a 2010 Toyota Prius On Facebook
29 Jan 2010, 09:13 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Social networking website Facebook is getting used by more and more carmakers or automotive-related companies in promoting their campaigns, vehicles and marketing initiatives. Recently, the 30 deale...
Toyota Incidents in Europe: 26 (and Counting?)
29 Jan 2010, 09:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After yesterday the European arm of Japanese carmaker Toyota announced it will begin recalling cars equipped with faulty accelerators on the Old Continent, the number of related incidents was reveal...
Toyota Faulty Accelerator Fix
29 Jan 2010, 08:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With Toyota's biggest recall ever far from over, the Japanese carmaker released today details on how it plans to fix the faulty accelerator problems which led to this unprecedented measure. Acc...
Hyundai Posts Outstanding Q4
29 Jan 2010, 08:57 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Hyundai Motor reported a 2009 Q4 operating profit which exceeds analysts’ expectations, thus indicating that a new path may lie ahead for the world’s 4th biggest automaker (if we conside...
Official: Toyota Recall Begins in Europe
28 Jan 2010, 14:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Following almost a day of rumors, speculation and unofficial confirmation, Japanese carmaker Toyota announced through its UK media website it will begin a recall of its vehicles, based on possible a...
Toyota May Cut 750 UK Jobs
28 Jan 2010, 14:18 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Toyota’s current situation is a perfect example that it is much easier to get to the top than to maintain that position. After managing to surpass GM as the world’s biggest automotive pr...
Toyota's Recall to Go Global, Europe and China Affected
28 Jan 2010, 11:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just like a virus, the accelerator nightmare Japanese carmaker Toyota is engulfed in for months now has gone global, after rumors began surfacing models in Europe and, more recently, China, will be ...
Ford Also Announces Incentives for Toyota Customers
28 Jan 2010, 10:50 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / It seems that American automakers are ganging up on Toyota, as Ford announced that it will also offer incentives for Toyota customers, just like General Motors. If you are working for the marketing ...
UAW, Teamsters to Rally for NUMMI
28 Jan 2010, 10:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Two of the strongest unions in the US will join forces on Thursday, January 28, in front of the Embassy of Japan in Washington to protest against the closure of the New United Motor Manufacturing (N...
GM Offers Incentives to Toyota and Lexus Owners
28 Jan 2010, 10:06 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Toyota managed to get itself in a lot of trouble and nowadays it seems that the Japanese automaker is sinking deeper and deeper into it. And if you’d expect somebody to lay a helping hand, you...
Toyota Recalls an Extra 1.1 Million Vehicles
28 Jan 2010, 09:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Yes, you read correctly. For the third time in less than six months and the second time in January 2010, Japanese carmaker Toyota announced another recall, involving no less than 1.1 million vehicle...
Toyota Victims Call for More Recalls
28 Jan 2010, 08:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the current events expected to bring down on Toyota a media-storm the like of which Audi experienced in the US some 25 years ago, more and more voices begin bombarding the Japanese carmaker wit...
Pontiac Vibe Officially Recalled
28 Jan 2010, 07:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As was to be expected, the avalanche of recalls coming from Japanese carmaker Toyota is affecting the Pontiac Vibe as well. The Vibe, built by GM in the now defunct New United Motor Manufacturing (N...
Toyota Recall and Suspension of Sales – What You Need to Know
28 Jan 2010, 07:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The snowballing effect caused by Toyota's two huge recalls and the suspension of sales for certain US models has prompted the Japanese manufacturer into releasing, for the second time in a week...