Toyota
China tougher market for U.S. car sales
November 05, 2007General Motors Corp. in China is seeing increased competition from Volkswagen, Toyota and Honda. In the last decade, GM has made hundreds of millions of dollars profit in China, where it has sold more Buicks than in the United States, the Los Angeles...
Australia facing loss of Toyota operations
October 29, 2007Toyota may soon pull its automobile operations out of Australia as rising interest rates have pushed the Aussie dollar to record highs, a report says. Facing such a financial crisis and a possible withdrawal from Australia, the Asian manufacturer...
Ford lands high-profile Toyota executive
October 12, 2007James D. Farley, a high profile executive with Toyota and considered a rising star in the business, has joined the Ford Motor Co. Farley, 45, who has served as Toyota’s group vice president of its Lexus Division, will be Ford’s first chief...
Toyota to slow U.S. factory expansion
June 20, 2007Top executives at Toyota Motor Corp. Hiroshi Okuda, the architect of Toyota's aggressive expansion outside Japan, and Shoichiro Toyoda, a senior member of Toyota's founding family are concerned the automaker has built too many factories in the United...
Toyota's global hybrid sales top million
June 12, 2007A decade after the first Prius went on sale, Toyota's global sales of gas-and-electric-powered vehicles totaled 1.047 million as of the end of May, of them nearly 702,000 were sold outside Japan, underlining the Japanese automaker's lead in "green...
Toyota tops GM in 2006 global sales
June 12, 2007Toyota Motor Corp. became the world's biggest automaker by sales volume in 2006 outselling General Motors Corp GM by about 128,000 units, with 8,808,000 units, leading industry paper Automotive News said. The Automotive News Data Center includes sales...
Toyota in talks to build new China plant
June 11, 2007In the first quarter of 2007 Toyota became the world's top-selling automaker-overtaking US rival General Motors. Now the Corporation is negotiating with one of it’s venture partners in China about the possibility of building another plant there...
Toyota will join European auto lobby ACEA in 2008
June 11, 2007Toyota which is an observer in a number of the European automotive industry association ACEA working groups, will become a full member of the association starting in January. Sergio Marchionne, the ACEA President and Fiat's CEO, welcomes Toyota Motor...
Toyota to built new SUV plant in Mississippi
February 27, 2007Gov. Haley Barbour plans to announce Tuesday that Toyota Motor Corp. will build a manufacturing plant in northeast Mississippi, a person familiar with the topic of the news conference said, speaking on condition of anonymity because no announcement had...
Toyota top selling car in Singapore for fifth straight year
January 05, 2007Singapore (dpa) - Toyota emerged as the top selling car in Singapore for the fifth straight year in 2006 followed by rival Nissan, the Motor Traders Association (MTA) said on Friday. In a switch, Honda reclaimed third place from Hyundai, which slipped...