16 days ago
A recent plunge in the yen, brought about by the economic and monetary policies of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who took office late last year, is a boon for Japanese exporters such as Toyota.
21 days ago
Toyota Motor Corp., the Japanese automaker, reports quarterly financial results.
70 days ago
Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 209,000 FJ Cruiser SUVs because their front seatbelt retractors could fall off.
78 days ago
- 1918 Sakichi Toyoda sets up loom production company.- 1937 Sakichi's son Kiichiro Toyoda sets up Toyota to make cars.- 1957 Toyota exports vehicles to the U.S. for the first time.- 1981...
79 days ago
Like other conservative Japanese companies, Toyota has been far more insular than its Western counterparts, and had been closed in the past to the idea of board members from outside company ranks.
80 days ago
Toyota has sold 5 million hybrids globally since 1997, 500,000 of those in Europe with sales in the region hitting 100,000 last year alone.
88 days ago
Federal safety regulators are deciding if they'll investigate a complaint that the steering can fail on the Toyota Prius.
98 days ago
During their investigation, the attorneys general found that poor communication between Toyota's headquarters in Japan and its U.S. operations had contributed to the problem.
98 days ago
State attorneys general sued Toyota after it recalled 14 million vehicles globally in 2009 and 2010 for accelerating without warning.
101 days ago
Toyota insists it's instead trying to produce vehicles where they're sold, and boost the purchase of locally produced auto parts to better adapt to a fluctuating currency.
105 days ago
Back in 2007, Toyota trumpeted its bulked-up Tundra as a game-changer that would cut into Detroit's dominance of the U.S. pickup truck market.
106 days ago
Truck-buyer loyalty gives companies like Ford -which started building pickups in 1925, 40 years before Toyota sold its first pickup in America - a real advantage.
108 days ago
For the fiscal year through March 2013, Toyota is now expecting to sell 8.85 million vehicles, up from the previous forecast for 8.75 million vehicles, because of strong North American sales.
111 days ago
Toyota sales jumped on the strength of the Prius hybrid cars and wagon, which rose 36 percent, and the new Avalon sedan, which was up 50 percent.
111 days ago
TOP OF THE HEAP: Toyota's sales jumped 27 percent, while Ford was up 22 percent.
114 days ago
Toyota is recalling 907,000 vehicles, mostly Corolla models, around the world for faulty air bags and another 385,000 Lexus IS luxury cars for defective wipers.
116 days ago
From the middle of last year, it was hit by another kind of problem - a widespread boycott of Japanese products, including Toyota cars, in China over a territorial dispute.
120 days ago
Toyota Motor Corp. and BMW Group are working together on next-generation batteries for green vehicles called "lithium-air" as their collaboration, first announced in late 2011, moves ahead in fuel...
126 days ago
Toyota Motor Corp. says it has settled what was to be the first of hundreds of wrongful death lawsuits involving problems of sudden, unintended acceleration by its vehicles.
128 days ago
Toyota is on a roll after two difficult years, when it was hit by a string of safety recalls and then by the earthquake in Japan.
129 days ago
Toyota doesn't offer an optional rear-view camera, which is now available on every other competitor, or safety features like blind-spot monitors, which are found on the Chevrolet Cruze and others.
129 days ago
Toyota doesn't offer an optional rearview camera, which is now available on every other competitor, or safety features like blind-spot monitors, which are found on the Chevrolet Cruze and others.
130 days ago
GM was the top-selling automaker for more than seven decades before losing the title to Toyota in 2008.
134 days ago
Hybrid models are differentiated by blue-trimmed Toyota logos at the front and rear, hybrid badges on the trunk lid and front doors, and a hidden exhaust outlet.
137 days ago
Japan's three biggest automakers - Toyota, Nissan and Honda - say their vehicle sales in China fell last year amid a territorial dispute that prompted Chinese consumers to boycott Japanese products.
