Toyota sales on the rise again

Toyota experienced its first year-on-year sales increase for 15 months in October, pushing up five per cent for a total of 640,000 global sales.

China was the company’s biggest growth market with sales up 45 per cent, while the results were also positive in Toyota’s home nation with a 15 per cent rise in Japan.
Toyota’s largest [...]

Prius could outsell Camry says US Toyota boss

US President of Toyota Motor Sales, Mr Jim Lentz, has said during an interview this week that he believes the company’s Prius hybrid model could beat long-time favourite Camry sedan as the company’s best selling product in the United States.

“I think long-term, Prius as a nameplate could even outsell Camry as a nameplate, into this [...]

Toybaru Sports Coupe update

Three weeks ago CarAdvice showed you renderings of what Subaru’s version of the FT-86 “Toybaru” sports car may look like, and the information about the car continues to trickle slowly out of Japan.

The latest news is that the Subaru will be around 50hp (37kW) more powerful than the FT-86, which could see the naturally-aspirated 2.0-litre [...]

Toyota Prius hybrid family on the way

As first reported by CarAdvice more than 12 months ago, Toyota is set to create a Prius hybrid family when it introduces a crossover or wagon model in around 12 months time, according to a report in Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper.

The new car could be the first high-volume vehicle to use a lithium-ion battery, which [...]

Toyota Camry Hybrid to save 1100 litres of fuel per year

The upcoming Australian made Toyota Camry Hybrid will save approximately 1100 litres of fuel in a year of city driving compared to locally made six-cylinder rivals.

Corporate manager of product planning, Mr Peter Evans, said Hybrid Camry’s fuel consumption and emissions would rival small and compact cars. 

The fuel savings during 20,000km of city driving will [...]

Toyota still world’s number one manufacturer

It seems a report published by IHS Global Insight last Thursday was a little premature, with official numbers today showing Toyota is still ahead of Volkswagen in sales volume.

Volkswagen’s third-quarter financial results revealed the manufacturer produced 4.4 million vehicles during the first nine months of the year – trumping Toyota’s 4.2 million units. However, VW’s [...]

Toyota may replace accelerator pedals following US floor mat recall

Following Toyota’s largest-ever recall of some 3.8 million vehicles, over the potential for a loose floor mat to force down the accelerator causing unintended acceleration, Toyota may soon fix or replace the accelerator pedals on up to 4 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles in the US.

US safety body the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) [...]

Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry & Technology picture tour

By Matt Brogan. Nishiku, Japan.
As we finish our coverage from Japan this week, we take a brief picture tour of the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology (TCM).
Established jointly by the 13 companies that make up the Toyota Group, on the site of the company’s original Spinning and Weaving factory, TCM houses a wide [...]

Volkswagen tops Toyota as world’s largest vehicle producer

Figures from automotive industry analyst IHS Global Insight show that Volkswagen has overtaken Toyota as the world’s largest vehicle producer for the first three-quarters of 2009.

VW made 4.4 million vehicles from January to September compared to the 4.2 million tallied in Toyota’s recent financial report.
However, Toyota today claimed that it has actually produced 4.9 million [...]

New Toyota Prado to go on sale later this month

Toyota’s new Prado, due to go on sale later this month, is being claimed as a “tougher, yet more refined” vehicle than the one it replaces.
The new Prado is also said to be more capable in all driving conditions while also being more comfortable, thanks to the addition of new premium features.

With state-of-the-art driver-assist technologies, [...]

Toyota Automobile Museum – picture tour

by Matt Brogan. Nagakute, Japan.
The Toyota Automobile Museum is just one of the two museums we’ll be presenting over the coming weeks as we wrap up our coverage from Japan.

TAM is located in Nagakute – just outside of Nagoya, Japan – and features a wide variety of cars not just from Toyota, but from a [...]

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