Toyota's plug-in capable Prius is getting a big boost for testing, hitting the open road a year ahead of schedule. Several hundred of the PHEVs will b...
AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 09.28.2008 | Business
TOKYO — Toyota lowered its global sales target for 2009 by 700,000 vehicles to 9.7 million Thursday, showing that even one of the world's most d...
Steve Parker | Posted 09.27.2008 | Business
Should Chrysler, or two of the car-makers or even all three go bust, then, this time, the American people will pay the price, both literally and figuratively.
AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 09.25.2008 | Business
TOKYO — Toyota is raising its prices for the Prius and Harrier hybrids in Japan in response to the soaring cost of steel and other raw materials...
Steve Parker | Posted 09.15.2008 | Green
GM is promoting the non-existent Chevrolet Volt, telling Olympics viewers it will be manufactured in 2010, but that's not definite. They say its gasoline powers a "generator" which keeps on-board batteries juiced-up.
AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 08.13.2008 | Business
TOKYO — Japanese automaker Toyota has laid off 800 people at a plant in southwestern Japan, or about 10 percent of the plant's work force, in re...
Steve Parker | Posted 08.09.2008 | Business
It should make headlines, but it won't. The news: the first major captive import vehicle-maker from China has opened its Oklahoma doors and started-up its assembly line.
Steve Parker | Posted 08.06.2008 | Media
The only way to run a successful racing series is as a benevolent dictatorship.
Andrew Winston | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business
Toyota did look forward years ago, asked what an environmental version of its product should look like, and made it a reality.
Steve Parker | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business
Now, after several years of competition between XM and Sirius, there will be one satellite radio company -- a monopoly created by the federal government. And you don't need me to tell you how strange that is.
Julie A. Varughese | Posted 08.01.2008 | Green
The Japanese automaker has touted its philosophy of reducing emissions in every aspect of its operations, from building more efficient manufacturing plants to aiming for completely recyclable vehicles.
Steve Parker | Posted 07.19.2008 | Green
Many news reports the past two days have been about Toyota's intention to build the next-generation gas/electric hybrid Prius at a factory now under c...
Steve Parker | Posted 07.19.2008 | Business
Trying to make death by overwork acceptable to any society, because survivors are able to get some monetary benefit is ridiculous, repulsive and outrageous.
New York Times | NICK BUNKLEY | Posted 07.18.2008 | Business
Toyota Motor of Japan said Thursday that it would build its popular gas-electric hybrid sedan, the Prius, in the United States for the first time as i...
AP | JAY ALABASTER | Posted 07.18.2008 | Business
TOKYO — A Japanese labor bureau has ruled that one of Toyota's top car engineers died from working too many hours, the latest in a string of suc...
Steve Parker | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green
Take a look at the health of a country's car manufacturers and it's usually closely related to the health of that nation in general. This theory certainly holds true for America, especially at this moment in time.
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 07.15.2008 | Living
Not long ago, I thought I was buying a new car. I knew my preferred colors (what the heck is "Cypress Pearl?"); I knew my preferred options (third ro...
AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business
DETROIT — Toyota took the global sales lead from General Motors in the first quarter, capitalizing on growth in China and Europe as GM saw its N...
AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 539,500 Corolla and Matrix passenger cars because the bolts in the power window system can become l...
AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business
TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. denied on Wednesday it had received any funding from the Japanese government to develop its hit Prius gas-electric hy...
AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
DETROIT — Automakers got hit where it hurts in February, with U.S. sales of their most profitable vehicles _ trucks, sport utilities and large s...
Wall Street Journal | JOHN D. STOLL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
General Motors Corp. gets to keep its title as the world's No. 1 auto maker for at least one more year. The Detroit auto maker said yesterday that it...
BBC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Automobile sales in Japan fell last year to a 35-year low as a shrinking population and limited wage growth hurt demand, an industry group said. Figu...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Toyota Motor Corp. overtook Ford Motor Co. to become the No. 2 automaker by U.S. sales in 2007, using new products and relentless strategy to break Fo...
New York Times | NICK BUNKLEY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The way that auto executives here have been talking, 2008 will be a bad year to sell cars and trucks in the United States. Every time one company pred...
EcoGeek | Jaymi Heimbuch | Posted 10.03.2008 | Green