Toyota Motor Corp will boost production capacity for its Lexus luxury cars in Japan by about 35 percent in 2009 to meet growing demand in emerging countries such as Russia and China, the Nikkei business daily reported on Wednesday.
Japan Stocks declined Tuesday in Tokyo as investors fears both of the U.S. and domestic economy.
Drama-plagued Britney Spears seems to be causing more waves in her bank account, than in personal life.
General Motors Corp CEO Rick Wagoner boasts about the number of markets where the U.S. automaker is number one. Toyota Motor Corp President Katsuaki Watanabe emphasises where his company trails.
Toyota Motor Corp on Monday threw down the gauntlet to GM in a race for the next green car.
Major automakers reported lower U.S. sales for December led by a 9 percent slide at Ford Motor Co as the industry closed out its weakest year in over a decade and faced the prospect of deeper declines in 2008.
Toyota Motor Corp expects to accelerate its cost-cutting efforts next year to save more than $2.7 billion annually, its president said on Tuesday, as the world's biggest carmaker seeks to offset rising commodity and development costs.
Toyota Motor Corp said on Thursday it aims to put its humanoid and other advanced robots to practical use soon after 2010 to help people in factories, hospitals, homes and around town.
Shares in Toyota Motor Corp have been battered this year, lagging both global auto peers and a weak Japanese stock market, but analysts are near unanimous that the world's most profitable carmaker is due for a bounce.
Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said on Wednesday it would recall 215,020 units of the Lexus GS, Crown and three other high-end car models in Japan to fix a faulty fuel pipe that could lead to a fuel leakage.
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Japan's big automakers such as Toyota and Honda are expanding in the Middle East and other smaller markets.
Honda Motor Co's redesigned Fit subcompact won Japan's Car of the Year award, beating finalists including Nissan Motor Co's Skyline and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd's Subaru Impreza.
GM's electric car will launch by 2010 despite internal skeptics and worriers, a company chief says
Toyota Motor Corp said on Monday it aimed to sell 700,000 vehicles in China next year, up 46 percent from the year before, after raising its China sales target for 2007 by nearly 12 percent, buoyed by hot-selling models.
Image-conscious drivers love their hybrid cars but truck operators say hybrid is too expensive.
Toyota Motor Corp on Friday detailed plans to study U.S. consumer demand for a version of its hot-selling Prius hybrid that could be recharged at a standard outlet and run on electric power only.
Toyota Motor Corp, the world's most profitable automaker, posted a 2.7 percent rise in quarterly operating profit thanks to a weaker yen, stronger sales and cost cuts and nudged up its full-year forecasts.
Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc. celebrated on Wednesday its fiftieth year car and truck sales in the United States.
Chrysler LLC and Ford Motor Co on Thursday reported double-digit drops in October sales, lagging rivals in a slumping U.S. market widely expected to remain under pressure into next year. Chrysler, which also announced plans to slash one-fifth of its factory work force and cut four slow-selling models, posted a 12 percent drop in monthly sales that was deeper than analysts had forecast.
United Auto Workers members at a major Chrysler LLC assembly plant in St. Louis have overwhelmingly rejected a proposed contract with Chrysler, delivering a setback to union leadership in early voting on the four-year deal.
Every car from Toyota is no longer automatically recommended, according to a new reliability study.
