Toyota Recall September 2009: 3.8 Million Cars Affected

Toyota recalls nearly 4 million cars in its biggest vehicle recall in US history. Owners of certain vehicles are advised to remove their floor mats and not replace them with other mats. Toyota cars are being...

Solar Powered Wi-Fi Flowers Light Up U.S.

Patrick Shearn and Cynthia Washburn, a couple of Los Angeles artists have teamed up and are a part of a campaign for Toyota's newest generation Prius. The project is called Prius Solar Flower Lounge and managed by...

Toyota Wins in Cash for Clunkers Sales

The top selling cars in the Cash for Clunkers program were: Toyota Corolla (see related recall story- d'oh!) Honda Civic Toyota Camry Ford Focus Nearly 700,000 cars were sold in the Cash for Clunkers program's four-week run, most of them by Japanese automakers: Toyota alone...

Aston Martin Designs Commuter Car

Aston Martin designed a small car for commuting that could go into production very soon. The car company has joined Toyota to create the Cygnet concept. The end product is the Toyota iQ car. A staff of Aston says. Cygnet will offer "a distinctive, intelligent.....solution...

Toyota President Akio Toyoda is Heir of Founder Kiichiro Toyoda

Akio Toyoda has been appointed the new president of Toyota car manufacturer. Toyoda is the grandson of Kiichiro Toyoda, who founded Toyota, and the son of Shoichiro Toyoda, who has also served as Toyota president."Toyoda formally became president at a directors' meeting later...

New Formula One Race

Formula One fans will watch a new rival race series in future.Eight of the world's top motor racing teams - Ferrari,Mclaren,Red Bull,BMW-Sauber,Toyota,Renault,Toro Rosso and Brawn - are setting up a new...

Japan Today.

Japan Today. Is a round up of Japan's top 10 or so news events. Via, Uwe Paschen.   Well as the World is still in a recession going towards a depression the Asian Market did follow Wall-Streed and tubled....

Power-generating shock absorbers

This is brilliant!  It is almost free energy that we can tap without any major modifications.  Add in improved thin film solar panels and we could eventually end up with electric cars that use very little external energy!  " Shock absorbers tapped to...

GM falls behind Toyota in annual global sales

Oh how the mighty have fallen - Toyota has overtook GM as the No. 1 global sales leader in 2008 with a 11 percent drop in global sales. To make matters worst, GM is continuing to decline as their shares fell to...

F1 Season Begins For The Toyota TF109 :: The EDJE

" The TF109 - Image Credit: Panasonic Toyota RacingF1 Season Begins For The Toyota TF109Yesterday marked the first day Panasonic Toyota Racing debut its new sled that will campaign for the title of the 2009...

The Global Common Currency, to avoid another Financial Crisis

By, Uwe Paschen.  The Global recession could have been avoided even with the latest financial scandals and the US mortgage crisis would we have had a common global currency. Some of the hard ship that companies do...

Detroit M Show Toyota pure electric car by 2012, Chinese BYD

Toyota pure electric FT-EV starting 2010, US 2012 Toyota saying  FT-EV car is an attempt to examine a car that would fit the needs and lifestyle of an urban dweller who drives no more than 50 miles a day and...

Toyota Struggling in Tough Economy, Seeks to Slash Worker Wages

Toyota may be stiff competition for American automakers but it is struggling to stay afloat in these tough economic times all the same.  Early this week Toyota announced it would initiate an 11 day work stoppage by shutting down production at plants in Japan as part of...

Toyota's First Solar powered Car.

By, Uwe Paschen.  Toyotas First Solar Powered car  Toyota is in spite of a Global Recession and maybe soon to be Depression, as well as its first annual loss in 70 year still investing into environmental...

Toyota Forecasts Its First Operating Loss in 71 Years

Amazingly enough, it is not just troubles found at the “Big Three” that may have an effect at motorsports most visible pursuit – NASCAR! Nearly 50 teams rely on millions of dollars in supplies and...

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