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- Toyota's New President Reportedly Will Be Founder's Grandson
- Date posted: 2009-01-12 11:22:00.0 TOKYO — Akio Toyoda, the 52-year-old grandson of the company founder, will take the helm of the automaker in the midst of a highly troubling global economy, according to a report in Monday's Wall Street Journal. Toyoda will succeed current President Katsuaki Watanabe, reports the Journal....
- News items 2009-08-07
- Founder's grandson could replace Watanabe at Toyota
- TOKYO -- As Toyota Motor Corp. faces its biggest crisis, speculation is growing that the charismatic grandson of the company's founder may take over leadership of the automaker sooner than expected. Japan's nationally circulated Asahi newspaper reported Tuesday that Akio Toyoda -- long groomed for the top job -- will...
- News items 2009-08-07
- News: Toyota: time for exciting cars
- Toyota is the master of conservative cars, but now the world's largest car maker is looking to inject excitement in to its future. Toyota Concept Car Toyota finally wants to build more exciting cars and welcome a sports car back to its conservative range as part of a brand building...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Now Toyota quits Formula One
- Posted by: Ian Rowley on November 04 At a hastily arranged press conference this evening in Tokyo, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda announced that the carmaker is the latest big player to quit Formula One motorsport. Toyota, which competed in 139 races after entering the sport in 2002, winning no races,...
- News items 2009-11-04
- Lexus introduces the $375k LFA at Tokyo show
- Posted by: Ian Rowley on October 21 Toyota chief Akio Toyoda did his best to liven up proceedings, but even the unveiling of a production version of the $375,000 Lexus LFA supercar couldn't help this year's Tokyo Motor Show capture the excitement of recent years. Toyoda helped develop the Lexus...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Toyota Pulls Out of Formula One
- By Alastair HimmerTOKYO (Reuters UK) - Toyota withdrew from Formula One with immediate effect on Wednesday, leaving Japan without a team in motorsport's premier series.Company president Akio Toyoda apologised for the team's failure to record a single race victory since joining F1 in 2002 despite an estimated annual budget of...
- News items 2009-11-04
- Toyota Finds Curious Inspiration for FT-86 Color
- When Toyota revealed on Tuesday the FT-86 concept, the spiritual successor to the Toyota AE86, a popular sport compact car of the 1980s, there was no question what color it would be. "Sports cars have to be red, but we wanted a new red," said Tetsuya Tada, the chief engineer,...
- News items 2009-10-07
- Toyota seeks aposvehicle fix' in recall of 3.8M vehicles
- Washington -- Toyota Motor Corp. agreed Monday to recall 3.8 million vehicles -- just days after the U.S. government issued an "urgent" warning to remove driver floor mats because of the danger they could jam and cause the gas pedal to stick open. The Japanese automaker officially launched its largest...
- News items 2009-10-07
- Batteries vs. Fuel Cells: A Tale of Unequal Federal Funding
- Both electric and fuel-cell cars are set to hit the market, but only the first one is getting any direct federal support. The Department of Energy is investing not only in battery electric cars, but in the plants that make their batteries. And yes, the DOE is also supporting hydrogen...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- 2ND LD: Toyota's Akio Toyoda to be senior managing director.
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- Research articles 2003-04-14
- Toyota family says number one doesn't matter
- TOKYO AFP — Being the world's number one automaker doesn't matter unless the public is convinced of the business's quality, a member of Toyota Motor Corp's founding family says. Toyota is forecast this year to surpass ailing US giant General Motors Corp in both sales and output for the...
- Research articles 2007-03-03
- Toyota's Heir Apparent Masters His Art at Fremont, Calif., Plant.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 18 -- FREMONT, Calif. -- At a sprawling automobile factory on the edge of Silicon Valley, the heir-apparent to the Toyota empire is quietly learning the family business while studying the American mind. The factory is the...
- Research articles 1999-07-19
- Toyota Heir Apparent Continues His Education at Fremont, Calif., Plant.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 20 -- FREMONT, Calif. -- At a sprawling automobile factory on the edge of Silicon Valley, the heir-apparent to the Toyota empire is quietly learning the family business while studying the American mind. The factory is the...
- Research articles 1999-07-20
- Toyota raises outlook for the year
- Toyota Motor, the world's biggest carmaker by sales, suffered a Y77.8bn ($818m) net loss in its fiscal first quarter as it struggled to adjust to the worst car industry downturn in decades.However, the Japanese manufacturer was more optimistic about its prospects for the year to next March, updating its...
- External links 2009-08-03
- Toyota's Emerging-Market Compact Car
- Zacks.com submits: Toyota Motor TM has teamed up with its subsidiary Daihatsu to develop a compact car for emerging markets. The car, which would be priced under ¥1 million ($11,000) will be offered for sale in India, Brazil, China and other markets in the first half of the...
- External links 2009-10-18
- Japan Automakers Look Beyond U.S. as Strong Yen Bites
- By Chang-Ran Kim, Asia autos correspondentCHIBA, Japan (Reuters) - Japanese automakers such as Honda and Nissan want to reduce their reliance on the U.S. market, where weak demand and a falling dollar have slashed profits, even as a poor turnout at their flagship auto show highlights the challenges at home.No...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Japan Automakers Look Beyond U.S. as Strong Yen Bites
- By Chang-Ran Kim, Asia autos correspondent CHIBA, Japan (Reuters) - Japanese automakers such as Honda and Nissan want to reduce their reliance on the U.S. market, where weak demand and a falling dollar have slashed profits, even as a poor turnout at their flagship auto show highlights the challenges at...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Automakers Rev Up Hydrogen Cars Efforts
- Imagine a car that can be refuelled in minutes but emits only water. Sounds like science fiction? In fact it already exists - Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis has one. So does Honda president Takanobu Ito.Yet while some see them as the ultimate environmentally-friendly automobiles, the high production cost...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Toyota set to quit Formula One
- Toyota Motor has decided to follow Honda and BMW out of Formula One racing to save costs as the Japanese carmaker braces for its second straight annual loss, a person with knowledge of the situation said on Wednesday.Akio Toyoda, the Japanese automaker's president, is expected to announce the move...
- News items 2009-11-03
- U.S. rips Toyota statement on floor mats
- WASHINGTON - Toyota Motor Corp. released misleading information about an investigation into problems with stuck gas pedals that led to a massive Toyota recall, the U.S. government said Wednesday, stressing the issue is still under review by federal safety regulators. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was still...
- News items 2009-11-04
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