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• It's Getting Hot in Here: The High-Stakes Debate Over Fuel Economy and Climate Standards

  BNET - 2009-10-22

  Sometimes you have to read between the lines of public hearing testimony, and that’s never truer than in the high-stakes negotiations over fuel-economy and climate standards. Automotive Corporate Average Fuel Economy CAFE standards have been notoriously stagnant, barely changing for 20 years. But in May, automakers, the...

  Tags: Car, Automobile Company, California, Standards, Plug-in, Toyota Motor Corp., Plug-In America, Quality, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Jim Motavalli

• Toyota raises outlook for the year

  Financial Times - 2009-08-03

  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...

  Tags: Net Loss, Car, Automobile Company, Toyota Motor Corp., Sales Strategy, Manufacturing, Sales Force Management, Sales, Company News, Interim Results, Results, Financial Times

• Toyota, Honda Lack GM's Enthusiasm for Plug-in Hybrids

  - 2007-10-24

  Japanese automakers Toyota and Honda, which were the first automakers to embrace gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles, both said this week that they are skeptical of plug-in hybrids, according to a face=+Italic; Wall Street Journalface=-Italic; report.Japanese automakers Toyota and Honda, which were the first automakers to embrace gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles,...

  Tags: automobile company, General Motors Corp., Honda Motor Co., plug-in, Toyota Motor Corp.

• TOYOTA TO STRENGTHEN EXPANDING IN CHINA

  - 2007-09-04

  AsiaInfo Services 09-04-2007 Toyota to Strengthen Expanding in China GUANGZHOU, Sep 04, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Toyota Motor Corp., one of the world's largest automakers, will enforce investment in the Chinese market as a part of its glob AsiaInfo...

  Tags: automobile company, car, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Material Sciences looks overseas; Coated-metal maker wants to ease reliance on domestic automakers.(News)(contracts of Nissan Maxima, Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co.)(Financial report)

  - 2007-07-09

  Byline: H. LEE MURPHY Both the auto and homebuilding industries have been in retreat this year, delivering a double whammy to Material Sciences Corp. A maker of coated metals, Elk Grove Village-based Material Sciences gets close to two-thirds of Byline: H....

  Tags: automobile company, financial, Honda Motor Co., Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Toyota Motor Corp.

• Auto Publication Says Toyota Outsold GM Last Year

  - 2007-06-20

  Japanese automaker Toyota outsold U.S. automaker General Motors in 2006, according sales calculations by face=+Italic; Automotive Newsface=-Italic; .Japanese automaker Toyota outsold U.S. automaker General Motors in 2006, according sales calculations by face=+Italic; Automotive Newsface=-Italic; .

  Tags: automobile company, General Motors Corp., sales, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Toyota beats Ford at its own game.

  - 2007-06-03

  Jun 03, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Japanese car maker, Toyota, increased its sales in the US by 14 per cent in May 2007. It sold more vehicles than Ford for the third time in seven months. It is challenging the positi...

  Tags: automobile company, Ford Motor Co., game, sales, Toyota Motor Corp.

• No surprise; Honda, Toyota rank No. 1, No. 2 in green auto report.(News)

  - 2007-04-16

  Byline: Jim Johnson Honda nosed out Toyota to retain its standing as the greenest automaker, a group of environmentally aware scientists report. Both auto manufacturers posted "better than average global warming scores in every clas ...

  Tags: automobile company, global warming, Honda Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp.

• U.S. Automakers: Death by Environmental Movement?

  - 2007-04-04

  The U.S. Supreme Court ruling this week on greenhouse gas emissions is a major event for America's already-struggling car manufacturers, who come in at the bottom of environmental performance rankings. The high court's decision finally classifies carbon dioxide (i.e. car exhaust) as an air pollutant, which means automakers are likely...

  Tags: Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co., Automobile Company, Manufacturing, Andrew Hines

• Perception gaps.(THE FINISHING TOUCH)

  - 2007-02-01

  Domestic automakers have a problem. OK, they have quite a few problems, but one of their main problems is this: they're making better vehicles, but American consumers don't seem to know or care about it. According to author Roger Simmermaker, ...

  Tags: automobile company, Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp.