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Toyota Tundra and Sequoia to get new clean diesel V8s According to InisideLine, Toyota is working on a family of clean diesel V8 engines for its Tundra pickup and Sequoia SUV. A 4.5 liter unit is expected to enter production and hit the market for the 2010 model year of both vehicles. Toyota will also offer a new version of its existing 4.7 liter V8 E85 ethanol engine as well.Sources said that Toyota is working on at least two variants of the clean diesel V8 including the 4.5 liter unit and a larger 7.0 liter V8. The 7.0 liter V8 diesel will be fitted in... Article added: 2008-05-29 04:23:15 Article Views Rating: 163
Toyota Is Working on Diesel Engines Toyota was one of the first companies which offered vehicles with the alternative variants of fuel. Right now its designers are working on developing new V8 engines which will use ecologically clean diesel. It also makes a variant of already existing 4.7-liter V8 engine pick-ups which will run on ethanol. The new Tundra truck will be sent to the production with the new diesel engine in 2011-2012. It is going to be a powerful pick-up vehicle the main purpose of which will be towing heavy equipment like... Article added: 2008-05-29 04:23:04 Article Views Rating: 177
Toyota builds third hybrid battery plant TOKYO -- Toyota is preparing to rev up production of hybrids, announcing Tuesday its third plant in Japan for producing batteries that are key components for the "green" cars. Just last week, it announced that it was building a second such battery plant. Toyota Motor Corp. has emerged the world leader in hybrids with its hit Prius, which has sold more than a cumulative 1 million vehicles over the last decade. Sometime after 2010, it hopes to sell 1 million hybrids a year. For that, it needs to boost... Article added: 2008-05-28 08:53:33 Article Views Rating: 190
Toyota boosts volunteer overtime pay Toyota is the most successful automaker on the planet, with monstrous profits and vehicle sales. A big reason for that success is the Japanese automaker's sterling quality image, and Toyota is boosting volunteer overtime pay at home to keep workers happy. The move to increase OT came in part because of mounting pressure over the Japanese culture of "service overtime", a practice which courts say led to the death of a 30 year old worker due to overwork. Toyota had been paying for only two hours of... Article added: 2008-05-26 14:49:15 Article Views Rating: 169
Toyota's China car venture restarts TOKYO -- Production has restarted at Toyota's joint venture auto plant in China after it was halted for a week after a deadly earthquake struck nearby. Toyota Motor Corp.'s joint venture with Chinese carmaker FAW Group has only restarted the daytime shift and is taking things "one step at a time" before restarting the night shift, said Paul Nolasco, a Toyota company spokesman in Tokyo. None of the employees were injured and all family members were accounted for, but Toyota needed to check on the... Article added: 2008-05-19 11:19:43 Article Views Rating: 187
Toyota Prius sales top one million units TOKYO -- Toyota's Prius started out a decade ago as a risky experiment in green technology. Today, it's the world's first mass-produced gas-electric hybrid vehicle to hit the one million mark in sales. The Prius, which went on sale in Japan in 1997, has been a big hit with drivers around the world and is now sold in 40 countries and regions. And its popularity is going strong amid surging gas prices and growing concerns about the environment. A cumulative 1.028 million Prius vehicles have been sold... Article added: 2008-05-16 07:20:06 Article Views Rating: 157
Cards fill auto market: Toyota latest to add credit card offering WASHINGTON -- Toyota Motor Corp. will launch a Toyota-branded credit card in the United States in October, the latest entry into the crowded automotive affinity card market. Toyota will join more than a dozen auto brands offering U.S. credit cards -- including its Lexus unit, which launched a Lexus Pursuits card in June 2005 and now has about 50,000 cardholders. Toyota Financial spokeswoman Kelly Rivera said since its Toyota customer base is 10 times larger than Lexus', "we're expecting significant... Article added: 2008-05-16 07:20:06 Article Views Rating: 204
Toyota Prius sales top 1 million units worldwide Toyota has managed to rack up one million sales of its petrol-electric hybrid since the car first went on sale in Japan back in December 1997. At the end of April, Toyota said it had sold 1,028,000 Prius models with 100,000 finding a home in anti-hybrid Europe. Only last year Toyota’s combined hybrid sales including its Lexus models reached the million vehicle mark, so it just goes to show how much the Prius dominates the carmaker’s hybrid tally. Toyota is well poised to take advantage of increasing... Article added: 2008-05-16 07:19:53 Article Views Rating: 180
Toyota raising small car prices Toyota will be raising the prices on its Hybrid Prius and Yaris models by 1.8 and 1.6 percent respectively. This increase comes at a time where Toyota will soon see a drop in operating profit in nine years.[source] Article added: 2008-05-12 10:09:55 Article Views Rating: 179
Toyota recalls 90,000 Highlanders over seat belts DETROIT Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp is recalling 90,000 model year 2008 Highlander and Highlander hybrid sport utility vehicles due to potential problems with securing child safety seats in third row seats.The locking mechanism on the seat belts apparently cannot secure properly when certain rear-facing child safety seats are used, which could cause the child seats to move, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported on Friday."As such, this could discourage the use of a child restraint... Article added: 2008-05-04 12:03:00 Article Views Rating: 189 |
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