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2009 Geneva Auto Show: Toyota Verso For those who are tired of minivans but have big families or have to have many seats in a vehicle Toyota offers a seven-passenger crossover that has been redesigned for the new model year. The Toyota Verso will debut next week at the 2009 Geneva Auto Show.The manufacturer offers a variety of four-cylinder engines which run either on gasoline or diesel. As for transmission, the customers can choose six-speed manual or new CVT. New Verso is wider and longer than its predecessor and has a longer wheelbase... Article added: 2009-02-27 15:55:39 Article Views Rating: 1633
2009 Toyota Camry hybrid: Delivers green and more | detnews.com | The Detroit News It's green. Literally, figuratively, psychologically. The 2009 Toyota Camry hybrid dropped off at The News downtown office for me to test drive was jasper pearl green. Its sheet metal shimmered in the cold air, an effervescent omen of the mind games it was about to play on me. During a few minutes of comprehensive research on color meaning Google, I quickly learned that green is a calming hue that denotes nature, tranquility, luck and youth. That's why studios have "green rooms," people new to a job are... Article added: 2009-01-26 06:38:04 Article Views Rating: 255
Bonehead Viewpoint Of The Day? Activist Links Toyota And Republicans As Anti American President Bush took to the TV Friday to announce that he wouldn’t walk past the financial crash of America’s Big Three automakers and do nothing to save their lives. Refusing resuscitation, Bush said, would be irresponsible during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. A week earlier, 31 GOP Senators, mostly from Southern states, voted to avert their eyes and allow American auto companies to die. They opposed $14 billion in federal loans for GM and Chrysler, revealing that... Article added: 2008-12-24 05:44:21 Article Views Rating: 254
Toyota Profit Losses May Cost CEO Watanabe His Job Could this week get any worse for Toyota CEO Katsuaki Watanabe? Yesterday, Watanabe took the unusual step of announcing a huge profits revision at a year-end press conference which is held every December in Nagoya. It was so unusual, in fact, that Toyota now projects it will make its first ever operating loss in the fiscal year ending March 2009. “The speed, breadth and depth of the downturn is beyond what we had imagined,” Watanabe told reporters. Today, Japan’s Asahi Shimbun is... Article added: 2008-12-24 05:44:21 Article Views Rating: 262
Has The Tundra Become Just A Nail In The Coffin For Toyota? A fair amount of crocodile tears are being shed on this side of the Pacific over the travails of Japanese automakers.When Toyota announced that it expected to lose money on its auto operations for the first time since 1950, it became front-page news -- even in papers outside Detroit. A good chunk of the loss is attributable to Toyota's shuttered truck plan in San Antonio, Texas, which has been the source of unconcealed glee in Detroit, so pleased are domestic automakers to see someone making mistakes... Article added: 2008-12-24 05:44:19 Article Views Rating: 237
Toyota Plans to Use Ecological Plastic Toyota is one of the leading “green” automakers. The entire world knows about their hybrids and the projects on ecologically clean vehicles and now the Japanese manufacturer wants to arrange the interior of the new autos with the “green” plastic. The company has not announced what vehicle will be done this way, but mostly the experts say it will be 2010 Toyota Prius which is going to be presented at 2009 Detroit Auto Show in January.The... Article added: 2008-12-24 05:44:15 Article Views Rating: 247
Toyota's president refuses 2009 Detroit Auto Show invite Toyota’s President Katsuaki Watanabe, a regular at the North American International Auto Show will not be attending the show next month in Detroit. Toyota did not comment on Watanabe’s immediate change of plans.Toyota’s presence at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show will be very significant. The company plans on unveiling the next-generation Toyota Prius Hybrid as well as a dedicated hybrid model for its luxury Lexus brand.We’re guessing Watanabe...[source] Article added: 2008-12-23 06:51:58 Article Views Rating: 220
Toyota Warns Loss Is At Least $1.7 Billion For 2008 Forecast for 2009 Is Bleak Toyota Motor, the world's biggest automaker, on Monday forecast its first ever group operating loss due to a relentless global slide in car sales and a crippling rise in the yen.Toyota had been expected to issue its second profit warning in less than seven weeks, after domestic rival Honda Motor Co also took the rare step of altering its guidance outside the usual quarterly reporting season, but the downward revision was bigger than predicted."This is very, very, very bad," said Koichi Ogawa... Article added: 2008-12-23 06:51:56 Article Views Rating: 171
Toyota to debut electric concept to Detroit auto show | detnews.com | The Detroit News Toyota Motor Corp. said today it will introduce an all-new battery-powered concept car at the North American International Auto Show next month in Detroit. The small concept electric car, according to Toyota officials, is based on a subcompact car the Japanese automaker hopes to begin marketing in a few years. Responding to consumer concerns about volatile energy prices and government regulations to curb greenhouse gas emissions, Toyota wants to produce a small "city car" with a limited driving range... Article added: 2008-12-23 06:51:54 Article Views Rating: 185
Toyota projects first ever operating loss | detnews.com | The Detroit News NAGOYA, Japan -- Toyota Motor Corp. slashed its earnings forecast Monday, projecting that it would report its first annual operating loss for the fiscal year through March -- its first such loss since it began reporting results in 1941. Battered by falling demand from consumers around the world and a surging yen, Toyota and other Japanese automakers have been reducing earnings outlooks and cutting workers. "The change that has hit the world economy is of a critical scale that comes once in a hundred... Article added: 2008-12-23 06:51:54 Article Views Rating: 203 |
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