Toyota Motor News

Toyota Motor Corp. , grappling with excess North American plant capacity as sales wither, plans to spend about $500 million to upgrade an Indiana SUV-assembly plant, its biggest single such investment this year.

Asian stocks rose, extending the regional benchmark indexa s record quarterly gain, as higher commodities prices and a weaker yen lifted the earnings outlook for producers of resources and electronics.

If things look bad in Detroit, so, too, does the outlook for the "City of the Automobile" here.

U.S. auto sales in June again failed to reach a 10 million annual pace as General Motors Corp.

The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp. plans to begin commercial production in 2012 of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles .

The company will start construction of the factory in Sorocaba in southeastern Brazil in this year's second half and expects it to be ready in 2011, Erick Boccia, a Toyota spokesman in Sao Paulo, said in a telephone interview.

Toyota Motor Corp. a s U.S. sales in June fell more than predicted after the company pared incentives and overall market demand failed to beat Maya s level, delaying a U.S. rebound for Asian auto brands.

GM and Toyota Missed again. As usual GM has an array of excuses although admittedly not the man in the moon, at least not yet.

Could Toyota Motor Corp. be mortal after all? For the third month in a row, Ford Motor Co.

For a key indicator of industrial strength and consumer confidence, a 28% year-over-year decline would seem nothing short of disastrous.

Toyota Motor Corp denied on Thursday a report that it was considering building derivatives of Mercedes-Benz's A-Class and B-Class cars on its own platform to better utilise its European plants in the long term.

General Motors Corp.'s decision to pull out of the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc.

U.S. car and truck sales showed signs of stabilizing in June after a year of sharp declines, but every major automaker except Honda Motor Co.

A picture of The timing of the complaints couldn't be much worse for Toyota as the automaker launches its third-generation 2010 Prius, shown.

TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan's biggest carmaker, had its credit rating cut by Fitch Ratings as weak car demand hampers earnings.

Toyota Motor Corp. today unveiled its recent research controlling of powered wheel-chairs via "imaginary hand and foot control." In other words, the simple thought of moving your left foot would turn your chair to the left and so on.

Toyota Motor Corp. has two choices after General Motors Corp. said ita s quitting the auto-assembly venture the rivals have shared for 25 years: bearing the expense of the factory alone or shutting down its first U.S. plant.

In a surprise move, famed sports car builder Aston Martin is collaborating with Toyota Motor Corp.

Toyota Motor Corp. today announced that its researchers have developed technology that will allow human brainwaves to steer an electric wheelchair.

Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command.