Toyota

He said Toyota as an example of the current low rate of only a temporary phenomenon started.

Just as Cadillac used to be synonymous with luxury and BMW with sportiness, Toyota was a byword for quality and reliability.

He said the situation is serious, because big names including Toyota , BMW and Red Bull have already threatened to quit over the situation.

In a statement, Toyota said it had received and was reviewing the committee's letter.

Toyota Serving as a Marine recruiter in western North Carolina, I found a young man who met all the requirements and was ready to enlist.

Toyota is trying to restore its image with a massive public relations campaign.

Toyota began Monday to publicly discuss consumer concerns over sudden acceleration of its vehicles, following nearly a week of silence.

Chrysler will all to a distant fifth place in North American production, with Honda finishing in third and Toyota in fourth.

Toyota Motor has always been fanatical about frugality, and for many years that was good for both the company and its customers.

Yet, in places like Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, DC, every other car seems to be a Toyota Prius.

As part of Toyota's global expansion plan, the automaker's streamline production, so one part will fit multiple car models around the word.

But Toyota seems to be holding the course and communicating with much more transparency with its dealers and consumers.

The shakeup reflects the sense of crisis within Toyota as it navigates one of the toughest periods in its 70-year history.

Those companies have joined Mitsubishi, Nissan and Toyota in the scramble for a place in the new electric-car industry.

"We did not try to hide a defect to avoid dealing with a safety problem, " Toyota said in a statement.

The paper said the door-parts plant in Tianjin has suspended operations due to a strike, citing Toyota officials familiar with the matter.

Over the last three decades, Toyota built its reputation around the most American of traits: durability, reliability, affordability.

On Wednesday, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he would urge Toyota owners to stop driving recalled vehicles immediately.

In the matter of the subpoenas, Toyota said it intends to cooperate with the investigations and is preparing its responses to the requests.

There is a question of uptake of the principles now that Toyota has production operations in many different countries around the world.

He has been trying to persuade Toyota that cars are a dying industry and that it should turn its engineers on to farming efficiency instead.

Hitoshi Yokoyama, a Beijing-based Toyota spokesman, said the new incentives will mostly last through the end of this month.

Toyota began to be recognized in the 1980 s for the quality of its vehicles and its responsiveness to customers .

He was the top pick of that draft, selected by the Houston Rockets, whose new arena would soon be sponsored by Toyota.

Toyota is about to release a new Camry, which has underwhelmed early reviewers and no doubt will undergo revision to maintain dominance.

I remember we used to have the Detroit auto workers beat up an old Japanese car with sledgehammers. Like that would stop Toyota!

Honda is hot on Toyota's heels in terms of hybrid technology, has a strong presence in the States, and is a world leader in small cars.

Even Japanese automaker Toyota saw its sales fall thirty-four percent in the United States in November from a year ago.

Saylor family attorney John Gomez told CNN affiliate KGTV in San Diego that as part of the settlement, Toyota did not admit liability.

Subsequently, in private conversations Toyota said the sticky gas pedal problem was not associated with sudden, high speed acceleration.

Recently I sat down with Tony Wong, a project management blackbelt whose client list includes Toyota, Honda, and Disney, to name a few.

But the company said it had achieved "favorable safety outcomes" and "secured safety rulemaking favorable to Toyota. "

The Italian was Toyota's only finisher, able to run nowhere near the comparative pace he had demonstrated in qualifying.

"Toyota is going to have to do a lot of work itself, by switching more quickly to global platforms and using more common parts, " he said.

'We don't have any concrete plans at the moment, but it would be natural for us' to source more models from Toyota, he said.

Squeezing out cost savings has long been a Toyota hallmark but the company has intensified its efforts this year.

That yen battle is far from over, and the fortunes of Japanese exporters like Sony, Honda and Toyota are up in the air as it plays out.

He said he expected Toyota ' will be called upon under our system to pay compensation . '

A Toyota spokesman declined to comment on how much the sales and production suspension will cost the company.

Another season began at Toyota Center and basketball is still treated like just a part of the entertainment package here at Camp Yuckitup.

After the hearing he addressed Toyota employees in the U. S. , where tears welled up in his eyes.

There was no room in the caravan for me, a translator, and a photographer, so we hired a driver and a Toyota Corolla.

Toyota said the initial sales target for the next-generation plug-in hybrid is only several tens of thousands of cars a year.

He said the Harrison police 'will be issuing the final investigation report, including the information provided by Toyota and NHTSA. '

Toyota's first low-cost car designed especially for the price-sensitive Indian market is still a year away.

The person familiar with Toyota's plans said the company would likely 'take action early this week' to fix the Priuses.

Working with Chery will allow the company to add models able to compete with Toyota, which makes the Yaris, with less investment.

A Toyota spokeswoman in the company's Washington office for media inquiries said she couldn't comment on the matter.

Ralf, Toyota seems to be a team on the up, the performances are getting better, but there always seems to be something going wrong.

Toyota, which is challenging GM as the world's largest carmaker, is often praised for the efficiency and flexibility of its workforce.

While employment is still for life for Toyota's full-ti me workers, so me complain that the company is now mise rly with wage increases.

A year later Consumer Reports, an influential magazine, dropped three Toyota models from its recommended list.

Toyota's running into its own regulatory roadblocks trying to partner up with companies to mine and refine rare earths in Vietnam.

As it was aggressively expanding around the world, Toyota began to see a growing number of recalls.

'I would like to make sure we re-embrace those basics and rebuild the foundation of Toyota and its production system, ' he said.

The debate is likely to continue as a Toyota official said the company had no plans to issue a more precise number.

Toyota had not yet received any information on an embargo and was unable to comment, said Masami Doi, a spokesman for Toyota in Tokyo.

Deputy Executive President of Toyota said the company hopes to launch by 2015 a new type of fuel cell vehicles.

It is powered by a second-hand 133 horsepower Honda Civic car engine and kitted out with seats from an old Toyota saloon car.

The sense of alarm sweeping Toyota found a voice last October.

Toyota is the largest automaker in the world - when auto sales drop this much, they're bound to see a drop in profits.

Toyota's upscale Lexus brand is set for a design shake-up as it battles to revive stodgy sales and a slipping image among young car buyers.

To help combat these losses, Toyota is trying to slash costs by around $8 billion.

The plug-in hybrid and could tide Toyota over until the electric vehicle market becomes big enough to profit off of it.

If you've ever experienced the joy of being told that your rental car is a Toyota Corolla rather than a Chevrolet Impala, you know this.

In the U. S. , Toyota's massive recall and production stoppage is widely portrayed as an embarrassing stumble for a quality-proud giant.

Toyota said it did not expect to resume full production until the end of this year.

There were still plenty of first-rate ones: Unilever and Toyota continued to innovate through thick and thin.

But it was only last September that Toyota acknowledged there might be a problem after a particularly gruesome accident.

The company is also working to return development work that had been sourced to outside engineers back to Toyota employees.

In the past few months our customers have started to be unsure about the safety of Toyota vehicles, and I take full responsibility for that.

But Toyota comes to market with a truck that, by the numbers, is just as big and tough as anyone's along with a reputation for reliability.

"Toyota has failed to measure up to international standards; it's also failed to measure up to Japanese expectations, " he added.

The Toyota driver had a look at turn nine on a couple of occasions but Webber had the better grip and eventually pulled clear.

Toyota is also halting production of the models at five facilities in the United States and Canada for at least the first week of February.

Toyota executives have acknowledged that the company expanded too quickly in the U. S. before its recalls.

Toyota, General Motors and Volvo may be flummoxed for the moment because supplies from Japan have been disrupted.

Regardless, with lawyers across the country preparing lawsuits against Toyota, there's likely to be a clamor for more data.

Toyota spokesman Mike Michels said the automaker was moving towards announcing a remedy for the Prius brake glitch.

Like the rest of the global carmaking industry, Chinese auto manufacturers are looking for ways to capitalize on Toyota's setback.

Many motorists chuckle smugly after giving their cars a little extra gas to leave a Toyota Prius or some other in the dust.

'This is not just a Toyota issue but a corporate Japan issue, ' said Shin Tanaka, the president of Fleishman Hillard Japan.

A person familiar with the matter on Monday said Toyota expects to recall two million vehicles in Europe because of defective gas pedals.

The letter asked Toyota to clarify when it first learned of the problem and any action that might have been taken.

Toyota was now staking claim to the Big Three's backyard, serving notice that it was a serious competitor.

With that, he sent a laugh through a Toyota Center hallway as he headed toward his car.

On a recent morning this small man leapt out of a trooper' s Toyota (Indiana-made) while it was still moving.

A tragic earthquake and a steroidal yen have wreaked havoc on the bottom lines of major firms Honda and Toyota.

The port Connally referred to back then was Yokohama and the little cars he mentioned were made by Datsun and Toyota.

In 1997, there was a fire at a plant of one of Toyota's main suppliers, Aisin Seiki, which made a brake valve used in all Toyota vehicles.

In 1997, there was a fire at a plant of one of Toyota's main suppliers, Aisin Seiki, which made a brake valve used in all Toyota vehicles.

We are always within four or five tenths of the best team, being Brawn or Red Bull, and there was also Toyota and Ferrari ahead of us.

Toyota has overtaken Chrysler in US light vehicle sales and is expected to dislodge Ford from second place within the next year.

I understand Toyota is trying to go for putting safety before profits.

Toyota had said earlier in the day that it would try to duplicate the tests "to determine if appropriate steps need to be taken" .

Toyota is now trying to wrench itself back on course.

Toyota Motor is to reduce year-end bonuses for thousands of managers as part of a cost- cutting drive in response to plummeting sales.

But the data, at least for now, support Toyota's assertion that electronic defects in its cars aren't behind the incidents.

Had this story not come out in the U. S. it is doubtful whether Toyota would have even considered a recall at home.

As the site of its first dealership in the U. S. , Toyota picked a spot on iconic Hollywood Boulevard, just off the 101 freeway.

"Toyota is already seeing shipments being stopped, " said the supplier, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Toyota's Corolla production will shift back to the U. S. next year at a new factory set to open near Tupelo, Miss.

Mr. Toyoda, he said, is 'the only person who can save Toyota. '

Waseda University Finance Professor Yukio Noguchi says Toyota's problems are a sign of arrogance, after years of global success.

Only 18 months ago Toyota displaced General Motors (GM), a fallen icon if ever there was one, as the world's biggest carmaker.

Her decomposed body was found almost two years later, on the back seat of her Toyota Landcruiser in a lake, 15 miles away.

In moving to a pure induction design, Toyota could do worse than take a page out of the Tesla car company's manual.

S. to his prayer: "And oh, Lord, thank you so much for the Toyota Camery, beige, four doors, with a sunroof . "

Toyota's problems will only add to its momentum: it is one of the companies offering a $1, 000 discount for a Toyota trade-in.

Toyota did not make the winning of Deming Awards its final goal but rather the starting point of its quality journey.

If not for its flush cash situation, built up over years of profitability, Toyota's woes would be comparable to GM's.

Japan's Transport Ministry appeared to be a step ahead of Toyota last week.

The estimate was in a confidential internal Toyota presentation from July 2009 listing legislative and regulatory "wins" for the company.

The series of allegations against Toyota involving unintended acceleration incidents just got a bit more interesting.

Prof. Strangas said he had heard rumors of Toyota working on an advanced induction motor, but hasn't seen a published study on the work.

The document added to criticisms that federal officials did not act aggressively enough against Toyota.

The resumption should allow Toyota to resume work at its Guangzhou vehicle plants 'as early as Monday morning, ' he said.

'The incident did not lead to a full-blown factory wide strike, ' a senior Toyota manufacturing executive said.

Toyota's Corolla, one of the best-selling cars worldwide, is much the same in most parts of the world with only minor variations.

Toyota says it found a software problem that could briefly affect thefuelfeel " of the anti-lock brakes onruffrough or slippery roads. "

He said Toyota's vehicle-assembly operations around China remained unaffected Thursday.

But news of new, unrelated recalls and tense testimony by Toyota executives before Congress last month have kept the company on the defense.

Toyota's decision in 2003 to put a huge new factory and supplier park there had a lot to do with the Latin American market.

Toyota is reported to be close to securing key supplies in Vietnam; Sumitomo, another Japanese firm, is moving forwards in Kazakhstan.

To be fair, Toyota may be shifting production domestically to avoid outright layoffs, something unpalatable to the Japanese public.

Up to now , Toyota Motor Corp. 's Lexus luxury division 's hybrid- electric vehicles have emphasized performance over fuel economy .

A Toyota spokeswoman said the halt at its 12 plants was aimed at allowing employees and suppliers to check the safety of their families.

A medium-sized dog has the same impact as a Toyota Land Cruiser driven 6, 000 miles a year, while a cat is equivalent to a Volkswagen Golf.

Most of Toyota's rivals are expected to post higher sales compared to a year ago.

The Toyota Yaris Digital City Guide allows you to check out cool places in various cities across the US in the Toyota Yaris.

Toyota's management elders appear ready to support Mr. Toyoda.

Fitch said the recall and sales suspension casts a negative light on Toyota's reputation for quality.

"The Toyota logo has a whole ' nother ring in it, " Geely spokespeople did not say.

'Toyota assured us that this would solve the problem, ' said Nicole Nason, then NHTSA's administrator.

Toyota reported a 32% decline in operating profit between July and September, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

A turning point came in a meeting in November at the company's global headquarters in Toyota City.

I, more than anyone, wish for Toyota's cars to be safe, and for our customers to feel safe when they use our vehicles.

Another problem Toyota identified is a gas pedal mechanism that sometimes can be slow to return to its non-depressed position.

Separately, Toyota Motor said it had set up a task force to handle rare earth procurements.

This has been a public-relations nightmare for Toyota, as its brand name has been synonymous with quality and reliability.

Toyota spokesman declined to comment, saying the company does not talk about future product plans.

Toyota has recalled more than eight million vehicles world-wide, denting consumer confidence in its brand in the U. S. , its biggest market.

The action also came as Toyota appeared to be putting the safety crisis behind it.

Toyota even commissioned chocolates featuring the logo, which were handed out in its V. I. P. room at the show.

To aid the war effort, he and some friends had adapted a Toyota Land Cruiser pickup into a mobile emergency-treatment center.

Toyota said it had collected data from 600 people around the world who had leased the plug-in on a trial basis.

He acknowledges Hyundai has been a 'fast follower, ' essentially mimicking Toyota's strategy.

But he insists that, now in his second full season on the F1 grid, his enduring Toyota link is no guarantee of a future in the sport.

Toyota now expects to make a smaller loss for the year of 200bn yen, compared to the 450bn yen loss it had predicted.

How do you think Toyota supplying engines to Williams is going to affect Midland next year? Will it be a help or a hindrance?

Up to 19 U. S. crash deaths over the past decade may be linked to accelerator-related problems at Toyota, congressional officials have said.

Toyota said it had received a request on Feb 19 to voluntarily submit certain documents from the Los Angeles office of the SEC.

Toyota appears to be starting to put the brakes on its recall problem.

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Toyota said on Tuesday it had no plans for any new Prius recalls related to this problem.

Toyota said the Changshu technical center is scheduled to open in 2013.

GM is offering no-interest loans of up to 60 months on one of its new models with a Toyota trade-in.

I have been driving my Toyota Matrix the last six years and I haven't had any problems with it.

In the late 1990s, when a strong yen made Japan a costly place to make cars, Toyota slashed capacity at home and added production overseas.

Toyota says it found a software problem that could briefly affect the " feel" of theantilockanti-lock brakes on roughandor slippery roads.

The head of al-Qaeda in the Horn of Africa, one of America's most wanted men, turned his Toyota Hilux right when he should have gone left.

Toyota's Yokoyama said the uncertain future of the Lexus SUV in China was not likely to cause huge financial pain for Toyota.

Toyota's assembly line of the 1980s was famously efficient due to its revolutionary approach towards defect prevention.

Many of the most reliable brands continued to belong to Asian car makers, including Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co.

This alone has made it a favourite among hybrid carmakers such as Honda and Toyota.

Toyota has said the allegations are inaccurate and misleading.

Drivers overwhelmingly tell surveys that they would not take the risk when Mercedes and Toyota make perfectly good alternatives.

The latest study also revealed that quality at Ford and Chevrolet is now virtually on par with that at Toyota.

Rumors have been circling for a few months suggesting that if Toyota brings the iQ to America, it will be badged a Scion.

And firms like Toyota and Microsoft, exploiting economies of scale, are still behaving much like the companies he celebrated.

Toyota, with its $50 billion pile of cash and marketable assets and its huge manufacturing presence in North America, stands to gain most.

Toyota spokesman John Hanson said the new motor could come in the "near term. "

According to AutoInsight, Toyota has increased production of the Prius since 1999 by an average of 50 percent a year.

Toyota is the new General Motors in terms of experiencing quality glitches, over-expansion and the proliferation of new product models.

Analysts say damage to Toyota's brand could require the company to spend on advertising, sales incentives and possible legal bills.

But now Takeo Fukui, the company's CEO, says he won't be engaging Toyota in a price war for the title.

As for the car itself, Toyota is reportedly working on the styling while Subaru is said to be handling the engineering side of things.

I think we are very close to that at the moment - to beat Toyota.

He said Toyota's Tianjin auto-assembly plant is operating normally Thursday.

Toyota's unionized plant in California and a small car plant in Canada are less likely to implement the reduction in weekly hours.

I've been unable to confirm speculation that this is a possible source of Toyota's throttle problem.

The cop had written down that the car was a gold Toyota, whereas the vehicle registration plainly stated that it was gray.

But in the letter to Mr. Lentz, Mr. Waxman and Mr. Stupak said Toyota had dismissed the idea and had not investigated it properly.

Honda Motor , Toyota 's biggest domestic rival, last week cut its third-quarter dividend in half as it issued its own sharp profit warning.

Base versions of the Honda Civic and Hyundai Elantra do not, although the Toyota Corolla and Chevrolet Cruze do.

"We have this big sister division called Toyota that already does that, " he said.

US unit Toyota Motor Sales USA separately received a subpoena for related documents, including about the company's disclosure policies.

The actions are in part intended to deal with criticism that Toyota acted too slowly in response to its recent safety problems.

Toyota initially said the action came voluntarily.

Even till now, the main car type of the Toyota Camry(the Kai beautiful Rui), return to be think to be too dull, not enough "cool" .

Toyota Motor Corporation is one of the world's leading automakers, offering a full range of models, from mini vehicles to large trucks.

For a decade now, the image of Leonardo DiCaprio cruising in his hybrid Toyota Prius has defined the gold standard for environmentalism.

Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Mazda said separately Thursday that abnormal inflation of passenger-side airbags was the reason for the recall.

'The last time this kind of diplomatic tiff happened, Toyota sales in China felt little impact from it, ' he said.

Toyota, a company that used to embody Japan's reputation for quality, is enmeshed in a safety and public relations nightmare.

Volkswagen is considering developing a pick-up truck as it seeks to boost global sales and challenge the growing power of Japan's Toyota.

"Toyota strongly believes that a strong market with vigorous competition is in everyone's interest, " said Tina Ewald, a Toyota spokeswoman.

But I think Mondragon workers all Toyota models and production patterns can be a good combination.

Toyota recalled Tundra pickup trucks for a corrosion problem that could lead to the spare tire falling off the back of the truck.

Toyota is benchmarked as the best in its class for high quality, high productivity, manufacturing speed and flexibility.

Early on Tuesday, before the start of the factory's day shift, Toyota decided to suspend operations at the factory, Ms. Takeuchi said.

Toyota unveiled its largest-ever light truck in Detroit, and is thought to be planning several new American factories.

this brought to light the unjust nature of labour control by Toyota, a global enterprise.

Unfortunately, the job leads are just not there, at least not in this one industry city that lives and dies by Toyota Motor Corporation.

Toyota plans to supply a small model to its partner by the end of this year.

Toyota's management exhibited the same behavior recently in refusing to believe the company could make faulty cars.

So even as Toyota emphasises the green credentials of its Prius hybrid car, it is attacking the Silverado, one of GM's biggest money-makers.

Government investigations, lawsuits, late-night comedians and a media frenzy all will complicate Toyota's recovery efforts.

A Toyota spokeswoman declined to comment on the infighting, saying: 'We do not discuss executive changes unless they are formally decided. '

"One of our goals is to move robots from the factory to the home without any safety fence, " says Toru Miyagawa of Toyota.

Toyota, he reckoned, had already passed through the first three stages of corporate decline and had reached the critical fourth.

The Toyota Prius website brings a bright and emotional way of showing all the advantages and benefits of a new Prius.

Hybrid vehicles like the Toyota Prius or the Chevrolet Volt have to rely on their petrol engines and gear boxes for extra zip.

The regulators' response, Mr. Sasaki said, was that Toyota couldn't expect that from every consumer.

Marmorini's comments come after Toyota team president John Howett said he had doubts KERS can be made ready in time for next season.

Instead, Toyota, a Japanese company, has made itself the market leader, with its fuel-sipping petrol-electric hybrid, the Prius.

The HS 250h is, in essence, a Lexus version of the Toyota Prius, but with a more sedate exterior design.

That day, he climbed into his Toyota Tacoma and drove to Marina State Beach to try out a new surfboard.

The scale of this recall is large , says Masayuki Naoshima , Toyota must deal with this issue properly and act to maintain consumer trust .

Its marketing machine has obfuscated for years, refusing to acknowledge that Toyota cars might be at fault.

Where, if at all, does the current routine for handling defective seats deviate from the principles of the Toyota Production System?

Hybrid vehicles like the Toyota Prius or the Chevrolet Volt have to use their petrol engines to get extra zip.

Toyota sales were down 16% for the year, forcing the company to idle its new pickup plant in Texas for three months.

Japanese carmaker Toyota has announced that it will suspend sales in the US of one of its luxury vehicles.

Yet by the middle of the last decade Toyota's virtue had become a vice.

In the future, the car could be equipped with a battery-electric powertrain like the one featured on the iQ-based Toyota FT-EV Concept.

Toyota is the company headquarters in Aichi, Japan held an annual general meeting of shareholders.

Toyota said the latest lawsuits were without merit.

Toyota's handling of the problem is a story of how a long-trusted carmaker lost sight of one of its bedrock principles.

That discrepancy is the result of aggressive cost-cutting on the part of Japanese exporters like Toyota and Sony.

Toyota plans to significantly rev up production to make up for lost output after the disaster-triggered manufacturing disruption.

Earlier this week, I introduced you to Toyota's Ideas for Good Innovation Weekend Event at Carnegie Mellon University.

A Toyota spokesman said that the carmaker is close to announcing a solution for cars in the United States.

Toyota calls its Product Owner the "Chief Engineer" since the individual filling the role is a highly regarded senior engineer.

The best part was all eight of us squeezed into my sister, Christine's Toyota Sequoia.

Toyota has filed an appeal against FIA stewards' decision to strip Jarno Trulli of his podium finish in Sunday's Australian grand prix.

Finding the cheapest source of funds is of course in Toyota's interest, but the timing of the news could be by design.

Toyota did not immediately comment on the NHTSA remarks.

That happened the day before in Chicago, rather than in Toyota Center, and on a day that Daryl Morey was in town to check on his progress.

Police allegedly sprayed the grey Toyota with at least 13 bullets after mistaking the occupants for hijackers.

Toyota said the recall repair is not legal.

Toyota, which has sold more than 3. 4 million hybrids worldwide so far, is targeting Prius plug-in sales of 60, 000 a year globally.

So while GM sold many different medium-sized models in markets around the world, Toyota and VW usually marketed just one or two.

Toyota will fix its manufacturing problem. Restoring its reputation is going to take a lot longer.

Toyota Motor Corp. had planned to use the technology in 2008 but delayed its use in products at least a couple of times.

Last month Toyota joined the ranks of UK carmakers warning of cuts in talks with its staff at its UK car plant at Burnaston near Derby.

Dozens of people have sued the company blaming faulty electronics for crashes or causing a drop in resale value of their Toyota vehicles.

But tension between NHTSA and Toyota continued to rise.

For the brave, blue chip equities he likes here include Toyota and Honda, and two of the better banks, Mitsubishi, and Sumitomo Mitsui.

Jack has got a great bargain. He even picks up the old Toyota of Mr. Lee's on the sly.