Toyota

Congratulation to Toyota for retaining its position as the world’s top-rated automotive brand in the 2011 global brand value report from Interbrand (More details can be found at http://www.interbrand.com).   Improving its performance by 6% on 2010, Toyota commands 11th place overall in the annual study. Moreover, Interbrand named Toyota as the world’s greenest brand, based on a global survey ...

For the first time for Toyota to selling its made-in-India cars outside India, the Indian-made Etios sedan will be exported to South Africa from March 2012. The Japanese automaker said the models for South Africa will be designed especially for that market.   Japan’s top automaker is counting on newer markets such as India to keep its vehicle production growth going. ...

Yesterday, Toyota announced that the global vehicle production of Toyota has recovered to pre-tsunami levels as of last month.   The massive Japan earthquake and tsunami on March 11 in northeastern Japan disrupted production of Toyota and other automakers because parts suppliers in northeastern Japan were damaged.   Toyota initially said it didn’t expect production to return to normal until ...

Due to increase demand of “kei” car in Japan, Toyota is now selling its very first minicar in Japanese Domestic Market (JDM).   Minicar, or “kei,” are defined under Japanese regulations as having maximum length of 3.4 meters, width of 1.48 meters, height of 2 meters and engine displacement of less than 660cc. Taxes are lower for minicars, which now make ...

Currently, Toyota sources batteries, inverters and motors solely from their home country in Japan for all its hybrid vehicles, including the most popular Toyota Prius.   [singlepic id=8759 w=630 h= float=]  After the Massive Japan Earthquake & Tsunami, it has shown the vulnerability of the decision to put all of your eggs in one basket by most of the Japanese Automakers. ...

[singlepic id=8688 w=630 h= float=] The 2012 Toyota Prius facelift has now made its world premiere at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. The entire research & development activity of this facelift model is almost unvoiced and without much information leakage. Though, it is a big surprise from Toyota.   [singlepic id=8690 w=630 h= float=] [singlepic id=8671 w=630 h= float=] On ...

The long awaited (in fact, very long awaited) Toyota FT-86 is still yet to arrive while Toyota schedule to preview yet another new version of the concept out to the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show.     According to Toyota, this latest edition is a slightly revised version of the FT-86 II concept that we’ve already seen. Toyota has just released ...

For many decades, Toyota had visibly gained a well reputation for exceptional sturdiness and reliability on its Land Cruiser and Hilux pickup truck (including in the recent Libya conflict).   [singlepic id=8434 w=630 h= float=] The Hilux had well proven on our common civilians’ road and heavy use plus abuse at war field as a type of improvised fighting vehicle ...