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Toyota recalls 6.5 million cars
- 21/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Japanese carmaker Toyota has said it will recall 6.5 million vehicles worldwide over a faulty window switch. The power switch could potentially short-circuit, causing parts to overheat and could lead to a fire. Toyota has already recalled some 10 million cars globally that were fitted with faulty air [...] -
Toyota unveils bold new environmental targets
- 14/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
With the aim of contributing to global environmental sustainability, Toyota has developed an ambitious set of goals to be achieved over the next 35 years. Addressing key global environmental issues such as climate change, water shortages, resource depletion, and degradation of biodiversity, the Toyota Environmental [...] -
Toyota self-driving cars by 2020
- 07/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Toyota has unveiled its vision for self-driving cars, promising to start selling autonomous vehicles in Japan by 2020. Toyota demonstrated on a Tokyo motorway what it called the ‘mobility team-mate concept’, meaning the driver and the artificial intelligence in a sensor-packed car work together as a team. In [...] -
Spies Hecker tops Toyota competition
- 17/09/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
The winner and runner-up of the 2015 Toyota Paint Technician Skills competition are from Spies Hecker bodyshops. The winner, Martin Moss from RRG Toyota in Bolton, Lancashire, will now go on to compete in the 25th Annual Assembly of International Customer Service Champions in Japan in October 2015. ‘Martin was [...] -
Toyota invests $50m in autonomous cars
- 08/09/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Toyota is making a major investment into developing intelligent and self-driving vehicles alongside two leading US universities. Over the next five years, Toyota Motor Corporation will invest approximately $50 million (about £32 million) in establishing joint research centres at both Stanford and the [...] -
Toyota Safety Sense added to small cars
- 05/08/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Where Toyotas are concerned, being small is no barrier to benefiting from the latest safety technology. The Aygo city car and Yaris supermini are now available with Toyota Safety Sense, providing a range of features that can help prevent an accident happening, or reduce the severity of an impact. Toyota Safety [...] -
VW overtakes Toyota’s global sales
- 28/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Volkswagen overtook Toyota as the world's largest carmaker in terms of sales in the first half year, achieving its long-held ambition three years ahead of target. But remaining on top will be a challenge for the German maker of the Golf and Polo, as deliveries are falling in China, the destination of a third of its [...] -
Toyota recalls 625,000 hybrids
- 15/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Toyota, the world’s largest car manufacturer, is recalling about 625,000 hybrid cars worldwide to fix a software glitch. A fault in the software could lead to shutting down the hybrid system, potentially while the car is being driven. Models affected by the recall include Prius V minivans, called Prius Alpa [...] -
Toyota Mirai goes the distance
- 02/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
The new Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell vehicle has proved it can go the distance, achieving 67 miles per gallon in official US combined city/highway driving calculations, and an estimated driving range of 312 miles on a single tank – a distance further than for any other zero-emissions car on the market. Jim [...] -
Japanese carmakers expand Takata airbag recall
- 25/06/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
BBC reports that Japanese car giants Toyota, Nissan and Mitsubishi have expanded a recall of cars to replace airbags made by Takata. The recalls had initially been issued in North America, but have now been extended to the rest of the world. The carmakers said they were calling back a total of 3.2 million cars [...]