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Toyota Motor Corp. Shuts Dow Plant in Thailand

Nicholas — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:55:15 +0000

Carmaker Toyota Motor Corp. – which happens to be the world’s biggest carmaker – will reportedly stop production at a Thai plant, as it plans to move its output into the Southeast Asian nation.

According to the company spokeswoman Monika Saito, Toyota will shift production of the Hilux Vigo and Fortuna trucks to two of its three other factories in the country from the end of May 2010 onwards.

However, Saito also said that Toyota’s sales in Thailand in the first four months of this year increased by 43 percent to about 92,000 units from a year earlier,and that production and sales were in no way affected by the political unrest in Thailand.

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Consumer Reports Helps Lift Warning On Toyota Lexus SUV

Nicholas — Fri, 07 May 2010 08:29:01 +0000

Certain consumer Reports on Friday have helped lift the warning for people not to buy Toyota Motor Corp’s Lexus GX 460 SUV , after the automaker recalled vehicles for repairs.

According to reports, car giant Toyota shut down sales on April after Consumer Reports warned that the 2010 Lexus GX 460 was a safety hazard due to certain rollover concerns when the car takes turns.

According to Reuters,

“Toyota and its dealers resumed sales of the luxury SUV on April 29, after finding a fix for some 9,400 consumer-owned vehicles and making changes in production of new ones.”

Reports say that Toyota’s top ratings for quality have suffered greatly after more than 9 million of its vehicles have been recalled in the past few months.

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Prius problems deepen Toyota woes

sharjil s — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:58:04 +0000

Toyota’s troubles multiplied its flagship Prius hybrid became the latest model to be targeted in an expanding web of US investigations. Toyota decided to recall an estimated 270,000 Prius cars in Japan and the US to fix the brake problem.

The Japanese automaker has been hit by a whirlwind of safety concerns around the globe and US authorities are scrambling to assure concerned public and angry lawmakers who have begun their own probes into vehicle defects.

The admission of a brake design flaw with its star green car and the subsequent US probe are major new blows that could not have come at a worse time for the world’s largest automaker.

Toyota was already under fire in the US for its handling of massive recalls affecting about eight million vehicles worldwide “more than its entire 2009 global sales of 7.8 million vehicles “due to accelerator trouble.

The latest developments were particularly worrying for Toyota because the Prius has created a global buzz and been Japan’s top-selling car since June “ahead of its main rival, Honda’s Insight.

Toyota had sold nearly 1.5 million Prius vehicles in 40 countries as of August 31 since the first version’s launch in 1997, making it the world’s most popular hybrid car.