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Toyota shook by Japanese quake, reporting 52% profit fall

11.05.11
Toyota posts a 52% fall in quarterly profit, giving no annual forecasts, as it struggles to measure the scope of the disruption to production after the Japanese earthquakes... more

Toyota sales 'will bounce back this month,' says chief

08.03.10
Toyota president Akio Toyoda says sales in North America will recover after a sharp decline as sales of some recalled models were suspended... more

Toyota wheels out US chief for another recall apology

23.02.10
Toyota parades another of its top executives to apologise for the safety scandal ripping through the company's worldwide operations... more

Toyota to shut UK plants as $100m 'cheap fix' deal emerges

22.02.10
The Toyota safety scandal deepens as officials were accused of boasting about saving the company $100 milion by negotiating a cheap fix for acceleration problems in 2007... more

Another Toyota model is facing recall over safety

17.02.10
Toyota is considering whether to recall another model - its popular Corolla compact - over safety fears... more

Hundreds of car owners flood Toyota phones amid Prius recall

09.02.10
Toyota is overwhelmed with more calls from worried drivers after it recalled 8,500 Prius cars over brake problems... more

Toyota 'to lose $2bn' from faulty accelerator recall

04.02.10
Toyota could lose $2 billion in costs and lost sales in the year to March from its car safety recall... more

Toyota say sorry as they pull out of F1

04.11.09
Toyota have quit Formula One and then apologised to their supporters for failing to win a race during their eight years in the sport... more

Toyota ‘is set to build hybrid cars in Britain’

14.07.09
Toyota is to build a major hybrid car in the UK for the first time, possibly creating thousands of new jobs, reports claimed ... more

Honda names new president amid slowdown

23.02.09
Motoring: Honda named Takanobu Ito as its new chief executive, in an effort to provide fresh leadership to battle a global crisis in the auto industry... more

Top execs face chop at Toyota

23.01.09
Japanese car giant Toyota is said to be preparing for a big jobs cull, but this time it will be executives getting the chop... more

Toyota loss signals end of road for president

24.12.08
Manufacturing: Toyota's 5000 UK workers are to get a new boss as president Katsuaki Watanabe gets ready to step down, taking the blame for the carmaker's first-ever loss... more


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