Cops Raid Toyota Plant In Japan
Photo: Yoshikazu TSUNO (Getty Images) Toyota is having a bad time. The company’s kei car wing has been forging crash test results, and its diesels have had “irregularities” in horsepower …
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Activist Group Fools Journalists With AI Hoax Criticizing Toyota’s Anti-EV Views
Some members of the automotive press were bamboozled by a Toyota press release and accompanying conference last week. The story was that, in order to promote the company’s electrified offerings, …
Toyota Is Moving Prewar 700-Ton Press Halfway Around The World
Toyota closed its São Bernardo Plant in November 2023, marking the end of its first overseas production facility. The closure caps off a period of continuous car production in São …
Mazda Still Insists It Can Bring Back The Rotary Sports Car, Is Dedicating A Team Of Engineers To Do It
Photo: Mazda It’s been more than a decade since the last Mazda RX-8 rolled off the production line. The RX-8 didn’t make a massive amount of power, but it sure …
The Lexus LBX Morizo Is The Luxurious GR Yaris Toyota Needs To Build
Image: Lexus Toyota was lucky enough to give U.S. buyers the GR Corolla. It’s the textbook definition of a hot hatch, and we love it. Unfortunately, there are still some …
Hertz Is Getting Rid Of 20,000 EVs
Happy Friday! It’s January 12, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one place. Here …
Car Buying Is Hard When You’re Paying Student Loans
Happy Thursday! It’s January 11, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one place. Here …
Daihatsu Admits It Forged Crash Test Results For 30 Years
Last week we reported on Daihatsu halting sales and shipments of all of its cars amid a probe into the Toyota subsidiary rigging safety tests of 64 different models, and …
I’m A College Kid Looking For A Reliable Ride! What Car Should I Buy?
Matt is helping his eighteen-year-old niece search for the right set of wheels before she goes off to college. She is currently driving an old Prius that is no longer …
Toyota Will Only Make 10,000 Solid State EV Batteries In 2030
This butt plug, sorry, “pear-shaped boiling flask” contains the solid-state electrolyte that Toyota claims will give us 900-mile EVsPhoto: Toyota Toyota is still moving forward with its plan to produce …