GR 86 is a track tested and pro-driver-approved sports car, allowing the 2022 GR 86 to earn Toyota’s Gazoo Racing badge. The 2.4-liter flat-four boxer engine is tuned to hit peak torque at lower RPMs, giving the feel of more linear acceleration. The boxer engine pumps out power through four horizontally-opposed cylinder. For the 2022…
Toyota Scraps V8 in Redesign of New Tundra Truck
Toyota is dumping the big V8 engine in the latest redesign of its Tundra full-size pickup truck, a bold move in a market that likes big, powerful engines. The 381 horsepower, 5.7-liter V8 will be replaced by a base 389 horsepower 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6 or an optional gas-electric hybrid system with 437 horsepower. The change…
Tesla, Toyota Spar With Ford, UAW Over EV Tax Bill
WASHINGTON—Toyota Motor Corp. and Tesla clashed with Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union over a proposal by Democrats in the U.S. House to give union-made, U.S.–built electric vehicles an additional $4,500 tax incentive. In a letter to Congress, Toyota said the plan discriminates against nearly half of American autoworkers who do…
Toyota, Honda Oppose US House Electric Vehicle Tax Plan
WASHINGTON—Toyota Motor Corp and Honda Motor Co on Saturday sharply criticized a proposal by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to give union-made electric vehicles in the United States an additional $4,500 tax incentive. Toyota said in a statement that the plan unveiled late Friday discriminates “against American autoworkers based on their choice not…
Toyota Cuts Production Target by 3 Percent on Parts and Chips Shortages
TOKYO—Toyota Motor Corp. cut its annual production target by 300,000 vehicles on Friday as rising COVID-19 infections slowed output at parts factories in Vietnam and Malaysia, compounding a global shortage of auto chips. “It’s a combination of the coronavirus and semiconductors, but at the moment it is the coronavirus that is having the overwhelming impact,”…
Toyota to Spend $13.5 Billion to Develop EV Battery Tech and Supply by 2030
TOKYO—Toyota Motor Corp said on Tuesday it expects to spend more than $13.5 billion by 2030 to develop batteries and its battery supply system—a bid to lead in the key automotive technology over the next decade. The world’s largest automaker by volume, which pioneered hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles with the popular Prius, is now moving rapidly…
Toyota Halts All Self-Driving E-palette Vehicles After Olympic Village Accident
August 27, 2021
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Toyota Motor said on Friday it had suspended all self-driving e-Palette transportation pods at the Tokyo Paralympic Games village, a day after one of the vehicles collided with and injured a visually impaired pedestrian. In a YouTube video, Toyota Chief Executive Akio Toyoda apologized for the incident and said he offered to meet the person…
Toyota to Cut Production by Up to 60 Percent Due to Parts Shortage
August 19, 2021
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A pandemic-driven parts crunch is forcing Toyota to cut production by 40 percent in assembly plants in Japan and by as much as 60 percent in North America. Japan’s top automaker said in an Aug. 19 factory operation notice that it would be slashing production by around 40 percent across 14 plants in Japan, while a…
Toyota Slashes Production on Lockdown-Related Parts Shortage
TOKYO—Toyota is scaling its production back 40 percent, affecting 14 auto assembly plants in Japan, as coronavirus pandemic-related lockdowns in Southeast Asia crimp parts supplies. Japan’s top automaker said Thursday production will halt completely next month at some plants and partly at others, affecting a wide range of models, including the Corolla subcompact, Prius hybrid,…
Toyota Ends Donations to Targeted Republican Lawmakers After Lincoln Project Ad
Japanese automaker Toyota’s Political Action Committee (PAC) announced Thursday it will end its policy of giving financial contributions to U.S. lawmakers who objected to the certification of the results of the 2020 presidential election, after the anti-Trump PAC, the Lincoln Project ran an ad slamming the company for donating to those Republican lawmakers. “In fact,…
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