The most eagerly awaited sports car in decades, the Lexus LFA, made its debut as a production model at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show.

Japanese carmakers Honda and Toyota will display their eco-friendly concept cars at this month’s 2009 Tokyo Motor Show. Green technology and fuel efficiency will take center stage on the stands of most automakers at the show. The 41st Tokyo Motor Show will be held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba City for 13 days from October 23rd through November 4th..

Toyota, already having a recent spate of bad news over a massive 3.8 million vehicle recall (over floor mats, no less), is facing more trouble. It's possible, though admittedly unlikely, that Toyota could find its Prius, the most popular hybrid car made, banned, along with other Toyota hybrids.

Toyota is recalling 3.8 million vehicles over something that many owners would probably think is something that would never cause a crash. They'd be wrong. The recall is over removable floor mats.

The fifth generation of Toyota's SUV 4Runner 2010 will debut at The State Fair of Texas Auto Show (USA) in late September. In Japan Toyotas 4Runner is also known as Hilux Surf SUV.

America has voted in the U.S. government's "cash for clunkers" auto incentive program. Over 180,000 clunkers were traded in with Toyota Motor Corp overtaking Ford Motor Co as the top-selling vehicle.

The Japanese car making company Toyota has announced that their predicted profit loss for 2008 has tripled from their previous estimate. The company reports the loss after demand for its vehicles dropped.

On Tuesday Ford became the latest automaker to "plug-in" (pun intended) a date for a plug-in hybrid vehicle of its own, announcing it will have plug-in hybrid vehicles, promising 30 miles on battery power before the gasoline engine kicks in, by 2012.

FAW-Toyota, the joint venture between China's FAW Group and Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor, reported sales of 372,688 vehicles in 2008, surging by 129% over a year before, Shanghai Securities News reported today.

On Wednesday Toyota announced a massive global recall of three models, resulting in a total recall of 1.35 million vehicles worldwide.

As the global financial crisis is spreading, the Chinese auto industry suffers market downturn and is experiencing significantly slow growth. However, GAC Toyota, the joint-venture company between Chinese Guangzhou Auto and Japanese carmaker Toyota, is confident that it can achieve sales growth in 2009, Feng Xingya, vice general manager of GAC Toyota was quoted by Yangcheng Evening News as saying so.