New Toyota Recall for 270.000 vehicles with engine issues

The Japanese officials admitted that around 270,000 vehicles sold globally including Lexus models, reported engine trouble. The engine may stop while driving the car.

After being hit by a massive recall earlier this year, when they had to recall about 8 million vehicles due to acceleration problems, now, the Japanese at Toyota are facing a new problem. This time Toyota recognize that approximately 270,000 units sold worldwide, including Lexus models have serious engine problems.
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Toyota brings rally heritage reminder to Goodwood

As most of you very well know, the Goodwood Festival of Speed is less then a week away and most manufacturers will try to get a piece of publicity over there.

Toyota, for example, will be coming in and they will be refreshing our memories of what sort of rally heritage they have.
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Toyota Supra replacement not shelved

Confirmation on this situation is awaited but since the rumor had been killed off before you never know what might happen with this one that’s just been revised and revived.

According to this rumor we can hear some interesting things, namely that Toyota is working on a new MR2 and a Supra, most importantly a hybrid option.
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Engine of the year results

The 2010 International Engine of the Year awards seen an end to proceedings and in that end there were ten different engines being honored in 11 categories, plus an overall winner chosen.

The engines were rated by a jury of automotive journalists from around the world had the difficult task of rating the engines and ranking each of them in categories that featured sizes from sub 1 liter three cylinders to a 6.2 liter V8 and go from mild to wild.
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Toyota’s Mississippi plant we’ll be resuming activities

Toyota have just announced that they will recommence construction on its Mississippi plant about the same time they are going to begin producing the Corolla there late next year.

With the Corolla being produced at this particular plant once again a major shift in production will occur due to the current climate.
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May brings along a rise in Hybrid sales

May seems to have become hybrid awareness month as sales of these cars soared the past month and have been the best since last August.

As always, leaders of the market have been the Toyota Prius and the Ford Fusion hybrid.
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Lexus LFA engine note commercial

You may remember the announcement made yesterday that made it clear that Toyota have sold out all 500 units of the Lexus LFA.

This hasn’t stopped them from releasing a commercial they must have been preparing for some time and I have to say I’m glad they didn’t decide to drop it.
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Lexus LFA not sold out

It would appear that the recent fuss about Toyota’s high performance creation entitled the Lexus LFA being sold out may have been slightly out of context.

There’s also been a major change in market placement as the original cap of 150 LFA’s which were registered for Stateside consumption has increased to a total of 171, although it’s unclear where they will be subtracted from.
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The Lexus LFA is sold out

Skeptics, among who I count myself, looked at the Lexus LFA and said Toyota have definitely lost its mind to do such a thing as the car is definitely not worth the asking price.

We were wrong, we were badly wrong, Toyota have just announced that it has already booked orders and taken down payments of all 500 units of the Lexus LFA.
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NHTSA says Toyota’s acceleration problems caused 89 deaths

The title pretty much says it all as a recent report of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Toyota vehicles were involved in unintended acceleration accidents that have totalled 89 deaths since 2000.

This figure is a worryingly increase compared to the previously reported figure of 52 fatalities due to the issue.
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