I reckon the people who run Toyota are running into some trouble making deliveries for their U.S. prone brand, Scion. The winter must certainly be a factor. Otherwise it’s difficult to understand why the Scion iQ would have been delayed until summer. Unless, of course, you understand marketing.
Nissan’s GT-R has been a fascination ever since the Skyline GT-R made a comeback in the late eighties. Since then, many things have changed but the GT-R’s ability to capture the audience isn’t one of them. This is especially true in regards of the current R35 Nissan GT-R. In fact, the 2012 version due for
After cherishing the recent sales success of the Toyota Prius, the Japanese have just announced that they think their hybrid synergy drive vehicle can make it to first place. That’s right, Toyota consider that their hybrid will be its top-selling U.S. vehicle sometime soon.
Somehow, Toyota can’t manage to avoid the previous problems, especially when it comes to mentioning legal repercussions of the unintended acceleration situation. Boy did I ever say that politically. Toyota screwed up big time and they paid through the nose for it.
We’ve heard before of varying collaborations between Toyota and Subaru. We’ve also heard about the particular FT-86 test mule hitting the Nurburgring. Despite all the rumors and chatter there’s very little to actually know about the FT-86 Coupe.
In the olden days, in good quality movies it was impossible to kill the baddie. In present times however, things have slightly changed. For Toyota at least, the baddie was their enormous and unrivaled recall for unintended acceleration problems. While they have “killed the recall off” some problems it generated keep cropping up.
As one of the manufacturers that seriously felt a drop in sales once word of something called a financial crisis came up, Mitsubishi just got a breath of fresh air last month. November saw Mitsubishi sales in the U.S. grow by as much as 47%.
A recent report from Japan tells us that Toyota has planned for a change in directions as far as future car production is concerned. The “star” of the biggest and most troublesome recall in history has decided to cut back on production plans for 2011.
In a recent announcement from the Japanese we find that they are soon to kill off what has been described as “the first ever cool Honda”. Cool or not, the Element has had a 9 year run and with recent sales numbers being poor Honda saw at as no longer economically viable.
I’ve been banging on lately about Hyundai and their coming from behind to overtake Toyota as Europe’s largest Asian car manufacturer pretty much proves me right. Kia isn’t yet best manufacturer overall but overtaking Toyota is quite an achievement.
Well at least financially that’s what happening to the Japanese Zoom Zoom car maker. The actual term is something rather financial as Mazda’s largest shareholder will no longer be Ford but in fact a bank which is based in Tokyo.
It seems that sales figures really make for celebration reasons these days, and why not because when troubled times hit and words like financial crisis, economy and other stuff like that come along selling a car is slowly turning into a bit of a miracle. So after Mazda celebrated sales figures of their iconic MX-5
The legendary Japanese roadster will soon see British showroom floors in a couple of special edition variants. Borrowing its name from a Japanese holiday island this particular special edition will be called the Mazda MX-5 Miyako.
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
Pending a recent review of a few brochures we’ve got some information on the Japanese domestic market version of the subtly refreshed 2011 Lexus IS sedan. From what we can make out so far both IS 250/350 JDM versions will receive some subtle styling changes but some more things hide underneath the cover.
The economic climate may be recovering, slowly for most, rapidly for some but it’s effects haven’t worn off the population. In order to please the market which is getting an ever growing taste for electric vehicles but isn’t yet ready to let go of the price cuts, incentives and so on Mitsubishi have announced that
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.
In a recent official statement, Lexus have publicly announced that the SC 430 luxury hardtop convertible is reaching the end of its lifecycle. The Lexus SC 430 has had an impressive lifespan with almost no changes except for a few special editions for almost ten years.
According to a report last Friday by French newspaper “Les Echos” the negotiations that had been undergoing at PSA with Mitsubishi may be nearing a conclusion. PSA/Peugeot-Citroen and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation have been talking about using one of the Japanese company’s platforms for small, low-range cars.
