NEW TOYOTA PRESIDENT Akio Toyoda announced this week that the world’s biggest carmaker will fast-track development of its upcoming lightweight entry-level RWD sports car.

Speaking at the 2009 Center for Automotive Research Conference, Mr Toyoda - an avid performance car enthusiast - said he personally wanted to see more driving fun injected into Toyota’s model line-up.
“My [...]

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NEW TOYOTA PRESIDENT Akio Toyodo, the 53 year-old grandson of the company’s founder, has something of a speeding problem. Thankfully, he keeps his need for speed to the race tracks, with his most recent outing being behind the wheel of one of two Lexus LF-A test cars during the Nurburgring 24 Hour Race.

However, unlike [...]

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TUESDAY SAW THE swearing in of new Toyota president Akio Toyoda - grandson of the company’s founder - and in a speech to the number one carmaker’s shareholders, Mr Toyoda acknowledged the trials the manufacturer is facing.
“The new Toyota sets sail in very stormy waters,” Mr Toyoda said. “But right now we’re working at [...]

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AKIO TOYODA, the man responsible for the Lexus LF-A supercar and the M3-rivalling IS-F sports sedan, begins his job as President of Toyota today, after 25 years with the company.

Grandson of Kiichiro Toyoda, the founder of Toyota, 52-year-old Akio Toyoda takes over from 66-year-old Katsuaki Watanabe, who has been Toyota chief [...]

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As the adage goes, you take the good with the bad - something that Toyota is experiencing at the moment.

In the wake of Toyota’s first loss in 71 years, reports are trickling in that Toyota has received a whopping 180,000 Japanese orders for the third-gen Prius within the space of a month - a good [...]

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It was only last week that we learnt that the ‘always in development never on sale’ Lexus LF-A was heading back to the ‘Ring to compete in the Nurburgring 24-hour endurance race in May.

The latest news is that incoming Toyota President, Akio Toyoda (grandson of the company’s founder) will be enjoying some wheel time during [...]

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What happens when the unstoppable juggernaut meets the immovable object? In the case of the global economic crisis versus Toyota and Subaru’s joint rear-wheel-drive sports car, there’s hope that new Toyota president Akio Toyoda has found a solution to that age-old riddle.

In an interview with the press at the recent Tokyo Auto Salon, speed-loving Toyota [...]

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Akio Toyoda, grandson of Toyota founder Kiichiro Toyoda, is expected to be voted in as president of Toyota Motor Corporation by the company’s board.  Associated Press has reported that the 52 year-old Toyoda will take over from current president Katsuaki Watanabe in June, following the news that Toyota is facing its first projected operating loss [...]

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Since its debut at the 2005 Detroit Auto Show, Lexus’s upcoming LF-A sports coupe has endured an agonisingly long development period. To make matters worse, Lexus announced back in August that worsening economic conditions had forced it to place the super-coupe project on the backburner. Needless to say, the groan of disappointment from Lexus fans [...]

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