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Toyota plans to launch a small car in the Chinese market in 2013. The small car will be powered by a 1.5-liter engine and is expected to be slightly larger than the Etios. The company plans to price the car below 1 million yen (Rs. 6 lakhs). To achieve this price point, Toyota plans to [...]

Toyota has received the coveted prize of the being the world’s greenest brand. The survey was conducted by international brand consultancy Interbrand. Few parameters considered by the company included environmental performance and public perception of the brand’s environmental sustainability. The data was collected from France, Germany, UK, Italy, USA, Japan, Brazil and India. Toyota emerged [...]

Toyota has announced further increase of its production capacity to 3,10,000 units by 2013. The company had earlier announced its intention to increase production from 1,50,000 units to 2,10,000 units by first half of 2012. The production in the first plant will be enhanced from 90,000 units to 1,00,000 units and in the second plant [...]

Toyota has launched all the cars it had declared it would a couple of years ago. There is no new car awaited from the Japanese automaker except refreshes of the current vehicles and new variants. However the company has declared its intention to launch more small cars in the country. Toyota is planning to partner [...]

In India, the corporate world behaves in herd mentality kind of way. If one person enters into a particular business, you can expect almost everyone else to follow through. The same can be said in the automotive world, where German car giants Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes-Benz have started a finance arm to push sales of [...]

Toyota will resume normal operations earlier than expected. In the wake of disruption in supplies the company had earlier suspended production on Mondays and Fridays between 25th April and 4th June. The company’s parts sourcing is getting back on track, production will return back to normal levels starting 20th May, 2011. Plans are afoot to [...]

Toyota India has decided to make temporary production adjustments due to supply difficulties, following the March 11, earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The company will suspend production on Mondays and Fridays between April 25 and June 4. The Japanese automaker will operate at approx 30% of its normal capacity during this period. However this will [...]

Toyota has gone ahead and increased the prices of the Corolla Altis, Innova and Fortuner. The company has hiked prices of the Innova between Rs. 12,557/- and Rs. 18,424/-, Corolla Altis Diesel between Rs. 14,100/- to Rs. 17,700/- and the Fortuner by Rs. 20,000/-. The price hike is effective from April 1, 2011 and is [...]

Toyota has announced the start of its yearly service campaign Suhana Summer in India. The service campaign will offer free check up for all Toyota models and will be conducted across Toyota dealerships from April 1, 2011 to April 30, 2011. The Japanese automaker has launched this service campaign in 122 dealerships across India. Under [...]

Toyota plans to focus more on emerging markets like India to boost its profitability. The company plans to introduce 10 new hybrid models by 2015. Toyota will also cut its board strength from the current 27 members to just 11 members to speed up decision making for the company. The Global Vision (as Toyota likes [...]