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DETROIT - The Toyota Camry, the bestselling car in the U.S., performed poorly this year in a new crash test and failed to get the best safety rating from an insurance industry group. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gave the Camry a "Poor" rating on a test that measures …

DETROIT - The U.S. government has hit Toyota Motor Corp. with a record $17.4 million fine for failing once again to quickly report problems to federal regulators and for delaying a safety recall. The fine against the world's biggest automaker from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the agency that …

Looking to buy a brand new car? The fall season is typically one that is rife with incentives from automakers looking to clear out as much inventory as they can to make space for the arrival of next year's models. A recent study by Unhaggle has revealed that this is …

TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 2.77 million vehicles around the world for a water pump problem and a steering shaft defect that may result in faulty steering _ the latest in a spate of quality woes for Japan's top automaker. No accidents have been reported related to these …

SUSONO, Japan _ Toyota Motor Corp. is testing car safety systems that allow vehicles to communicate with each other and with the roads they are on in a just completed facility in Japan the size of three baseball stadiums. The cars at the Intelligent Transport System site receive information from …

The company said Friday it sold 7.4 million vehicles globally in the first nine months of this year _ 450,000 more than General Motors. While Toyota's sales rose 28 per cent in that period, GM's rose 2.5 per cent, to 6.95 million cars and light-duty trucks. Toyota's factories were hobbled …

Have you ever been up late at night flipping channels on your television and thought, 'if only I could pick up the phone right now and buy a car?' Toyota seems to think that the answer to that question might be yes, which explains the brand's recent foray into direct …

Chances are even the most hardcore towers reading this article have never had the occasion to haul something quite as large as the Space Shuttle. Before you counter with the claim that the world's first reusable orbiter is obviously too large to be tugged along by a mere pickup truck …

In perhaps one of the more shocking stories to have hit the newswire this past week comes a report from Autoblog that Toyota is actually investing time and effort into the design and possible production of a high performance edition of the Toyota Avalon. The Avalon, which is typically thought …

Program ensures Canadians can buy the most proven, most popular hybrids with confidence Drivers have purchased more than 69,000 Toyota Hybrid Vehicles since the first Prius arrived in Canada in 2000. Now, responding to customer demand for the most proven hybrid models in the country, Toyota has expanded its popular …