Jim Press, the top man of Toyota’s North American operations, got the approval from shareholders last Friday to become the first non-Japanese member of the automaker’s board of directors. Press, 60, a 37-year Toyota Motor Corp. veteran, was named to the board in April as part of the company’s initiative to boost its international standing. [...]

Certain brands, names and suchlike will never go out of fashion, regardless of how time’s withered claw defaces them; let me give you a few examples. You will never be mocked for listening to the music of the Rolling Stones, the Sega Master system will always provide hours of genuine 8-bit entertainment and denim jeans [...]

Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service’s Fleet Manager John Millett said that more than 50 fire service staff has switched from being user-choosers to driving a range of Toyota Avensis diesel cars and the switching has been a smooth one. Manufactured at Toyota’s plant in Burnaston (Derbyshire), the Avensis 2.2-liter D-4D diesels, all equipped with top [...]

When you travel across the country on the interstate highway system, you are obliged to share the road with all manner of vehicles, including large big rig trucks transporting goods across the country. These big rigs, moving at a high rate of speed can be intimidating to other drivers in normal sized vehicles. Big truck [...]

Ford van servicing is now much cheaper, for those in the know. Thanks to European legislation, you no longer have to be tied to high Ford van service costs, dictated by your local dealer. In October 2003 new European legislation affecting the motor industry came into force called “Block Exemption Regulation” 14002002 (BER), and this [...]

The advertisements are showing it, the dealers are shouting about it, and everyone wants to see it for himself or herself. What’s all the excitement? The 2006 Ford Focus has hit the dealer floors, and it’s just as sharp, if not sharper than the 2005 Ford Focus. This little economical car gets an average of [...]

Growth of any industry lies in its capability to foresight the upcoming opportunities. The progressive future of trucking companies depends upon their prospective adaptability to the changing environment. Perhaps, whichever course the trucking industry may follow, one thing is absolutely certain that the software technology would play a significant role in its journey to success. [...]

An automotive sales index online has identified the Toyota Tundra as one of the best-selling vehicles built in America and its partly attributed to the new Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas Inc. plant in San Antonio. And for the first time, the Tundra which was built at the facilities in Princeton, Ind., and San Antonio with [...]

For the first time this season, Toyota has earned its NASCAR Nextel Cup pole position, thanks to Dave Blaney, who drove his No. 22 Caterpillar Toyota Camry and set the fastest lap time in the recent practice test that took place at the New Hampshire International Speedway in Loudon. Blaney pushed his Toyota “Car of [...]

A wide array of Visteon high technology features would be offered in the newest models of the Ford Galaxy and the Ford S-MAX. These two Ford vehicles are the latest vehicle models to be presented and for sale in Europe. And with these Ford vehicles being new, up to date, and known for a futuristic [...]