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Due to the massive floods in Thailand, many production outputs had been disrupted. This tragedy have causes a supply shortage of auto parts worldwide including North America and Japan.   [singlepic id=8232 w=630 h= float=] Toyota has recently announced to resume its production at Thai plant on November 21, 2011, the production halted since October 10, 2011 because of the severe ...

Congratulation to Toyota for retaining its position as the world’s top-rated automotive brand in the 2011 global brand value report from Interbrand (More details can be found at http://www.interbrand.com).   Improving its performance by 6% on 2010, Toyota commands 11th place overall in the annual study. Moreover, Interbrand named Toyota as the world’s greenest brand, based on a global survey ...

For the first time for Toyota to selling its made-in-India cars outside India, the Indian-made Etios sedan will be exported to South Africa from March 2012. The Japanese automaker said the models for South Africa will be designed especially for that market.   Japan’s top automaker is counting on newer markets such as India to keep its vehicle production growth going. ...

Yesterday, Toyota announced that the global vehicle production of Toyota has recovered to pre-tsunami levels as of last month.   The massive Japan earthquake and tsunami on March 11 in northeastern Japan disrupted production of Toyota and other automakers because parts suppliers in northeastern Japan were damaged.   Toyota initially said it didn’t expect production to return to normal until ...

Recently, analysts who analyse the automotive industry are predicting automakers and dealers may be under pressure to cut selling price or offer freebies to boost sales volume as the depressing economic market continue to affect consumer sentiment and confidence.     For that reason, we are forecasting there will be a Car Price War in next to no time since ...

The imported Honda Civic Type R FD2 and Civic Hybrid are not affected by the latest recall by Honda Malaysia. The recall only involves the local Civic CKD models after reconfirmed by Honda Malaysia officially.   For 2006-2008 Civic, it is reported that affected units experienced oil leakage from the power steering feed hose, caused by deterioration from running in hot ...

Today, Honda Motor Co. announced a global recall of more than 900,000 vehicles.  In Malaysia, Civic of Year 2006-2008, City of Year 2006-2007 and Jazz of Year 2005-2007 will be recall under this product update campaign. According to the Japanese automaker, the campaign aims to implement preventive measures against undesired technical issues in the affected units.   Back in July, ...

German company RSC says it will build a hypercar named RSC Predator GT with 2089kW of power, 3494Nm of torque and a 0-600km/h time of 7.0 seconds. It can also apparently get to 300 km/h in the same amount of time it takes a Nissan GT-R or Porsche 911 Turbo S to get to 100km/h.   RSC has reportedly been working on ...