A planned management buyout of auto parts maker Pacific Industrial sparked a backlash from one of its investors, pressuring the Tokyo Stock Exchange to provide more protection for minority shareholders in such deals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/08/companies/toyota-mbo-backlash-investors/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #carmakers #tse #pacificindustrial #stocks
Toyota Motor has amassed a growing after sales and service operation that keeps 150 million of its vehicles on roads around the planet, with the business poised to become the company’s biggest source of profit. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/08/companies/toyota-after-service-top/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #carmakers #electricvehicles
Toyota Motor Chairperson Akio Toyoda’s proposal to buy out Toyota Industries for ¥4.7 trillion has been delayed because the approval process under antitrust laws in various countries is taking longer than anticipated. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/07/companies/toyota-industries-delay-buyout/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #akiotoyoda #toyota #carmakers #acquisitions #toyotaindustries
Toyota Motor plans to install 500 more high-speed chargers for electric cars at dealerships in Japan — a goal that falls short of a pledge it made to install 10 times that number. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/30/companies/toyota-more-ev-chargers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #electricvehicles #cars #carmakers
Toyota’s record sales run, including steady growth in China and North America, has lost steam after a sharp drop back home in Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/29/toyota-global-sales-slow/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #toyota #cars #carmakers
With more and more Formula One drivers debuting in their teens or early 20s, a rookie in their 30s would seemingly be a pipedream. Don’t tell that to Ryo Hirakawa. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/09/28/more-sports/ryo-hirakawa-chasing-f1-dream/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #ryohirakawa #worldendurancechampionship #toyotagazooracing #toyota #formulaone #haas
Amid a global motorsports boom, the World Endurance Championship on Sunday celebrated its 100th race at Shizuoka Prefecture’s Fuji Speedway. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/09/28/more-sports/wec-momentum/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #worldendurancechampionship #shizuoka #cars #carmakers #toyota #bmw #tech
Toyota has opened the doors to the first phase of Woven City, its experimental town meant to act as an incubator for technologies from autonomous driving to artificial intelligence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/26/companies/toyota-opens-woven-city/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #wovencity #carmakers #electricvehicles #shizuoka #tech
Nagoya-based GomunoInaki, which supplies rubber components to Toyota and Denso, is betting on an unlikely new growth engine: menstrual cups. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/16/toyota-suppiler-menstrual-cup-prodution/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #gomunoinaki #toyota #menstruation
Toyota Motor has introduced a five-stage internal qualification system for maintaining quality at vehicle certification test sites and developing related human resources. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/10/companies/toyota-qualification-fraud/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mlit #toyota #carmakers #fraud
Toyota manufactured and sold a record number of cars in July, stretching the carmaker’s streak to a seventh consecutive month, on strong demand in the U.S. and China despite global trade uncertainties. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/28/companies/toyota-record-sales-seven-months/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #cars
When reigning Super Formula and Super GT champion Sho Tsuboi drove a Haas Formula One car at Fuji Speedway earlier this month, it was the realization of a childhood dream. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/08/21/more-sports/tsuboi-haas-f1-test/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #shotsuboi #formulaone #fujispeedway #ryohirakawa #haas #toyota
Toyota Motor has lowered its annual guidance as it warned of a ¥1.4 trillion hit to operating income from U.S. tariffs that have rattled the global automotive industry. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/07/companies/toyota-cuts-outlook/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #carmakers #cars #tariffs #donaldtrump #honda
Toyota saw record global sales during the first half of 2025 as strong demand for hybrid vehicles in core markets helped offset headwinds from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on cars imported to the United States. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/30/companies/toyota-record-global-sales/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #carmakers #cars #electricvehicles #hybrids #tariffs #honda #nissan
Inside Toyota, a group of employees are worried about the company’s future in an era when a car’s software matters just as much as its sheet metal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/28/companies/toyota-digital-transformation-effort/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #carmakers #tech #digitalization
Japan's Nidec is building an almost totally "made-in-China” electric car motor to help Toyota compete in the world’s largest auto market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/16/companies/nidec-china-toyota/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #nidec #toyota #carmakers #china #electricvehicles
Suzuki beat out Mercedes-Benz to become Japan’s top car importer in June, thanks to the Jimny Nomad and another popular small SUV assembled in India. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/04/companies/suzuki-top-importer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #suzuki #honda #toyota #carmakers #tariffs #donaldtrump #india
Japanese carmakers have largely absorbed the cost of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on auto imports, a move that may undermine the Asian nation’s negotiating power ahead of a July 9 deadline. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/03/companies/japan-carmakers-absorb-tariffs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #carmakers #cars #toyota #donaldtrump #tariffs
Toyota is delaying its production of electric vehicles in the U.S. to free up capacity for a popular gas-powered sports utility vehicle amid softening demand for plug-ins. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/02/companies/toyota-delays-ev-plans/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #us #electricvehicles #gas
Toyota’s sales reached a third straight monthly record in May, even as global automakers braced for big losses triggered by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported cars. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/27/companies/toyota-may-sales-monthly-record/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #carmakers #tariffs #us #hybrids