• Toyota recalls 6.5 million cars

    • October 21, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Japanese carmaker Toyota has said it will recall 6.5 million vehicles worldwide over a faulty window switch. The power switch could potentially short-circuit, causing parts to overheat and could lead to a fire. Toyota has already recalled some 10 million cars globally that were fitted with faulty air bags linked to a number of deaths. The [...]
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  • Toyota invests $50m in autonomous cars

    • September 8, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Toyota is making a major investment into developing intelligent and self-driving vehicles alongside two leading US universities. Over the next five years, Toyota Motor Corporation will invest approximately $50 million (about £32 million) in establishing joint research centres at both Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to further its expertise in computer science and human-machine interaction with [...]
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  • Japanese carmakers expand Takata airbag recall

    • June 25, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Japanese carmakers expand Takata airbag recall
    BBC reports that Japanese car giants Toyota, Nissan and Mitsubishi have expanded a recall of cars to replace airbags made by Takata. The recalls had initially been issued in North America, but have now been extended to the rest of the world. The carmakers said they were calling back a total of 3.2 million cars [...]
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