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BANGKOK, May 8 (Reuters) - Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) has stopped sales and deliveries of its Yaris Ativ in Thailand, senior officials said on Monday, after its affiliate Daihatsu rigged part of the door in side-collision safety tests. Toyota was working with the Thai government to resume sales of the model, which has been produced in Toyota's Gateway plant in Chachoengsao province, and further investigation was underway. "If development had been carried out under appropriate conditions, this kind of problem would of course not have happened," Maeda said. Daihatsu has said that some 76,000 of those vehicles were Yaris Ativs mainly bound for Thailand, Mexico and the Gulf Cooperation Council. Toyota President Koji Sato, who took over the top job from Toyoda on April 1, was not at the press conference.

☆ Toyota suspends sales of Yaris model after safety test problem
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BANGKOK, May 8 (Reuters) - Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) has stopped sales of its Yaris Ativ, a senior official said on Monday, after its affiliate Daihatsu rigged part of the door in side-collision safety tests. "If development had been carried out under appropriate conditions, this kind of problem would of course not have happened," Maeda said. Toyota and Daihatsu (6023.T) disclosed last month they were investigating how part of the door in side-collision safety tests carried out for some 88,000 small cars, most of which were Ativs, had been changed for the purpose of side-on crash safety testing. Thailand is Toyota's fourth-biggest global centre by production volume after Japan, the U.S. and China. It produced some 659,000 vehicles, including models of its luxury brand Lexus, in the country last year.

☆ Toyota-affiliate Daihatsu rigged safety test for 88,000 cars
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Toyota said it had not received any report of an accident or injury related to the rigged side-crash test. Daihatsu said it had discovered the rigged safety test after a whistleblower report. It said it had reported the issue to safety regulatory agencies and stopped shipment of affected models. The affected models include Toyota Yaris Ativs made in Thailand from last August, and Perodua Axias manufactured in Malaysia starting from February. Daihatsu said it would run new safety tests in the presence of regulators and confirm the safety of the models before resuming shipments.

TOKYO, April 27 (Reuters) - Japan's Denso Corp (6902.T), a leading supplier to Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T), reported an 86.3% rise in fourth quarter operating profit on Thursday, benefitting from stronger sales and weaker lockdown-induced headwinds. The company, a major manufacturer of automotive parts and chips, posted operating profit of 158.1 billion yen ($1.18 billion) for the three months to end-March, versus an average 161.51 billion yen profit estimated by 10 analysts. A year earlier, the company earned 84.9 billion yen in profit. Denso gets about half of its revenue from the Toyota group, which also includes Toyota truck unit Hino Motors (7205.T) and small-car maker Daihatsu, and counts Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda as a board member. The company, which makes systems for running gasoline engines and driving hybrid and battery-powered vehicles, projected operating profit of 510 billion yen for the current business year that started April 1.

☆ Toyota's vehicle production up by 8.8% in January, still short of plan
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

TOKYO, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) boosted global vehicle production by 9% in January, it said on Monday, marking its first increase in three months but still coming short of its plan due to COVID-19-related parts shortages. Toyota, the world's largest automaker by volume, said it produced 689,090 vehicles globally in January, an 8.8% increase from the same month last year. That was just short of the 700,000 vehicles it previously said it expected to produce for the month. That does not include production from its Daihatsu Motor Co and Hino Motors Ltd (7205.T) units. Domestic production rose sharply, increasing by 30% to 211,572 vehicles, it said.

☆ Toyota defends title as world's top-selling automaker in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

TOKYO, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) sold 10.5 million vehicles in 2022, it said on Monday, defending its title as the world's top-selling automaker for a third straight year. Global sales for the group, including truck unit Hino Motors (7205.T) and small-car maker Daihatsu, inched down 0.1% as record overseas sales of 8.6 million vehicles helped offset a 9.6% dip in its home market to 1.9 million. While some chip-related supply constraints remained for Toyota as well, the Japanese automaker said strong demand in Asia and an increase in the production capacity and optimisation in Asia and North America helped it boost global production by 5% in 2022. Toyota in November revised its production forecast for the current financial year through the end of March, to 9.2 million vehicles from 9.7 million. Reporting by Satoshi Sugiyama Editing by Chang-Ran KimOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Honda to begin selling mini-commercial electric vans in spring 2024
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TOKYO, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co (7267.T) said on Wednesday it would begin selling micro-sized commercial electric vans in spring 2024, as part of its effort to electrify its vehicle lineups. Japanese automakers are turning to small commercial trucks as one way to make battery electric vehicles (BEVs) popular in the country, tapping into car size unique to the country amid pressure to slash its carbon footprint. Honda's electric van has a target cruising range of 200km (125 miles) and is seeking to set the price at around 1 million yen ($7,270). Commercial vehicle coalition CJPT, led by Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T), said in July it would develop small electric commercial vans with minivehicle specialists Daihatsu and Suzuki Motor Corp (7269.T). Honda in April laid out goals of producing some 2 million electric vehicles a year and 30 electric vehicle models globally by 2030.

☆ Mazda расписала по годам новую стратегию «озеленения»
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-18 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +2 min

Drive, Леонид Попов,Первым массовым электрокаром марки стал глобальный кроссовер Mazda MX-30, представленный в прошлом году. Компания Mazda обнародовала план «озеленения» модельного ряда. Все эти меры, как надеются в компании, позволят ей добиться углеродной нейтральности к 2050 году. Первая ступень, Mazda Co-Pilot 1.0, будет представлена на крупной линейке продуктов в 2022 году. Подключённые машины, в частности, позволят внедрить принципы «мобильность как услуга» (MaaS) и «обновление ПО по воздуху» (OTA), за что будет отвечать электронная архитектура нового поколения.

Persons: Леонид Попов Locations: Китай

☆ Volkswagen îşi menţine titlul de cel mai mare producător auto în 2017, depăşind Toyota
▼ + stars: | 2018-01-09 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Un purtător de cuvânt al VW a refuzat să comenteze informaţia. Scandalul Dieselgate, cel mai grav din istoria Volkswagen, a izbucnit în 18 septembrie 2015, iar VW a pierdut peste 20 de miliarde de euro din capitalizarea bursieră. În 2016, vânzările grupului au urcat cu 3,8%, la nivelul a record 10,3 milioane de vehicule, datorită majorării cererii în China şi Europa. Luna trecută, Toyota a anunţat că se aşteaptă să vândă pe plan global 10,35 milioane de vehicule în 2017, în creştere cu 2% faţă de 2016. Compania niponă, care deţine brandurile Toyota, Lexus, Daihatsu şi Hino, estimează că va livra anul acesta 10,5 milioane de vehicule.

Organizations: Audi, Porsche, VW, Volkswagen, Luna, Toyota Locations: germană, China, Europa, Lexus

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