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Vandalized Toyotas stall car-sharing program in France

2015-01-11 14:44:36| Automakers - Topix.net

When the Socialists lost a French mayor's office to the Greens last March, the ripple effect spread as far as the Tokyo offices of the world's biggest carmaker, Toyota Motor Corp. Toyota was preparing to start its first electric car-sharing experiment outside Japan in Grenoble, a 160,000-person city at the foot of the French Alps. The incumbent had promised to install security cameras at all 27 planned charging stations for Toyota's i-Road, a quirky three-wheeled electric scooter that the company says can slalom through curves like one of Grenoble's skiers.

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Toyota's products, factory retooling set stage for market share gains

2014-12-08 07:24:44| Automakers - Topix.net

Toyota expects to continue increasing sales in the U.S., but it isn't focused on expanding its market share or resorting to incentives to take more of the market. In public, Toyota executives are famously reserved in talking about the company's outlook and ambitions.

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US: Toyota's lending arm accused of tampering with prices

2014-12-02 13:03:15| Auto Dealers - Topix.net

Toyota Motor Credit Corp is the financing unit of Toyota, the world's largest automaker, and has now come to the attention of US authorities for alleged discriminatory loan pricing. According to the US regulators, the unit could be hit with an enforcement action because of the way it prices auto loans sent to its car dealerships and might be coerced to give back cash to borrowers or risk a penalty, said the company.

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