Sequoia not dead yet. I headed over to the Toyota pressroom site on Friday to find Toyota’s take on its latest recall, this one involving select Toyota Avalon and Lexus models, and was greeted by a terse message stating that the automaker is not discontinuing its big Sequoia SUV. R.I.P. Sequoia? Supposedly, rumors have cropped [...]
The United Auto Workers Union smells blood. Toyota blood, that is. Angered by the closing and later sale of Toyota’s only unionized plant in America, NUMMI, and perhaps emboldened by the quality woes dogging the world’s largest automaker, the UAW has decided to target Toyota in its union organizing efforts. The UAW initiative comes as [...]
The Toyota Motor Corporation appears nearing a decision to launch its new Mississippi plant, an unfinished facility that was to have opened up late last year, originally planned to produce the Highlander SUV, but later changed to its hybrid Prius. As car sales began to plunge in 2008 and the company’s financial performance fell with [...]
