Toyota

Toyota Australia will cut 350 jobs due to pressures caused by the high Australian dollar, a union delegate says.

Toyota has unveiled its ambitions for high-tech health care, displaying experimental robots that the auto giant says can lift disabled patients from their hospital beds or help them walk.

Investigators with Toyota and the federal government could not replicate the runaway speeding reported by a Prius owner who said his car's accelerator stuck as he drove on a California freeway, according to a memo for a congressional panel.

A Toyota Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway was towed to a dealership yesterday while federal and company inspectors converged on the car to determine whether a stuck gas pedal was to blame.

A United States lawmaker says that internal Toyota documents show the automaker deliberately withheld key vehicle design and testing evidence in lawsuits filed by Toyota drivers injured in crashes.

Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda apologised personally and repeatedly to the United States and millions of American Toyota owners for safety lapses that have led to deaths and widespread recalls.

How rattled are Toyota dealers about the company's problems? Some dealerships nearly hired the same crisis public relations firm that handled the travails of socialite Paris Hilton, singer Chris Brown and a company that California called the state's worst inland polluter.