Toyota launches
huge driving simulator
The system at its research labs in Japan is intended to coordinate
research into areas such as driver fatigue and active safety
systems
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Toyota tops innovation
spending lists
for 2006
Annual survey by business advice group puts
Toyota at the top of the 1000 top investors in R&D for
2006
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Toyota plug-in gets go-ahead
for Japanese road trials
The car can do 13km on one charge, and it's going to be tried
out in Japan first, then North America and Europe
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Hybrid sales in Europe top
100,000
Most of them are the Prius model, but the new Lexus is in there
too
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Toyota sets new
European sales record
More than 1 million units under its own name,
plus 50,000 Lexus were sold in 2006
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Toyota
talks with Isuzu about link up
The two groups about talking about sharing some technology
in areas where they don't compete
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Toyota confirms
Auris will be built in UK
The new C-segment car is coming to the Burnaston
site in Derbyshire, and to the Turkish factory
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Hybrid Camry
production starts in the US
Toyota puts its Kentucky plant into action on
the hybrid version of its US best-seller
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Toyota going
for 1.2 million in 2008 in Europe
The group has set a target of 2008 to achieve
1.2 million European sales, ahead of its previous target of
2010 for the same figure
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Toyota starts
work on new US technical centre
The centre at Yorktown is part of a commitment
to do research near to the markets, the group says
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Toyota to sell
ethanol cars in US
The carmaker aims to sell cars that will run
on bioethanol or E85 by 2008
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Toyota to revamp
engines and transmissions to meet green targets
2010 is the target for overhauled powertrains
and drivetrains plus new hybrid technologies.
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Toyota widens
scope of NVH testing at European R&D centre
Expansion of the centre sees a greater workload
of NVH testing.
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| Toyota opens
European R&D centre
Toyota has opened a brand new technical centre
in Belgium for the upper body development of its cars for
Europe.
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| Toyota to
manufacture the Camry hybrid in the US
Toyota is to build a hybrid petrol-electric
version of its Camry saloon at its factory in Kentucky, US
in 2006. The new came as the Japanese carmaker tries to satisfy
booming demand for the fuel-efficient vehicles.
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| Toyota expects
large sales in China next year
Toyota says its sales in China will grow by
more than half this year and continue to easily outpace the
market in 2006.
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Toyota unveiled a whole
range of cars at the IAA show
The IAA show saw Toyota take the wraps off
two of its most important cars in Europe, the all new Yaris
and RAV4.
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