Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (FHI), the manufacturer of Subaru automobiles, announced that it held a line-off ceremony at Subaru’s Gunma Main Plant (Ota-city, Gunma Prefecture, Japan) with Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) President Akio Toyoda and honored guests in attendance, in commemoration of the production start of the Subaru BRZ and Toyota 86.
FHI and TMC first [...]

Motorcycle sales in Australia continued to grow significantly in the third quarter of 2011, according to figures released by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI).In the nine months to the end of September, 77,129 motorcycles were delivered to Australian customers, representing an increase of 3319 motorcycles (or 4.5 per cent) over the same [...]

Maximum concentration instead of switching off and relaxing, precision work instead of holiday feeling: Participants in this year’s Audi Twin Cup world final discovered a whole new side to Mallorca. For two days, the best international service and technical teams from the Audi dealer network competed in an exciting final for the world championship title [...]

AUDI AG and the Frankfurt Book Fair have agreed to a multi-year partnership to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas between various disciplines and schools of thought. The aim is to work together to foster innovative ideas through the convergence of different fields. The partners are providing a first glimpse of their collaborative [...]

Audi stands for superb design not just with regard to automobiles: In this year’s prestigious red dot awards, the premium manufacturer won the category “red dot: client of the year” in the area of communication design for the second time in a row. This special cross-sector prize was awarded for the first time last year. [...]

With its win in the reader poll “Classic of the Future 2011,” the Audi A3 concept study is moving into the fast lane even before the production start of a four-door A3 notchback sedan.
This was the second time that the trade journal presented the readers’ award “The Golden Classic Steering Wheel.” The majority of the [...]

Toyota City, Japan, —Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that its production and sales subsidiary in India, Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private, Ltd. (TKM), is to begin export of the “Etios” series sedan and hatchback to South Africa in March 2012. Although TKM has been manufacturing vehicles for sale in India since 1999, exports of the [...]

TORRANCE, Calif. – Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., reported September sales of 121,451 units. With 25 selling days in September 2010 and 2011, sales were down 17.5 percent over the year-ago month on both a daily selling rate (DSR) and unadjusted raw volume basis.
Toyota Division recorded September sales of 106,456 vehicles, a [...]