Akio Toyoda

When the final tally was made for 2011, Toyota Motor, formerly the world's largest automaker, slipped to third place in production behind General Motors and Volkswagen. It's not surprising: Toyota has endured a string of calamities over the past three years -- natural and man-made -- that would make even the company's famous paranoia seem like sunny optimism. The latest is endaka, the strong yen that causes everything that Toyota manufactures...  

Toyota Motor Corp. (7203), which ceded the lead in global automobile sales to General Motors Co. and Volkswagen AG (VOW) in 2011, is aiming to return to the top of the industry, President Akio Toyoda said. The company plans to return to the top ...  

#scionfrs This is Akio Toyoda, CEO and President of Toyota, one of the three largest automakers in the world, dirt-tracking a Toyota GT 86/Scion FR-S. The only thing better? Toyoda then takes it snow-drifting. Epic. More »  

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The Wall Street Journal picked Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corp., as one of 12 Corporate Executives to Watch Next Year on Friday, saying that 2012 may be a "make or break year" for the chief of Japan's top automaker. In its Asian edition for ...  

Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) Chief Executive Officer Akio Toyoda said the “ideal” exchange rate is 90 yen to the dollar. Also, the debt crisis in Europe “needs to be settled as quickly as possible,” Toyoda told reporters in Tokyo today. To ...  

Toyota Motor Corp. (TM) has a tradition of self-reliance. Chief Executive Officer Akio Toyoda is beginning to change that. The alliances illustrate how Toyoda is shaking up decades- old practices at Japan’s largest manufacturer, which is ...  

Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. has a tradition of self-reliance. Chief Executive Officer Akio Toyoda is beginning to change that. Toyoda agreed this month to equip some Toyota cars with Bayerische Motoren Werke AG diesel engines ...  

Toyota has a tradition of self-reliance in the auto industry. Chief Executive Akio Toyoda is beginning to change that. Toyoda agreed this month to equip some Toyota cars with Bayerische Motoren Werke AG diesel engines, building on an earlier deal to use ...  

CEO Akio Toyoda is beginning to change that. Toyoda agreed this month to equip some Toyota cars with BMW diesel engines, building on an earlier deal to use Tesla Motors battery packs in future electric vehicles. Before the grandson of the founder became ...  

Tradition-bound Toyota is starting to shake it up. For decades, the Japanese automaking giant has preferred to go it alone, eschewing alliances with other automakers. But Bloomberg News points out that CEO Akio Toyoda starting to make the change. Toyoda ...  

has a tradition of self-reliance. Chief Executive Officer Akio Toyoda is beginning to change that. Toyoda agreed this month to equip some Toyota cars with Bayerische Motoren Werke AG diesel engines, building on an earlier deal to use Tesla Motors Inc ...  

But the back-to-basics enthusiast sports car almost never happened, according to Chief Engineer Tetsuya Tada, speaking at the car’s launch last week in Japan. The concept for the car, originally the brain child of then Toyota VP Akio Toyoda (the man ...