Toyota Media Site: Latest Press Releases

Latest Press Releases

2 November 2012

Toyota’s 75th Anniversary

Tomorrow, 3 November 2012, Toyota reaches the landmark of its 75th anniversary. To help mark the occasion and tell the story of the company’s development to become one of the world’s best-known and most successful businesses, it has created an interactive history timeline on its global website.

2 November 2012

Toyota Hybrids A Wily Choice For Roadrunners Gatwick

Surrey’s RoadRunners Gatwick taxi business has signed a deal worth more than half a million pounds to add 20 Toyotas to its fleet over the coming year.

31 October 2012

Toyota And Lexus Introduce A New Fleet Charter

In its commitment to delivering the highest standards of customer service, Toyota and Lexus Fleet Services has drawn up a new Fleet Service Charter, which sets out how it will meet and exceed business customer needs and expectations in every area of its operations.

29 October 2012

Toyota Prius Glides In At Bristol Airport

Airport taxi service Checker Cars has added four Toyota Prius to its fleet of cars operating out of Bristol Airport. The move supports its strategy to lower vehicle emissions at all the sites where it operates.

29 October 2012

Toyota Racing End Season On A High In China

TOYOTA Racing claimed its second consecutive win with a lights-to-flag victory in the Six Hours of Shanghai, the final round of the FIA World Endurance Championship.

23 October 2012

West Midlands Fire Service Adds Toyota Hilux To Fleet

The West Midlands Fire Service is putting the Toyota Hilux Invincible to the test as part of a review of its fleet of Brigade Response Vehicles.

22 October 2012

Search Is On For The Oldest British-Built Toyota

In December 1992, history was made when the first Toyota Carina E rolled off the line at Toyota’s newly opened factory at Burnaston, in Derbyshire. Twenty years on, it’s time to celebrate and Toyota is hoping to mark the occasion by tracing the oldest surviving example still in daily use.

22 October 2012

Victory For Wrathall, Dynojet And Toyota At Brands Hatch

Frank Wrathall and the Dynojet Racing team returned Toyota to the BTCC victory podium for the first time in nearly 20 years this afternoon at Brands Hatch, the independent Avensis driver claiming an emotional and popular maiden win in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship in the final race of the season.

19 October 2012

British Deal Kickstarted 75 Years Of Toyota

The formation of the Toyota Motor Company in 1937 established a business that has grown to become one of the world’s most successful and respected global manufacturers.

15 October 2012

Final Fling For Toyota BTCC Men At Brands Hatch

Toyota’s trio of independent racers will bring their BTCC seasons to a close at Brands Hatch this weekend, each hopeful of ending the year on a high note.

15 October 2012

Toyota Racing Scores Thrilling Home Victory At Fuji

True to the saying “there’s no place like home”, Toyota Racing secured its second victory of the season in the penultimate round of the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship at the Fuji circuit in Japan yesterday (14 October).

15 October 2012

Toyota GT86 Named Best Coupe In 2012 Scottish Car Of The Year Awards

The Toyota GT86 has received its first UK honour, being named best coupe in the 2012 Scottish Car of the Year awards.

14 October 2012

Toyota Serves Up The New Proace Van

The new Toyota Proace will expand Toyota’s presence in European LCV markets, a medium-sized van that will feature bespoke Toyota design details and branding.

10 October 2012

Toyota window switch recall: Clarification on media reports of ‘fire risk’ issue

Toyota has today announced a recall of 138,000 Yaris, Auris and RAV4 cars in the UK. This involves the electrical contact in the driver’s side Power Window Master Switch (PWMS), which may over time come

10 October 2012

Notification of RAV4, Yaris, Auris and Corolla Recall – 138,000 vehicles in the UK

Toyota places the highest priority on customer safety and the quality of our vehicles.  We are constantly monitoring the performance of our vehicles through a variety of sources.  From time to time, we become aware

9 October 2012

RECAP: a digest of recent Toyota news

Missed out on the news? Catch up here and click the links to access the full stories and pictures.

8 October 2012

Morgan Makes The Top Eight For Toyota At Silverstone

Toyota independent racers Adam Morgan, Frank Wrathall and Tony Hughes overcame a host of difficulties at Silverstone today to score more valuable Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship points, with series rookie Morgan shining at the wheel of his Speedworks Motorsport Avensis in the final race of the day to secure another personal best.

5 October 2012

Buoyant Toyota And Lexus Fleet Sales Buck The Market Trend

Toyota and Lexus sales to fleet and business customers enjoyed a healthy 15 per cent increase this year, with the low tax and running cost benefits of hybrid power in particular proving highly attractive. Hybrid’s share of Toyota and Lexus’s fleet business increased to 30 per cent.

4 October 2012

Toyota Plant Visit For BTCC Racer Wrathall

BTCC racer Frank Wrathall dropped in at the factory yesterday to meet the people who helped create his Toyota Avensis touring car, and to help celebrate 20 years of production at Toyota’s Burnaston facility.

4 October 2012

Yaris leads Toyota’s 62-plate September sales success

Toyota sales soared by 18.6 per cent in September, the rush for new 62-plate cars helping the company increase its share of the UK market to 4.25 per cent. Top performer among the Toyota models was the new Yaris, the supermini posting an exceptional 73 per cent increase in sales – including the new Yaris Hybrid – compared to the same month last year.

3 October 2012

Toyota makes it nine in a row as most valuable auto brand

Toyota was named the world’s most valuable automotive brand for the ninth year running in the recently published Best Global Brands report 2012, compiled by Interbrand. This year’s report sees Toyota’s brand valuation improve by 9% to over $30 million. The brand secured 10th position across all industries, an improvement of one place over 2010.

2 October 2012

Toyota Introduces Rewarding Recycling For End-Of-Life Vehicle Disposal

Toyotas are renowned for their longevity, but when they finally reach the end of the road there is a new system for ensuring they are responsibly and efficiently disposed of, with a fair price paid to owners. Launched today, Rewarding Recycling, gives customers peace of mind and ensures that end-of-life vehicle recycling is carried out to the highest environmental standards and in line with legal requirements.

2 October 2012

Toyota Motorsport GmbH Breaks NÜrburgring Record Again

TOYOTA Motorsport GmbH (TMG) continued its record-breaking success with the TMG EV P002 by setting a new electric record on the legendary 20.8km Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit in Germany. Using TMG’s motorsport-tuned electric powertrain, driver Jochen

1 October 2012

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