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Self-Driving Startup Aurora Bets On Lidar In First Acquisition

Bloomberg | Friday May 24, 2019

Aurora recently raised $530 million from investors including Sequoia Capital, Amazon.com Inc. and T. Rowe Price Group Inc. It's acquiring Blackmore Sensors & Analytics, a lidar startup that had raised funding from BMW i Ventures and Toyota AI Ventures, for undisclosed terms.

Toyota Glanza Interior Uncovered In New Spy Photos; Gets CVT Option

CarAndBike Team | Friday May 10, 2019

The soon-to-be-launched Toyota Glanza has recently been spotted again and this time around we get to see the car's cabin as well. Similar to the new Toyota Glanza's exterior, the cabin too is largely identical to the Maruti Suzuki Baleno's cabin, save for the Toyota badge on the steering wheel.

Toyota, Panasonic To Set Up Firm To Connect Cars, Homes

Reuters | Thursday May 9, 2019

Toyota and Panasonic said they will set up a new company early next year to focus on technology that could be used to offer personalised services in the home. The pair plan to be 50-50 partners in the new firm and will increase cooperation at their respective housing operations in Japan.

Skoda Superb Facelift Teased In New Design Sketches

CarAndBike Team | Wednesday May 8, 2019

The Skoda Superb sedan is due for an update later this month and the Czech car maker has given us the first official glimpse of the updated model with the new sketches. The newly released sketches point at subtle upgrades on the Toyota Camry rival while retaining the trademark butterfly grille, albeit with redesigned headlamps, bumper and possibly ...

Toyota Sees Smaller-Than-Expected Profit Rise In 2019-20, Globally

Reuters | Wednesday May 8, 2019

Toyota Motor Corp forecast on Wednesday a 3.3 percent rise in operating profit for the current year due to cost reduction measures and changes to its depreciation methods.

Honda Civic vs Toyota Corolla vs Skoda Octavia: Comparison Review

Kingshuk Dutta | Monday May 6, 2019

We pit the new-generation Honda Civic against the segment benchmark, which is the Skoda Octavia and the Toyota Corolla. Does the new Civic have the goods to usurp the throne of the Octavia or will the Octavia continue to prevail?

Tata Motors Sales Drop By 20 Per Cent In April 2019

CarAndBike Team | Thursday May 2, 2019

These are trying time for the Indian auto industry that has been consistently witnessing drop in sales figures over the past months. April 2019 has seen a significant drop for most manufacturers with the latest being Tata Motors that saw a 20 per cent decline in volumes. The automaker sold 42,577 units last month, as against 53,511 units that were ...

Toyota Domestic Sales Down By 22 Per Cent

CarAndBike Team | Thursday May 2, 2019

Toyota Kirloskar Motor sold a total of 10,112 units in the domestic market. The domestic sales saw a drop of 22 per cent which is a big drop compared to March 2019 which showed a growth of 7 per cent. The company exported 1301 units of the Etios series this month thus clocking a total of 11,413 units. Toyota Kirloskar Motor sold a total of 13037 un...

Car Sales April 2019: Maruti Suzuki PV Sales Down By 19.6 Per Cent

CarAndBike Team | Wednesday May 1, 2019

Passenger Vehicles sales of India's largest carmaker continued to remain under pressure in the new financial year. Maruti Suzuki has recorded a slump of 19.6 per cent in volumes in April 2019 selling 133,704 units against 164,978 units in the same month last year. Company's sales performance from April will also include the units sold to Toyota in ...

टोयोटा की प्रिमियम हैचबैक ग्लान्ज़ा पहली बार हुई स्पॉट, टोयोटा बैज वाली बलेनो है कार

Anshuman Sakalley | Tuesday April 30, 2019

टोयोटा बैज वाली प्रिमियम हैचबैक ग्लान्ज़ा के अगले और पिछले हिस्से का साफ लुक नए स्पाय शॉट्स में देखने को मिला है. जानें कितनी बदली प्रिमियम हैचबैक?

Besides Jaguar, Who Else Has Multiple World Car Wins?

Siddharth Vinayak Patankar | Tuesday April 30, 2019

Nissan has won 3 trophies overall, which includes the first gen Leaf EV bagging World Car in 2011. The Lexus LS 460 gave Toyota Group its maiden WCOTY win in 2007, though Toyota has also won twice in the Green Car category since.

Toyota Glanza Spotted For The First Time

CarAndBike Team | Tuesday April 30, 2019

The Toyota Glanza will compete with the likes of the Maruti Suzuki Baleno, Hyundai i20, Honda Jazz.

Upcoming Toyota Glanza: Things We Know So Far

CarAndBike Team | Monday April 29, 2019

Toyota India is all set to launch its newest hatchback, Toyota Glanza, in India in the coming months. Here are things that we already know about the upcoming Toyota-badged Baleno.

Toyota Opens Test Track Inspired By The Nurburgring In Japan

Sunday April 28, 2019

Toyota Motor Corporation has opened a 5.3-km country road test course which sees the completion of work on the central section of its new research and development facility, named Toyota Technical Center Shimoyama, located in a mountainous area straddling the cities of Toyota and Okazaki. This section, which primarily features a winding country road...

Toyota Abandons Plan To Install U.S Connected Vehicle Tech By 2021

Reuters | Saturday April 27, 2019

The Japanese automaker announced plans in April 2018 to begin the installation of DSRC technology in 2021 "with the goal of adoption across most of its lineup by the mid-2020s."