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When completing a transaxle assembly replacement, Engine Control Module (ECM) (SAE term: Powertrain Control Module [PCM]) replacement, or ECM (PCM) reprogram, ensure the correct ECM (PCM) software is matched with the transaxle assembly hardware. Some 2018 model year Camry vehicles require...

Contract manufacturer Magna Steyr will build two new sports cars jointly developed by BMW and Toyota, industry sources familiar with the matter told Automotive News Europe. Toyota previewed its car with the GR Supra Racing Concept at the Geneva auto show on March 6. The production coupe will...

Toyota Motor Corp. issued an unsettling warning to Kentucky workers building its top-selling Camry sedan: Cut costs now or face an uncertain future. The automaker can build a Camry in Japan, ship it all the way to Kentucky and make more money selling that car than from one built at Toyota’s...

Toyota Motor Corp. cut planned investment by 30 percent for a factory it’s building in Mexico and halved its production target amid pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump for manufacturers to keep more production in the U.S. Japan’s biggest automaker will reduce investment in the Guanajuato...

After news of Toyota Bodine Aluminum receiving further investment from Toyota, the future is looking bright at the Jackson plant. Toyota recently announced its plan to invest $373.8 million in five U.S. plants, including $14.5 million in Jackson’s Toyota Bodine plant. Toyota Bodine Aluminum...

One of the biggest potential job-creating bonanzas in the country, a giant new auto plant proposed by Toyota and Mazda, began in secret with a mysterious code name. Now it has become a full-blown race among no fewer than a dozen states to try to reel in the $1.6-billion project that will create...

Toyota and Mazda corporations announced plans on Friday to build a $1.6 billion assembly plant in the United States and work together to develop electric car and advanced safety technologies. The plant is expected to produce up to 300,000 cars a year and create jobs for 4,000 workers. It is...

In 2016, Americans purchased more Toyota Camry's than any other car for the 15th straight year. But even the brand’s long popularity and perennial top ranking in quality surveys of midsize cars by J.D. Power & Associates Inc. haven’t made it immune to the auto industry’s dramatic shift away from...

Toyota will spend more than a billion dollars to overhaul its largest production plant in the world, the Japanese automaker announced Monday. The $1.33 billion investment in the auto giant's Kentucky factory, which employs 8,200 people, will help the plant make Camrys more efficiently and will...

Toyota says it will add 400 jobs and invest $600 million at a Southern Indiana SUV factory. The announcement Tuesday comes just after President Donald Trump met with CEOs of the Detroit automakers to demand that new factories be built in the U.S. Toyota says the investment was planned before...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday targeted Toyota Motor Corp., threatening to impose a hefty fee on the Japanese automaker it if builds its Corolla cars for the U.S. market at a plant in Mexico. "Toyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build Corolla cars for...

Toyota will invest $150 million at its Tijuana, Mexico, assembly plant to increase output of the popular Tacoma pickup amid tight inventory that the company says has held back sales. The expansion will bump capacity to about 160,000 units annually in late 2017 or early 2018, from just over...

Toyota Motor Corp. may see its operating profit reduced by about 30 billion yen ($277 million) for the current quarter after a series of earthquakes struck southern Japan and disrupted parts supplies to the world’s largest automaker. Production shifts stopped late last week at Toyota’s Kyushu...

Toyota said on Monday that it will halt production at all of its assembly factories in Japan for six days in February because of a shortage of steel used to make parts. The details: A temporary steel shortage in Japan Toyota is running short of key parts used to make its vehicles because of an...