Toyota is the latest manufacturer to shuffle its production facilities around to accommodate the rapidly changing market. Among the key changes, the next-generation Prius will be built at a plant under construction in Blue Springs, Mississippi, starting late 2010. This new Prius will be larger and more...

Seeing sales of the Honda Fit skyrocket, and anticipating a redesigned model coming ashore in October, Toyota has decided to go on the offensive by offering a five-door Yaris hatchback in the United States beginning this summer. The five-door is currently sold in other markets, including Canada and Europe...

Green-car revolutionary Toyota has announced that both a Lexus and Toyota branded hybrids will debut at the Detroit auto show in January, according to articles published by Automotive News and others. Previous reports suggested that the first of a three-model Prius line up would be shown in the Motor...

Sales of the consummate gasoline/electric Toyota Prius hybrid reached a milestone mark of more than one million worldwide, Toyota announced today. Since the Prius first went on sale in Japan in 1997, then in Europe and North America in 2000, total cumulative sales through April 2008 hit 1,028,000 units...

With Earth Day, we were wondering just how popular hybrid cars have become, when we found that R. L. Polk & Co has done the research for us. According to their calculations, nationwide registrations for new hybrid vehicles rose to 350,289 in 2007, marking a 38 percent increase from 2006. The hybrid...