T&K Autoparts Sdn Bhd, in which UMW Toyota Motor Sdn Bhd has a 10% stake, has changed its name to JTEKT Automotive (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd.
The name change followed a merger between Koyo Seiko Co Ltd and Toyota Machine Works in Japan last January. JTEKT Corporation Japan now holds the majority 90% stake in JTEKT Malaysia.
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TOKYO Daihatsu Motor, Japan’s second-largest maker of minicars, said Wednesday that its first-quarter profit rose 5.4 percent after the company built more vehicles for parent Toyota Motor and sold more cars domestically.
Net income increased to ¥5.84 billion, or $49.9 million, for the three months ended June 30 from ¥5.54 billion, in the same period a […]

Toyota Motor Corporation announced today that it will display 27 concept and production vehicles at the 4th China (Guangzhou) International Automobile Exhibition (also known as Auto Guangzhou 2006) to be held at the Guangzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center from July 24 to 31. This is the largest number of vehicles Toyota has ever displayed […]

Honda Motor announced Tuesday that it is going into the jet airplane business. After flying various versions of a small business jet for about nine years, the company has decided to enter the very light jet market with its airborne equivalent of the Honda Civic.
Honda has partnered with venerable light plane manufacturer Piper Aircraft to […]

If the movie “Who Killed the Electric Car” is to be fully dramatic, then like any sad movie people pay their last respects at the funeral and grieve the forever loss of this vehicle. But, if Tesla Motors has anything to say about it, the movie is more like a horror movie (to big oil […]

With second quarter results made all the more remarkable by the overall weakness in the European auto market, the Fiat Group blew by analysts’ forecasts to post a $831.9 million quarterly profit, up 83 percent from last year’s results in the same period.
More important than the group result is the fact that the automotive business, […]

Spy shots of an updated 2008 Tiburon surfaced a couple of weeks ago, but the heavy covering obscured the visual tweaks Hyundai is planning for its front-wheel drive coupe. Today, however, Hyundai unveiled an updated version of the Coupe, known as the Tiburon in the U.S., at the Guangzhou Motor Show in China. Not much […]

Mitsubishi is well on its way to revamping the company’s entire lineup, and no vehicle could use a complete overhaul more than the aged Montero, known as the Shogun in other parts of the world such as the U.K. Auto Express has posted this shot of what the next Shogun will look like when it […]

This was a recurring observation of mine for the entire time that I’ve been reading newspapers since I was a kid. Why can’t motoring columnists write something (at least from time to time) against car companies and their suppliers, if needed?
Are they afraid to lose their advertising space or their regular pleasure visits to Japan, […]

Weber Automotive, a leader in the manufacture of engine blocks and crankshafts (many of the magnesium VW Beetle engine blocks were cast by Weber), has designed a small V4 engine in an attempt to provide an alternative to inline fours in emerging markets such as China.
The V4 configuration has had its fair share of success […]