Toyota Highlander News

Toyota is struggling with the rising yen, so much so that the automaker has been shifting vehicle production outside of Japan .

In 2007, Ali Salman was a Vice President of Marketing at Beverly Hills Rent-A-Car in LA.

In the afterglow of the big announcement that Toyota Motor Manufacturing in Princeton will soon become the sole source for the gasoline-electric hybrid variant of the popular Highlander mid-sized SUV, it is truly difficult to predict what this move may mean to the future of the local work force and what ancillary effect the expansion and investment ... (more)

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Buy a gasoline 2012 Toyota HighlanderA crossoverA in the U.S., and the chances are it will have been made at Toyota's Princetown factory in Indiana.A Opt for the more fuel efficientA 2012 Toyota Highlander HybridA model, and yourA carA will have been made a third of the way around the world in Japan.

Toyota said it plans to invest $400 million and create 400 jobs at its assembly plant in Princeton, Ind., to build a Highlander SUV hybrid, ending all production of that model in Japan.

The Honda supplier that opened a decade ago is looking for a host of engineers, a human resources manager and other workers with skills in stamping, welding and assembly.

The United States automobile manufacturing exported more than 1.5 million new vehicles in 2010.

Hybrid and export versions will be included, and the project is expected to create approximately 400 new jobs.

Toyota Motor Corp., Asia's biggest automaker, will end production of Highlander sport utility vehicles in Japan, consolidating assembly of the model in Indiana to blunt the impact of the yen's rise on earnings.

The Chicago Auto Show is just around the corner and the word on the street is that Toyota, already the leader in green car design, is poised to steal the show by premiering their latest hybrid designs on a giant Monopoly boardgame driving course.

At 76 inches across, the 2012 Ford Edge is wider than its competitors, the Nissan Murano, Dodge Journey and Toyota Highlander, but not wide enough to fit three child-safety seats across the second row.

Home prices are still miserably low, and you're probably not earning much interest on your bank account .

Buoyed by sales of the all-new 2012 model, the Honda CR-V took the top-spot among compact SUVs and Crossovers for the first month of the year .

With 24 selling days in and 2012, sales increased 7.5 percent over the year-ago month on a daily selling rate and unadjusted raw volume basis.

Local new car buyers are opting for Sport Utility Vehicles in increasing numbers to the point that they now represent the largest segment in the market.

Is this vehicle a hatchback, wagon, minivan or crossover sport utility vehicle? Judging from comments people made during a recent week of driving, plus some online research, any one of those classifications might be worthy of the 2012 Toyota Venza.

Big news this week for electric car drivers. We may soon have more company on the roads if the state of California has any say.

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and singer Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. officially open the International Auto Show Gala Thursday evening.

Big mistake? Read on. True, it probably cost me a lot more than if I had really bargained hard with Paul Jones, my friendly neighbor and ace salesman at Rosner Toyota here in North Stafford.