Toyota Ireland, one of the country’s most successful and loved brands has just hit the monumental 500,000 sales mark for its passenger vehicles. The 500,000th sale was made in February at the Tony Burke Motors Toyota dealership in Ballybrit, Co. Galway, when Siobhan Murphy from Salthill in Galway purchased a new Toyota Yaris.
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The wait for Toyota’s rear-wheel drive coupe is nearly over. The new Toyota FT-86 II was unveiled today at the 2011 Geneva motor show, alongside the Subaru version.
Toyota has announced that the company will be showing off a new concept at next month's Geneva Motor Show. The Japanese stalwart has big plans for the B-segment in the near future, and those include bringing a full hybrid system to some of the smallest cars on the road, and we'll all get a glimpse into how the automaker plans to do that with the Yaris HSD Concept. Details are remarkably murky at the moment, and while we'd love to be able to tell you all about the vehicle's drivetrain and fuel economy, it looks like we'll just have to wait until the vehicle gets its official unveil next month.....
Toyota is to recall over 1.6 million vehicles worldwide, including hundreds in Ireland, over safety concerns.
1.2 million vehicles are being recalled in Japan and 400,000 in the rest of the world.
Over 140,000 Avensis models are being recalled, bringing the total number or Toyota-recalled vehicles since late 2009, to over 15 million.....