Toyota

Corporate welfare and the gullible governments that pay it

Opinion: Ottawa and Ontario just gave Toyota $220 million for something it likely would have done anyway. Governments need to wise up.

Lust turns to rust: Why Canada’s love for cars won’t end well

Wishful thinking can’t triumph over reality forever. And so Canada’s car boom can’t last, either.

Sizzle returns to the auto show

With the U.S. economy on the mend, automakers get back to what they do best at car shows: delight and entertain

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The economy in February: signs of the time

Yale University is now a debt collector. Amazon enters the second-hand market.

Will the Furia help the Toyota Corolla become cool?

Cars like the Corolla are the reason Toyota has a reputation for building reliable, but boring vehicles—even if the Corolla is the best-selling car of all time.

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Volkswagen on the straight and narrow

The German auto manufacturer simplifies its style

South Africa and the Marikana effect

After a strike left 34 dead, one mining firm increased wages by 22 per cent. Could the deal be contagious?

Das auto giant

Das auto giant

Volkswagen is on track to become the world’s biggest automaker by volume

South Korean cool

How Kia and Hyundai became cool

Once the butt of jokes, the South Korean companies are suddenly the fastest-growing automakers

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The greenest car of all?

Nissan believes its purely electric Leaf car, not hybrids, is the way of the future

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Toyota vindicated by U.S. investigation

Driver error was behind 39 of 40 instances of “sudden acceleration”

Good News

This week: Good news, bad news

Hope comes to the U.S. economy, while a suicide attack devastates Russia