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Toyota to build three assembly plants in Maharashtra: report

admin — Fri, 01 May 2026 05:52:00 +0000

Toyota has a production capacity of 3.1 million units in Japan, 2.2 million in China and 1.5 ‌million in the United States. File.
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Toyota Motor plans to build three vehicle assembly plants in Maharashtra ‌as automakers shift focus to emerging markets from stagnating ones such as ⁠the United States and China, the Nikkei newspaper said on Friday (May 1, 2026).

The new facilities will triple production capacity ‌for the world’s biggest automaker to one million units in India by ‌the 2030s, with total estimated investment of ‌300 ⁠billion yen ($1.9 billion), the paper said.

Published – May 01, 2026 11:22 am IST

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Motor racing-Toyota to become title sponsor of Haas F1 team

admin — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:36:00 +0000

Toyota Gazoo Racing, the Japanese car maker’s motorsport division, will become the title sponsor of the Haas Formula One team next season in a deal that strengthens an existing technical partnership.

The U.S.-owned team, who use Ferrari engines and also has close ties with Maranello, said they would be rebranded as TGR Haas F1 from 2026.

“Our working relationship to date has been everything we hoped it would be,” said Haas’s Japanese principal Ayao Komatsu.

“The cultivation of personnel, all working collaboratively between Haas F1 Team and TGR, has benefited us greatly and that’s something that will only increase as our partnership matures.”

Haas, the smallest of what will be 11 teams on the starting grid next season, are eighth in the standings ahead of this weekend’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

They announced a multi-year technical partnership with Toyota in October last year, a move that brought Japan’s biggest carmaker back to grand prix racing for the first time since 2009.

Toyota has provided design, technical and manufacturing services and used the partnership to develop young drivers, engineers and mechanics through a testing of previous car programmes.

“Throughout our challenges in the 2025 season, I witnessed young TGR drivers and engineers begin to believe in their own potential and set their sights on even greater dreams,” said Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda in a statement.

“The time has come for the next generation to take their first steps toward the world stage. Together with Gene Haas, Ayao, and everyone at TGR Haas F1 Team, we will build both a culture and a team for the future. Toyota is now truly on the move.”

The team will unveil their 2026 livery online on January 23 before a first test behind closed doors at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya on January 26-30.

Published – December 05, 2025 05:06 am IST

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Toyota Returns To Formula One As Haas Partner

admin — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:47:01 +0000

Toyota spent eight seasons in Formula One before leaving at the end of 2009.© X (Twitter)

Toyota announced their return to Formula One on Friday following a 15-year absence, signing a technical partnership with US team Haas. The Japanese manufacturers spent eight seasons in Formula One before leaving at the end of 2009 with a record of 13 podium finishes and no Grand Prix wins. Haas, currently seventh in the 10-team constructor standings, said Toyota would provide “design, technical and manufacturing services”.

The team said their cars would feature Toyota branding at the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, later this month.

Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda said that he “had finally gotten back to being an ordinary older guy who loves cars”.

“I think that, somewhere deep in his heart, that ordinary older car-loving guy Akio Toyoda had always regretted having blocked — by pulling out of F1 — Japanese youths’ path toward driving the world’s fastest cars,” he said.

Toyoda added that he believed his decision to withdraw from the sport in 2009 “was not wrong”.

Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu said he was “hugely excited” to work with Toyota.

“To have a world leader in the automotive sector support and work alongside our organisation, while seeking to develop and accelerate their own technical and engineering expertise — it’s simply a partnership with obvious benefits on both sides,” he said.

Haas have signed French driver Esteban Ocon to drive for them next season on a multi-year contract.

Ocon will team up with 19-year-old British driver Oliver Bearman.

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Glitch halts Toyota factories in Japan

admin — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:22:06 +0000

This aerial photo shows Toyota’s Motomachi plant in central Japan. File
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Toyota said Tuesday it has been hit by a technical glitch that forced it to suspend production at all of its 14 factories in Japan.

The world’s top-selling automaker said the “malfunction in the production order system” occurred during the daytime on Monday and forced stoppages starting Tuesday morning.

The company said that the problem did not appear to be caused by a cyberattack, but that an investigation was ongoing.

The glitch prevented Toyota’s system from processing orders for parts, resulting in a suspension of a dozen factories or 25 production lines on Tuesday morning, it said in a statement.

The company later decided to halt the afternoon shift of the two other operational factories, suspending all of Toyota’s domestic plants, or 28 production lines.

The incident affected only Japanese factories, Toyota said.

Later in the day, the company announced in a statement that production at 12 domestic plants would resume Wednesday morning, with all plants expected to be operational from the second shift of the day onwards.

News of the suspension briefly sent Toyota’s stocks into the red in the morning session before recovering.

Last year, Toyota had to suspend all of its domestic factories after a subsidiary was hit by a cyberattack.

The company is one of the biggest in Japan, and its production activities have an outsized impact on the country’s economy.

Toyota is famous for its “just-in-time” production system of providing only small deliveries of necessary parts and other items at various steps of the assembly process.

This practice minimises costs while improving efficiency and is studied by other manufacturers and at business schools around the world, but also comes with risks.

The company retained its global top-selling auto crown for the third year in a row in 2022, and aims to earn an annual net profit of 2.58 trillion yen ($17.6 billion) this fiscal year.

Major automakers are enjoying a robust surge of global demand after the Covid-19 pandemic slowed manufacturing activities.

Severe shortages of semiconductors had limited production capacity for a host of goods ranging from cars to smartphones.

Toyota has said chip supplies were improving and that it had raised product prices, while it worked with suppliers to bring production back to normal.

The company was still experiencing delays in the deliveries of new vehicles to customers, it added.

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