The Trouble with Toyotas: So? What’s next?

It looks like Toyota’s dragging of its corporate feet on the sticky throttles fiasco is starting to take its toll. Last week, shares in the Japanese automaker plunged by 14 per cent—that’s a loss of $21 billion in market value, kids. So why are investors pounding Toyota so hard? Maybe because the Japanese has been […]

The Trouble with Toyotas: If you can’t buy a Toyota, then what will you buy?

No matter how anyone spins this sticky throttle situation, Toyota is in a whole mess of trouble. Forget the intangibles about “loss of reputation,” or “the shine is off the brand” namby-pamby stuff. Not having the majority of your lineup available for your salespeople to sell is an unprecedented situation in the auto industry. For […]

The Trouble with Toyotas: Can Toyota avoid Audi’s unintended acceleration woes?

By John LeBlanc Can things get any worse for Toyota these days? As you probably know, the Japanese automaker has stopped selling some of its most popular models and suspending production at five North American plants for the week of Feb. 1 to fix accelerator pedals that stick in 2.3 million vehicles recalled last week.

Bye-Bye 2009: Worst Car of the Decade

By John LeBlanc I know. The Prius has become the best-selling gasoline-electric hybrid of all time. Over a million have been sold since the first one went on sale in 1997. You could make the argument and ask, “How can that many people be wrong?” Easy, really.

Bye-Bye 2009: Most Influential Cars of the Decade

By John LeBlanc These weren’t the best-selling, best-looking or best-performing new cars from the past decade. But these were the vehicles that set trends and had other automakers scrambling to play catch-up. Chronologically, here are the 10 most influential cars:

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