
Toyota stock popped higher in heavy trading Thursday, aided by a weak yen and aiming toward its first weekly gain since mid-November. Toyota holds the second strongest earnings performance among automakers (next to Daimler).

Toyota stock popped higher in heavy trading Thursday, aided by a weak yen and aiming toward its first weekly gain since mid-November. Toyota holds the second strongest earnings performance among automakers (next to Daimler).

Toyota is recalling more than 400,000 vehicles in Saudi Arabia that were produced from 2006 to 2010 due to concerns about unintended acceleration, the company and Saudi Arabia’s trade ministry said.

Consumer Reports finds the Toyota Prius to be the best overall value for the automotive dollar and the Nissan Armada the worst in its annual Best New-Car Value analysis.

Toyota will debut the FCV, a sedan based fuel cell vehicle, at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Toyota wants the driver to remain the most important decision-maker in the car despite the influx of technology that can take away that responsibility and rising pressure from rivals determined to debut self-driving vehicles by 2020.