General Motors is issuing two recalls for more than 80,000 vehicles. The first is for more than 67,000 Cadillac and Blazer vehicles because a brake system control module defect may cause a loss of braking while driving, and another for more than…
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Yanmar Holdings and Hitachi Construction Machinery have formalised a compact equipment alliance under which Yanmar Compact Equipment North America will build compact track loaders for Hitachi at its Grand Rapids, Minnesota plant, targeting a North American market exceeding 100,000 units annually.
TradingView EcoPro BM: EV weakness cut Q3 results, while ESS and Power Application gains point to non-EV growth Q3 sales and operating profit declined YoY amid EV weakness, while ESS and Power Application revenue rose QoQ. Q4 outlook remains pressured for EVs, with…
The LandCruiser Prado has clawed back the advantage enjoyed by arch-rival Everest, as Toyota expects sales to ramp up with increased supply in the final two months of the year.
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In Cars, Local News, Toyota / by Danny Tan / 5 November 2026 12:17 pm UMW Toyota Motor (UMWT) is introducing Mobili-T Assist, a courtesy car scheme parked under the Toyota Insurance Package (TIP). Mobili-T Assist offers a complimentary courtesy car for up to five…
There’s something refreshing about walking through the SEMA Show and finding a vehicle that doesn’t need four-digit horsepower, an outrageous engine swap, or enough suspension travel to tackle the Baja 1000 to grab your attention. Sometimes, all it takes is a…
Most trucks at the SEMA Show are parked so you can admire the paint. The Tacoma in the MagnaFlow booth is up on a lift with its wheels off, so you can admire the suspension. That’s fitting, because nearly everything…
Honda unveiled "Honda Sensing Ride," an advanced rider assistance system for motorcycles, at EICMA 2026, which opened in Milan, Italy. Built on the technology behind the automaker's four-wheel "Honda Sensing" system, it uses front and rear millimeter-wave radar units and offers…
Few industrial stories rival the rise of Japan's carmakers. In the 1960s their small sedans were curiosities on American roads; by the 1980s they had rewritten what drivers expected of a car. The oil shocks of the 1970s opened the door, and fuel-sipping Civics and Corollas walked through it. What kept customers coming back was something harder to copy: cars that started every morning, kept their resale value and rarely saw the inside of a repair bay, products of the lean manufacturing methods Toyota pioneered and the whole world later studied.
Trade friction shaped the industry as much as engineering. Export limits agreed with Washington in 1981 pushed Japanese firms to build factories in Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky and beyond, and to move upmarket with Acura, Lexus and Infiniti. Enthusiasts got their own golden age, the era of the Supra, NSX, RX-7, Skyline GT-R, Miata and WRX, cars that still command collector prices. Toyota's Prius then made the hybrid mainstream, a technology Japanese brands now sell in enormous numbers.
The picture today is mixed. Toyota is the world's largest automaker by volume and has argued for a multi-pathway approach rather than an all-electric sprint. Honda and Nissan explored a merger in 2025 before talks collapsed, Nissan has been restructuring under heavy losses, and smaller players such as Mazda, Subaru and Mitsubishi lean on partnerships to afford electrification. Suzuki dominates India through Maruti Suzuki, while Chinese EV makers pressure Japanese sales across Asia.
This section gathers news across all of them: new models and reveals, sales and earnings, recalls, factory investments and tariffs, hybrid and battery strategy, the performance cars enthusiasts care about, and the alliances that keep the industry's map shifting. It is also where the bigger arguments play out, from whether Japan bet too cautiously on battery-electric cars to how its brands are coping with American tariffs, a weaker yen and a generation of Chinese rivals that build cheaper, faster and with more software than anyone predicted.
Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mazda, Subaru and friends: the carmakers who taught the world about reliability, then hybrids, now facing the EV and tariff era.
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