Toyota Marin

The Southern Indiana region is about to see an expansion at one of their larger auto facilities, thus creating more US-based jobs. The New Albany assembly line is planning to create 30 more jobs for the area. It's not huge, but in this economy every bit helps.

The plant will create and supply parts for the upcoming Toyota Camry model, and all 30 positions will be filled before a 2013 deadline.

TG Missouri, who owns the plant that manufactures consoles, dashboard equipment, painted trim parts and other safety components, will invest more than $3 million to upgrade machinery at…

The Toyota Prius is the world's best selling and extremely quiet hybrid car. When the electric engine takes over control of the vehicle, it becomes almost silent. This has been an issue in some areas, especially those with high pedestrian and bicycle powered traffic.

Several accidents involving a collision between hybrid cars and those on foot or on pedals has raised concerns that the Toyota Pius is too quiet. Toyota is working on a solution to this issue.

In Japan, Toyota will start selling a $148 speaker system, which will emit sounds under the hood to help it achieve…

The all new Toyota Prius Plug-in will be coming to New York. Six of the company's test vehicles are headed to Central New York to road test on real world conditions.

The demonstration project is a combined partnership of Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc., Clean Communities of Central New York, Syracuse University, the Syracuse Center of Excellence and CuseCar, a Syracuse not-for-profit car-sharing service.

The plug-in hybrid vehicle has an electric motor along with a gasoline engine. The Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid has a range of 13 miles at speeds up to 62 mph on electric power. When the…