“Prius” on The Daily Caller

What would you do if you stumbled into a secret warehouse full of brand new cars? Well, step into the shoes of Miami-Dade County officials to find out. (more)

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota raised its global sales target for this year to 8.58 million vehicles, up 21 percent from the previous year, as incentives for ecological cars lift demand in Japan. (more)

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PSA Peugeot Citroen will unveil the world’s first diesel-electric car this week to take on Renault SA’s all-electric strategy as both French carmakers play catch- up to Toyota Motor Corp. (more)

President Obama visited Holland, Michigan on Thursday to celebrate a potential success story for both the stimulus package and his auto bailout — the groundbreaking of a factory that will produce the lithium-ion batteries necessary to power thousands of new green vehicles built by Ford and General Motors. (more)

The latest instance of sudden, uncontrolled acceleration in a Toyota – an incident Monday in which a Prius hit 94 mph on a freeway east of San Diego before the driver got it under control- raises the question: What do you do if this happens to you? (more)

Congress dragged Toyota to Washington to testify in one of the indignant show trials they so love. I wish they would subpoena themselves and bring Congress before a Senate hearing, under oath and under the hot lights of TV cameras. Then we might get to the roots of most problems in America: too much government intervention, confusing rules, and second-guessing politicians. (more)

When I last wrote for Bloomberg BusinessWeek about Toyota, there had been two recalls that covered nearly 5 million vehicles, but it seemed to me tht the actual defects were small. Don’t get me wrong: People had died and others were claiming to be injured, which is as serious as it gets.In my mind, however, those specific problems—and even the subsequent discovery of brake problems in the hybrid Prius—were far from an indictment of Toyota’s engineering and manufacturing processes. Journalists were wildly speculating about why Toyota quality had gone downhill, blaming too-rapid growth, cost-cutting, and weaknesses in the philosophy of the Toyota Way. “This is nuts, ” I thought. (more)

Between the Super Bowl and word that thousands of Prius hybrids could soon join the millions of vehicles already being recalled, Sunday threatened to be an awful day at Toyota of Glendale. (more)

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Toyota Motor chief executive Akio Toyoda apologized Friday for the problems that led to the company’s recall of more than 8 million cars. But it did not announce another recall of its popular Prius Hybrid, despite reports of brake problems. (more)

TOKYO (AP) — The Toyota Prius was the top-selling car in Japan last year — the first time a gas-electric hybrid has clinched that spot. (more)