“Toyota Prius” on The Daily Caller

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)

NEW YORK (AP) — One out of every two cars will be either hybrids or some other alternative-fuel vehicle by 2040, Exxon Mobil predicted Thursday. (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)

One of the more endearing qualities of the American people is their appetite for excess. Bureaucrats have fashioned careers on wagging their plump fingers at excess, and documentary filmmakers built an industry on reprimanding free people for living their lives, but then again, these merchants of guilt could find fault with box seats at Wrigley. (more)

“This is for all the idiots out there that belong on the bus: get off the road, and stay off if you can not stop your car,” says the masked man in this riveting new documentary on how to solve the popular Toyota Prius’ break problems by putting the car in neutral. Why the narrator opted for a mask is unclear because it is unlikely this helpful and wholesome clip would ever cost the man personal or professional embarrassment. Unless he’s a Toyota executive, anyway. (more)

Toyota is casting doubt on a California man’s claim that his Prius sped out of control on a California freeway, saying Monday that it found “significant inconsistencies” between the the man’s story and the company’s preliminary findings. (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)

Police have arrested a South Korean couple whose toddler starved to death while they were raising a virtual child online, authorities said. (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)

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)