Toyota’s training of workers to maintain quality control failed to keep up with the company’s rapid growth, its president, Akio Toyoda, said in an interview published today.

Embattled Toyota has been hit by a new quality control problem, it emerged today, as the world’s biggest car maker moved to repair nearly one million vehicles in the US and Japan with potentially leaky oil hoses.

The head of Toyota faces angry US politicians today in an attempt to limit even more damage to the company over its safety recall of millions of cars.

Japan's transport ministry may reform its car recall system, reports said today, as Toyota faces accusations of delays over drivers' complaints.

Toyota president Akio Toyoda will attend a US government hearing next week about the car maker’s massive recalls.

Toyota is looking into possible power-steering problems with the Corolla subcompact, the world’s best-selling car, the car giant’s quality control executive said today.

Toyota took full-page ads in major Japanese newspapers today to apologise for massive recalls and began fixing braking faults on two problem hybrid models as pressure mounted on the car maker to come clean over defects.

Toyota’s under-fire president will reveal more tomorrow about the company’s massive global recall following severe criticism for being largely invisible during the crisis.

The president of car giant Toyota faced a huge backlash from the Japanese media today for failing to offer a convincing explanation over the massive worldwide car recall.

Toyota’s president today apologised for the car company’s global recalls.

Toyota’s decision to suspend US sales of eight of its most popular models - including the Camry, America’s best-selling car – to fix faulty accelerator pedals could spread to Europe.

FORMULA ONE manufacturer Renault are understood to have held a board meeting in Paris yesterday relating to their involvement in the sport.

Toyota today confirmed they are pulling out of Formula One with immediate effect for financial reasons.

Toyota’s entire product line-up is to be reviewed to better focus its offerings to each global region, the firm’s new president said today.

Japanese car giant Toyota unveiled its new Prius hybrid today saying it already had 80,000 advance orders amid increasing competition with Honda’s rival Insight car.

Toyota Motor Corp has said that incoming president Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the company's founder, will be a driver on their team in a 24-hour endurance race in Germany.

Car giant Toyota is considering cutting more than 1,000 full-time jobs in the UK and North America amid faltering global demand, it was reported today.