Earlier this week, Texas governor Rick Perry gloated that his "pro-business" policies allowed his state to steal 3,000 Toyota jobs from California. If true, that would be terrible public policy. But it now appears it's not true, which is even worse.
Toyota is moving most of its U.S. operations from California to Texas. The state of Texas is paying the company $40 million to relocate. This represents an utterly stupid and useless case of corporate welfare detrimental to the public interest.
Toyota announced yesterday that it's recalling 870,000 cars, in part because spiders are setting off their airbags.
Lies: They travel halfway round the world before the truth gets its boots on. If you don't tell them, you never have to remember anything. Ask me no questions and I won't tell you any. The year that now comes to an end was, like all years, riddled with them. Grand lies and small ones, grave ones and frivolous ones,…
Check out this Wormrot video. You haven't seen hardcore until you've seen Wormrot, amirite? The most hardcore part of all: they are fully owned subsidiary of the Toyota corporation.
A woman who was targeted by Toyota in a creepy, stalker-themed online advertising stunt will be allowed to sue the company, despite the carmaker's argument that she unknowingly agreed to the whole thing.
Congratulations to Brian Ross, America's Wrongest Reporter, for winning a coveted Edward R. Murrow Award honoring his coverage of the Toyota unintended acceleration story. The award, oddly, is for "Video Continuing Coverage" rather than "Fostering Global Panic Based on Bullshit Story." Still, a Murrow is a Murrow,…
One need only look to the iPad 2 feeding frenzies currently gripping China for evidence that Apple is the hottest brand on the planet. And now it's official: Research company Millward Brown puts Apple at the top of their annual 100 global brand power list, knocking Google off the throne its held for four years…
You might be feeling cocky after watching this robot play the violin, because it isn't all that good. But the thing is: It's just showing off. Toyota's "Partner" robots are designed to be personal assistants, and the whole "Oh? Is that a violin? Yeah, I used to take lessons, do you mind if I play a tune?" thing is…
For years, a current photo of the reclusive and bilious blog empress Nikki Finke has been the holy grail of people who care about Nikki Finke. It now appears that such a photo exists, and may be published soon. But Nikki says it's not her.
Remember last spring, when the nation was seized by the fear that every late-model Toyota was on the verge of surging forward on an uncontrollable terror-drive? Well, NASA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration looked into it, and it turns out people were probably just accidentally pressing the gas…
This morning, Tampa resident Sandy Burnham lost her 1995 Toyota Camry to a sinkhole that opened up beneath her parking space in Bordeaux Village Condominium complex. Watch her tell the harrowing story below.
From Kellogg's cereal, to SpaghettiOs, to Toyota/Lexus—ah, Toyota/Lexus!—and more, corporations have been issuing an abnormal amount of recall notices lately. Luckily for us, Lewis Black visited The Daily Show tonight to break it all down... hilariously. Video inside.
Toyota is recalling 270,000 Lexus sedans in Japan due to engine problems.
Fed up with the constant complaints about Toyota's brakes not working, "Akio Toyoda," CEO extraordinare, stopped by the CBS studios to give David Letterman and the Late Show audience a piece of his mind. Even Jay Leno didn't escape unscathed.
Toyota's general counsel is calling on ABC News president David Westin to retract and apologize for a cocked-up story by America's Wrongest Reporter, Brian Ross. UPDATE: ABC News' response is below.
Earlier today, we called out ABC News' Brian Ross for splicing together footage of him driving a Toyota and a surging tachometer into a fake report. ABC News pledged to fix the video. It did—and made it faker.
Brian Ross, America's Wrongest Reporter, has been credited with owning the Toyota recall story, including one memorable report with Ross behind the wheel of an out-of-control car. He did it by splicing in staged footage to make it look scarier.
Usually car companies talk about how awesome their cars are. Since recalling millions of its vehicles, Toyota has had to persuade people their vehicles won't kill them. Today, they bought newspaper ads throughout the country to try to do this.
The new Toyota Yaris ad recently yanked off of television probably holds the world record for most double entendres spoken in one minute. It's hard to say if this ad makes us want to buy condoms or a car.
