Jon Lancaster Toyota

The financial news periodical known as Bloomberg, that usually contains daily economic news (which is essentially ominous) had a encouraging update after the events that happened last week in Japan. Toyota Motors will restart their parts production line this week, and open their vehicle assembly line again on March 22nd. This news come only days after the region was devastated by a huge earthquake, followed by a powerful tsunami.

Models like the all new Toyota Prius and Toyota Yaris have been put on hold since the quake struck Friday, March 11th 2011. Toyota officials worried about an indefinite closure after…

Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia currently builds six-speed transmissions for many of Toyota's V6-engine models, including the Toyota Avalon, the Toyota Camry, the Toyota Sienna, the Toyota Venza, and even the Lexus RS350. Now, Toyota is planning to invest a hefty sum of $64 million in its West Virginia facility to further expand the plant's production of six-speed automatic transmissions. The ultimate goal is to bring annual transmission capacity to just under 400…