Toyota Motor Co., struggling to come up quickly with a solution for cars recalled for potentially faulty gas pedals, will disclose the details of its fix on Monday morning.

Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing , Earnings/Financials After gathering real-time transaction data from 8,900 automotive franchisees across the U.S., J.D. Power and Associates predicts new-vehicle retail sales will have declined for January 2010 compared to one year ago. January’s new-vehicle sales are expected to come in at 500,900 units, which represents ..readmore

Filed under: Motorsports , Ford , Subaru Rally America Sno*Drift 2010 – Click above for high-res image gallery Travis Pastrana has no shortage of critics who claim the daredevil is skating on thin ice. Okay, that was a terrible segue into this year’s Sno*Drift, the opening event in the ..readmore

Toyota Motor Co., struggling to come up quickly with a solution for cars recalled for potentially faulty gas pedals, will disclose the details of its fix on Monday morning.

Toyota Motor Co., struggling to come up quickly with a solution to fix cars recalled for potentially faulty gas pedals, will disclose the details on Monday morning. A senior Transportation Department official told The Detroit News that Toyota had presented it with a fix and it did not object. ..readmore

Toyota plans to reveal details of the fix to stick gas pedals on Monday, according to two dealers.

Toyota Motor Co., struggling to come up quickly with a solution to fix cars recalled for potentially faulty gas pedals, told dealers on Saturday that it had a remedy and would disclose the details on Monday morning.

Filed under: Marketing/Advertising , Videos Click above to watch the video after the jump It seems like only yesterday that Internet companies dominated the Super Bowl commercial water-cooler talk, but in fact it was a full decade ago. While most of those businesses are long gone, the few remaining ..readmore

Filed under: Etc. , UK , Celebrities Reports like this make us glad the Autoblog Podcast is audio-only. A new survey of British television viewers finds that the UK wants more smartly-dressed personalities and pundits. 1,000 people were asked their thoughts about fashion on the telly, and two-thirds of ..readmore

Filed under: Detroit Auto Show The 2009 edition of the Detroit Auto Show was depressing on a variety of levels, ranging from the number of automakers who either pulled out or didn’t bring anything new, to the industry’s general malaise as a whole. The show was upsetting on a ..readmore

Filed under: Sedan , Hatchback , Ford , Lincoln , Mercury , Rumormill Lincoln Concept C – Click above for high-res image gallery According to Automobile Magazine , Ford is putting Mercury on its list. Sorry, we couldn’t help ourselves. Specifically, the list in question contains the names of ..readmore

Detroit — Three people briefed on the matter say Toyota Motor Corp. has received clearance from federal regulators on a fix for the company's sticky gas pedals.

Toyota Motor Corp. received clearance from federal regulators on a fix for the company’s sticky gas pedals, three people briefed on the matter said on Saturday.

Filed under: Chrysler , Dodge , Jeep , Toyota 2010 Dodge Ram HD – Click above for high-res image gallery Earlier this week, General Motors and announced that it would offer special incentives to Toyota owners in an effort to capitalize on the Japanese automaker’s recent recall troubles . ..readmore

Filed under: Recalls , Safety , Toyota Click above to view the video after the jump We’re all gearheads here at Autoblog, with varying degrees of mechanical competence. But when the time comes to get technical – really technical – we inevitably hit up our own Sam Abuelsamid to ..readmore

Filed under: Etc. The movie Cars 2 is slated for release in Summer 2011, and that means that Hollywood CGI types are busy sketching, rendering and compositing. Production artwork (seen above) found in Disney’s annual report, has Lightning McQueen running in Japan ahead of what we’d imagine is a ..readmore

Tokyo — American Toyota owners are understandably alarmed about ballooning recalls over faulty gas pedals and floor mats. In Japan, the automaker's home market, where there have been no such recalls, the reaction is — also understandably — muted.

Filed under: Budget , Geneva Motor Show , Hatchback , Toyota 2010 Toyota Auris – Click above for high-res image gallery Toyota isn’t saying much about the refreshed 2010 Auris right now, waiting for the Geneva unboxing, but here are a couple of photos to get you excited. It ..readmore

Filed under: Car Buying , Coupe , Performance , Truck , Europe , Bugatti , Mercedes-Benz 2007 Bugatti Veyron with matching Mercedes Atego transporter – Click above for image gallery We never thought we’d see the day when someone would have to sweeten the deal to sell a car ..readmore

Ford has insisted for some time that it still considers Mercury a vital part of its future plans and has broadly hinted that a new model is on the way for the long-neglected brand. Now it looks as though the Blue Oval is…