Automakers

Toyota said it would expand a November recall to fix all U.S, Tundra pickups for the 2000 to 2003 model years to address a risk that part of the truck’s frame could corrode, causing spare tires or even the gas tank to drop to the road.

Toyota has named former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater to head a new panel that will advise the company’s North American operations on quality and safety issues.

Toyota Motor Corp. has asked a Michigan appeals court to intervene to keep its top two U.S. executives from being grilled by lawyers for the family of a woman killed while driving a Camry in 2008. The appeal was filed late Monday after a Flint, Mich.

U.S. safety regulators and Toyota Motor Corp. dispatched investigators to San Diego today to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway. U.S.

None of the three leaders of the rejected-dealers group that successfully lobbied Congress for a new arbitration law got a reinstatement phone call from General Motors Co.

Continental AG’s tire division is gearing up for the demands of the future.

General Motors Co. is introducing its first in-house diesel engine control unit on the new Opel/Vauxhall Meriva small minivan, making the carmaker independent of unit suppliers such as Robert Bosch AG and Magneti Marelli.

When Plex Systems Inc. hooked up Inteva Products’ 14 plants worldwide with a new manufacturing management information system in just 12 months, Dennis Hodges was pleased and relieved.

A battle is raging for the tens of thousands of customers Toyota has lost since its recall crisis erupted six weeks ago — “a dogfight,” says one analyst who sees Toyota losing market share over the long term.

If you’re puzzled by the serial reorganizations of General Motors Co.’s sales and marketing staffs, here’s the simple explanation: Ed Whitacre wants to sell more cars — NOW.