toyota

Toyota is aiming for a comeback, targeting global sales of 8.48 million vehicles in 2012 and an even bigger number in 2013, after being battered this year by the March disaster in Japan and flooding in Thailand.

Toyota's global vehicle production has recovered to pre-tsunami levels as of last month, Japan's top automaker said Thursday.

Toyota plans to unveil its first redesign of the Camry in five years on Tuesday.

Toyota forecasts its annual profit to dive 31 percent, hammered by production disruptions from parts shortages, but its outlook Friday projects a robust recovery from the earthquake and tsunami in coming months.

Just last month, the future looked bleak for Toyota.

General Motors is almost certain to claim the title of world's biggest automaker this year, retaking the top spot from Toyota, which has been hurt by production problems since the Japanese earthquake and still can't escape the shadow of major safety recalls.

The Japanese automaker said production wouldn’t return to normal until the end of the year but that production would begin increasing in July as parts suppliers recovered.

Too much publicity can be a bad thing, apparently. It was publicized on Monday that Toyota had started an ad campaign on Cydia.

Well, since Cydia is the repository for apps for jailbroken iDevices, Apple took Toyota aside and spoke to them, and they are now pulling out.

Apple doesn't want advertisers placing ads for the jailbreak community.