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Toyota Motor Corp. has unveiled in Tokyo a prototype for the first pleasure boat under its luxury car brand Lexus.
The hull of “Sport Yacht Concept” was created based on the Lexus design philosophy. The boat has two five-liter gasoline engines, which the Lexus car uses. It is 12....

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TOKYO — Suzuki Motor Corp has equipped its new Wagon R with an umbrella stand capable of draining water.
This is the first time that such a function has been added to a light car. An umbrella can be inserted into a space in the door pocket of the right or left rear seat. Rainwater f...

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TOKYO — Mitsubishi Motors Corp has announced details of its Eclipse Cross compact SUV (sport-utility vehicle).
This time, Mitsubishi Motors realized a coupe style by using the same platform as the Outlander, the company’s main SUV. As a power train, the Eclipse Cross comes with a ga...

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LAS VEGAS (Jiji Press) — Honda Motor Co. at a major trade show in Las Vegas on Thursday unveiled its NeuV concept self-driving car that can also be used as a driverless taxi and earn money.
Using artificial intelligence technology, the two-seater electric vehicle assesses the dri...

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TOKYO — Suzuki Motor Corp has launched a full-hybrid car, which can run on electricity as an electric vehicle (EV).
Suzuki said the Solio compact car can travel up to about 2 km as an EV when its lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery is fully charged.
“It can run (on electricity) for about t...

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DALLAS (Jiji Press) — A private sector-led project to build a high-speed railway between Dallas and Houston is making headway, with technical support from Central Japan Railway Co., better known as JR Tokai, the operator of the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line linking Tokyo a...

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TOKYO — Mitsubishi Motors wants to triple its directors’ pay as Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn gets set to take over as chairman at the automaker dented by a mileage-cheating scandal.
In a notice dated Nov 29, Mitsubishi said it would put a “restructuring of our executive compensation sy...

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TOKYO — Nissan said Tuesday it is selling its stake in auto parts company Calsonic Kansei as the Japanese firm casts off non-core businesses to focus on electric vehicles and self-driving cars.
The automaker is hiving off its 41 percent stake to U.S. buyout firm KKR, which is buying...

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TOKYO — Toyota said on Tuesday its April-September net profit dived 25%, hit by a sharp rally in the yen and as North American vehicle sales fell again, but it upgraded its full-year outlook.
The world’s biggest vehicle maker reported a net profit of 946.1 billion yen ($9.1 billion)...

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TOKYO — Toyota said on Wednesday it was recalling another 5.8 million Takata-made airbags in a global safety scandal blamed for a string of deaths and injuries.
The world’s biggest vehicle maker said it was calling back 1.47 million airbags installed in cars sold in Europe, 1.16 ...

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