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Coverage from the country’s premiere LGBT business conference, the National Gay Lesbian Chamber of Commerce’s 9th Annual National Business and Leadership Conference.

New York’s community leaders gathered on March 8 to welcome Toyota Financial Service’s (a company that has received a 100% HRC Corporate Equality Index) new director of diversity and inclusion, Stephen Lewis.

Aiming to win back customer trust after its string of recalls, Toyota Motor Corp. is offering American buyers of new Toyota- and Scion-brand vehicles two years of regular scheduled maintenance and 24-hour roadside assistance for free.

Toyota is recalling 412,000 passenger cars, mostly the Avalon model, in the U.S. for steering problems in which three accidents have been reported, the automaker said Thursday.

Toyota agreed on Monday to a record $16.4 million fine for its slow response to sticking gas pedals -- the equivalent of a little more than $2 for every vehicle the company sold around the globe in 2009. Read more...

Toyota Motor Corp. is expected to agree to a fine of more than $16 million for failing to promptly report to the government problems with sticking gas pedals on its vehicles, a Transportation Department official said.

Consumer Reports has given the Lexus GX460 a rare "Don’t Buy" warning, saying a problem that occurred during routine handling tests could lead the SUV to roll over in real-world driving.

The U.S. government accused Toyota of hiding a "dangerous defect" and proposed a record $16.4 million fine on Monday for failing to quickly alert regulators to safety problems in gas pedals on popular models such as the Camry and Corolla. Read more...

Already flooded with hundreds of private lawsuits, Toyota now faces a dilemma stemming from safety problems on several popular models: whether to accept a record $16.4 million fine that could be cast as an admission of wrongdoing, or fight the government at the cost of more bad publicity.

Toyota said Friday it is stopping production at its factories in France and Britain for a total of nine days amid falling sales that the company partly attributed to its recent recall woes.