(AFP/File) - The Toyota logo on display at the New York International Auto Show in March 2010. Toyota said its sales plunged 31.4 percent to 148,388 vehicles in August compared with 225,088 last year.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)
(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Toyota said Wednesday its US auto sales fell 31.4 percent in August compared with a year earlier, when the Japanese automaker's sales were boosted by a government-funded incentive program.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)
(AFP/File) - Customers look at a Toyota Prius vehicle at Toyota Motor's showroom in Tokyo in August 2010. New vehicle sales in Japan jumped 46.7 percent in August year-on-year, an auto industry group said, as buyers rushed to make the most of soon-to-expire subsidies for green cars.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)
(Canadian Press) - Karrigan Watters, 2, plays with a Toyota bobble head doll before the IRL Peak Antifreeze and Motor Oil Indy 300 auto race at ChicagoLand Speedway in Joliet, Ill., Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
(AP) - Karrigan Watters, 2, plays with a Toyota bobble head doll before the IRL Peak Antifreeze and Motor Oil Indy 300 auto race at ChicagoLand Speedway in Joliet, Ill., Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
(AFP/File) - Workers make final check of a Corolla vehicle at Toyota assembly plant in Toyota city, Japan. Japanese automaker Toyota has announced the recall of 1.13 million of its popular Corolla vehicles in North America due to an engine defect that could make the car to stop while driving.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)
(AFP/File) - Workers make final check of a Corolla vehicle at Toyota assembly plant in Toyota city, Japan, in 2005. Japanese automaker Toyota announced Thursday the recall of 1.13 million of its popular Corolla vehicles in North America due to an engine fault. Toyota, the world's largest car manufacturer, said the recall was issued for Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles built between 2005 and 2008.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)
(Reuters) - The logo on a 2010 Toyota Corolla automobile is seen at a Toyota dealership in Daly City, California February 17, 2010. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
(Reuters) - A visitor looks at Toyota Motor Corp's Prius hybrid car at the Toyota Motor Corp showroom in Tokyo August 4, 2010. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
(AP) - In this photo taken Monday, July 26, 2010, David Sandalow, the Department of Energy's Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, poses by his Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid vehicle at his home in Washington. Sandalow's shows the lithium ion battery of his Prius, which was converted two years ago to allow him to recharge the battery from an electric outlet. The car gets more than 80 miles per gallon and lets him drive 30 miles on a single charge. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)