According to the Nikkei business daily, Toyota has already received over 75,000 orders for their new 2010 Prius, which looks like it’ll be a fierce competitor for the Honda Insight. The Honda hybrid was launched in Japan back in February and the Japanese carmaker managed to sell 20,000 units in the first three months, a lot more than what they were expecting. Toyota hasn’t yet confirmed these numbers, a spokeswoman for the company saying they haven’t yet compiled dealers’ orders ahead of the scheduled launch on Monday.

Toyota, who is facing an incredible $8.6 billion potential operating loss in the year to next March, is currently going through a major top level management change. The company’s founder grandson, Akio Toyoda, will be named head of the company next month, on June 23, while former executive, Yoshimi Inaba, which left the company in 2007, will be the new head of US operations. In total, more than 40 percent of Toyota’s top managers are or will be replaced.

[Source: Reuters]

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75,000 Toyota Prius already ordered

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With only 22 units built between 1957 and 1958, the Scaglietti designed ‘pontoon-fender’ 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa is one of rarest cars ‘alive’ and that means that whoever owns one owns a small fortune. Because the model you see pictured above, the fourth one ever built and the second customer car was sold this weekend for an incredible amount of money, €9,020,000 (about $12.2 million) at the RM Auctions’ third annual Ferrari Leggenda e Passione event, setting a new world record for the most expensive car ever sold at auction. The 9 million paid for the ‘57 Ferrari is €1,980,000 ($2.6 million) more than the previous record, which was set around this time last year, at the same event, when a 1961 Ferrari California Spyder was sold for €7,040,000 (around $9.5 million).

[Source: RM Auctions]

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New World Record: 1957 Ferrari Testa Rossa sells for $12.2 million

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