Toyota has disabled several of their Twitter accounts after being called out for spamming people that talked about the Super Bowl on Twitter. What Toyota did was create several accounts and launched a campaign called the “Camry Effect a Friend! Giveaway.” All of the Toyota accounts that spammed people were “Verified.”

Ford and Toyota have announced a “memorandum of understanding” that partners the two companies in creating a hybrid platform for rear-wheel drive SUVs and light trucks. The collaboration also includes a partnership to further the future of telematics standards. Ford and Toyota will be “equal partners” in creating the hybrid system, Engadget reports.

Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE:TM) and Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) have signed an agreement to develop an electric version of the RAV4. Toyota and Tesla are aiming to market the electric vehicle in the U.S. by 2012. The prototypes would be a Toyota RAV4 with a Tesla electric powertrain. The first prototype has been built and is going through testing. [Tesla PR]

Toyota Motor Corp. and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is going to work together on making Toyota’s cars Internet-enabled. Microsoft and Toyota will be investing $12 million in Toyota Media Service Co., a unit of Toyota that handles digital services. Toyota will make their digital services based on Microsoft’s Azure “cloud computing” platform with a roll-out expected in 2015.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has asked Toyota to remove the theme from Cydia. Cydia is a directory of applications that is usable on jailbroken iPhones or iPod Touch devices. Modmyl founder Kyle Matthews was hosting and advertising Toyota’s theme. Toyota’s ad agency contacted him earlier this week and asked them to remove it. Toyota said: “Toyota had agreed to do so to ”maintain their good relationship with Apple.” [AppAdvice]

Japanese automotive company Toyota Motor Corp. is estimating that they will have a production loss of 40,000 vehicles due to the earthquake and tsunami that occurred in the Asian country. Toyota spokeswoman Shiori Hashimoto said that about 12 plants will remain closed until March 16. Toyota’s profit will most likely decline by 6% ($72 million) as a result. Goldman Sachs also predicts that Nissan and Honda will both loss about $24 million per day that they remain closed. [4WheelsNews]

Last year Toyota had a record number of recalls in 2010. Its only the beginning of 2011 and now Toyota is recalling 1.7 million vehicles across the globe. The reason of the recall is because there are defects in the fuel system caused by insufficient tightening of a fuel pressure sensor that connects to an engine fuel delivery pipe. Over time, the pressure sensor may loosen and leak fuel out of a gasket used to connect the sensor and the pipe. The recalls include the Avensis sedan, station wagon models across Europe, and a dozen different models in Japan. The U.S. models affected by the recalled include the 2006 through 2007 Lexus GS300 and GS350 models, 2006 through early 2009 IS250 models, and 2006 through early 2008 IS350 sedans. Dealers will determine whether a leak has developed.

Japanese car company Toyota has announced a new entertainment system called Entune. Entune will be implemented in certain car models. Entune will have applications, Bluetooth, and text messaging replay and read-back. Apps on Entune include Bing, Pandora, iheartradio, OpenTable, Pandora, and MovieTickets.com. Entune will also have fuel price alerts, stock alerts, weather reports, sports scores, etc. Below is the full press release: