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Everybody Piles On Toyota – Even Hollywood
It’s not a good week to be Toyota.
Every day, the news wire rattles and hums with stories of every ambulance-chasing attorney from sea to shining sea jumping on board to sue the world’s largest automaker for every fender-bender in the last 10 years. As if that wasn’t enough, Toyota now has customers suing because the [...]
Toyota Expands Recall – 8 Models Off The Lots
Toyota announced today that it is instructing Toyota dealers to temporarily suspend sales of eight models involved in the recall for sticking accelerator pedal, announced on January 21
Toyota’s tiny Prius: the FT-CH concept
It’s small, it’s green and we gave viewers a sneak-peek of it in our DSTV Extra! back in December. It’s the Toyota FT-CH dedicated hybrid concept. On January 11, the drapes were dropped by Jim Lentz at the 2010 North American International Auto Show in Detroit and we have to say, it’s… erm, cute?
Designed at [...]
2010 Toyota 4Runner – First Drive
The first Toyota 4Runner appeared at the start of the SUV revolution in 1984. Like most of its contemporaries, it was little more than a pickup truck with a permanent “camper shell” on the back. Powered by the same 4-cylinder engine and drivetrain that motivated the comparable pickup trucks, the 4Runner was an affordable alternative [...]
Extra! Volt Dancers, Detroit Preview, Gran Turismo
In this episode of Driving Sports TV’s Extra! you’ll see dancing girls, a plug-in Toyota Prius, Mitsubishi iMiEV, BMW Z4 sDrive35is and Gran Turismo.
Toyota’s Haichi Subaku: 2011 WRX?
Co-developed between Toyota and Subaru, the FT-86 concept is a throwback to the small and fun sports coupe mindset. But, how will an AWD version fit into Subaru’s lineup? We have a theory…
Toyota comes back to sports car thinking
One of the saddest moments in automotive history was Toyota’s decision to move out of the sports car market and focus exclusively on grocery-getters and workmobiles for people who fundamentally don’t know how to drive a car and don’t want to learn.
It was sad because Toyota really does have the right stuff when it comes [...]
New 2010 Prius takes hybrid technology to the next level
Historians will look back at the Toyota Prius as a pivotal change agent for the automotive world. Some of the reasons for this are obvious – the first large production-numbers mass-produced hybrid engine passenger car leaps immediately to mind. Yes, the Honda Insight came first – but in small numbers as a two-seater. But there [...]
China Looks to the Future with Automotive Design Talent
There’s a popular belief in the industrialized world that the global economy is shaping up such that we in the West will do wonderful creative highly paid design work, and people in China will work for low wages in factories building the gadgets and cars that we design. As it says on the box that [...]
Scion tC Release Series 5.0
For a hot little front-wheel drive coupe, you can’t get much better than the tC. That said, the little Scion is starting to get a bit long in the tooth. What to do if you don’t have a new model ready yet? Well, if you’re Toyota you’ll raid the performance parts bin, paint it black [...]
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