Tag Archive for ‘Toyota’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pejero’s 1981 Toyota Starlet
You won’t see many of these on the street: Lito Pejoro’s 1981 Toyota Starlet. Toyota made these little monsters from 1981 through 1983. It’s rear-wheel drive, fast and light. Later cars moved to front-wheel drive and the Starlet eventually became the boring Tercel. That sick wide-body? Yeah, a Toyota option in Japan. Who knew the [...]
Hair raising crash and recovery
Words and pictures courtesy of Turbonetics and Marshall Pruett, even though it came through a PR, we think it’s a good read. They went into the race weekend hoping for a solid finish and came out of it with a tale to tell for the rest of their lives. It should have been the end [...]
Prius plant postponed pending petrol price plunge
Toyota is delaying its plan to build the Toyota Prius in a new plant in Mississippi indefinitely. The world’s #1 automaker attributed the move to a “steep decline” in U.S. sales. With the recent free-fall of gas prices, Prius sales dropped like a dead pigeon. Prius sales for November 2008 were barely half of the [...]
The retention winner is… Honda!
Every year, for the past six, J.D. Power and Co. compiles a list celebrating the winners and losers in the game of customer retention. For the first time ever Honda has been crowned as the king of retention with a total of 64.7% choosing a Honda to replace their Honda, followed closely by Toyota with [...]
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