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Toyota stamped their feet earlier claiming the IIHS Top Safety Pick awards were "extreme and misleading." Now, Russ Rader of the IIHS responds, saying, basically, Toyota can put its cars where its mouth is. So basically, bring it Toyota, don't sing it.
Tuesday, Nov 17
Full response from Toyota below: IIHS' statement that Toyota was shut out for 2010 is extreme and misleading, considering there are 38 Toyota, Lexus and Scion models, and only three were tested for roof strength by IIHS: Camry, RAV4 and Yaris.
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The all-new 2010 Equinox is a compact crossover that combines distinctive design, extensive functionality and outstanding efficiency. At 32 mpg highway, the Equinox gets better fuel economy than the Honda CR-V and the Toyota RAV-4. It even beats the Ford Escape Hybrid while costing $7,...
First we'd just like to say as consumers of horsepower and torque, we're quite happy with the improvements since 1980. We're wondering if Mr. Kittle has ever tried to merge into freeway traffic in a 1980 Toyota Corolla. Not a pretty sight.
Monday, Nov 16
It was little more than half-a-century ago the armies of Rome, Berlin and Tokyo were defeated by Detroit's "Arsenal of Democracy" equipped by American carmakers. Yet to hear it lately from conservatives and leaders in the Republican Party, American automakers are what's wrong with thi...
Sunday, Nov 15
The Forum Wars" is the show to be featured on Speed TV where forum users and their cars get the chance to put up or shut up. Each episode will feature two cars representing two different automotive forums. The drivers are interviewed and get the chance to talk smack about the competition. Then,...
Friday, Nov 13
This Australian ad for the Hybrid Synergy Technology used in the Toyota Prius and other hybrids draws a parallel between gas/electric harmony and having a weird guy attached to your butt all day. Ya...
Tuesday, Nov 10
Perhaps Toyota, with its humbling losses and its exit from Formula One, has gone over the hill—while Chrysler has found itself a particularly lucrative market for trucks, where demand for new vehicles is guaranteed not by rebates but by American firepower. And nobody likes to stick with...
Monday, Nov 9
VW-Porsche has overtaken Toyota as the world's largest automaker, at least through the first nine months of 2009, having produced 4.4 million cars to Toyota's 4.0 million. Somebody warn Poland. But none of that changes the fact that Volkswagen has quickly passed Toyota and GM at the top of th...
But a modern SM is not a Toyota job. In spite of occasional displays of deep petrolhead inspiration—the 2000GT, the AE86, the LFA—Toyota does not make touring cars you’d like to tour in high style in. The modern SM should be a Honda, built on Soichiro Honda’s legacy of mechanical madness and r...
Saturday, Nov 7
These cars are rare even in their native Japan, so it was an exciting moment for loyal Jalopnik reader Nick to spot one in Central America. Hey, check out that Dave Zinn Toyota emblem on the trunk lid; looks like this car made the drive from Florida to about 1,000 miles to the southwest. Here's w...
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Wednesday, Nov 4
After spending nine years and over $2.4 billion dollars without a single race victory, Toyota has officially dropped out of Formula One. As you can see from the photo, Toyota Motorsport Chairman Tadashi Yamashina was quite broken up about it.
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Thursday, Oct 22
The Lexus LFA is a beastly car, no doubt about that, but the approximate $400,000 price tag is giving everyone pause. Click more to see how it compares to twenty of the recently debuted $20K Toyota FT-86s. Either way, we're just amazed Toyota debuted two cars we can be excited about at the same...
First it was violence, then bulging wastelines, now video games are being blamed for falling vehicle sales in Japan, at least by one unnamed Toyota exec. The argument? Games are so good lately there's no interest in buying actual cars.
Wednesday, Oct 21
But Apple’s aesthetics creep through and define modern industrial design. Observe this info-display made by Toyota for last month’s Frankfurt Motor Show to advertise their new Prius: it is as close to an iPhone as you can get without actually manufacturing a handheld computing device w...
Tuesday, Oct 20
Yes, at $400,000 you could buy many Nissan GT-Rs for that kind of money, but from what we're told, the Toyota LFA is worlds beyond even the GT-R's capability. This type of assertion is the kind of thing which bends the limits of our fragile little minds, but we'll just have to wait and see. Give t...
What's that? You can't imagine a Toyota that might consider offering a fun, affordable, two door with a modicum of sportiness and some seriously interesting style? Might we introduce you to the Toyota FT-86 concept — the first Toyota (barring the epic Lexus LFA) we've been genuinely exc...
We've seen the Toyota FT-86 for a couple of weeks, carefully dissected the delicious, metallic red sports car in any way we can, but now we've actually seen it in the flesh and Toyota's got some...
Mark your calendars, today Toyota has birthed its first supercar, the specs and complete images of the production Lexus LFA have been released and by all measure it's going to make the Italians and Germans break into a cold sweat. For those of you who have been quietly shaking your heads as T...
The 2010 Toyota Mark X will sell in Japan and other Asian nations and shares the rear-wheel-drive Crown/GS platform, but when it debuts at the Tokyo Motor Show everyone will know exactly where to...
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The newest Mark X maintains the trademarked X-marks-the-spot grille treatment and adds to the rest of the car some additional curves. Curves which in some instances, like the front wheel arches, which remind us of the current Mercedes S-Class. The car rides on the same rear-wheel-drive c...
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Monday, Oct 19
Just in time for this week's Tokyo Motor Show, Lotus has pulled the cloth off a limited-to-just-35-units Lotus called the Exige Scura. Scura means "dark" in Italian. In Japanese, however, it must mean something naughty. They'll call it "Stealth" here.
Saturday, Oct 17
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Thursday, Oct 15
The results indicated men consciously or unconsciously use flashy cars as a signaling method to prove their sexual worth, something like a mechanical peacock tail, which in all reality didn't need to be studied to be confirmed. It is interesting though, in that this study is essentially...
Wednesday, Oct 14
The Toyota FT-86 concept is the fruit of cooperation between Toyota Motor Company and Subaru, and as such will wear a common chassis and some degree of engine commonality, at the least a 2.0 liter, four cylinder boxer engine dubbed the "C-45 Boxer" and making between 200 and 250 HP will powe...
Friday, Oct 9
The video — which we've helpfully taken screen caps from for above — features the FT-86 concept, the Honda CR-Z Hybrid near-production coupe concept, the Mitsubishi PX-MiEV SUV concept, the Mazda Kiyora concept and the production version of the Nissan Leaf — all filmed by the fine folks...
The Tokyo Motor Show preview doesn't start until October 21st, but somehow this video — featuring the first live shots of the Toyota FT-86, Nissan Leaf and, like, everything else — leaked...
Thursday, Oct 8
loaner cars were not done because they are not for sale at the time. toyota said to remove all weather mats from cars if they had them in the trunk. so, every one of those cars on our lot (including show room cars of course) now looks like this crap.
Wednesday, Oct 7
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Tuesday, Oct 6
Make: Chevy Model: Impala Damage: Side Crash Current Bid: $1,425 Make: Toyota Model: Yaris Damage: Side/Bumper Current Bid: $950 Make: Nissan Model: Murano Damage: Side Crash Current Bid: $3,175 Make: Toyota Model: Matrix Damage: Front And Side Damage Current Bid: $400
The Toyota FT-86 Concept is an exciting step forward for the vanilla automaker, blending cues from the past (the Toyota AE86) with hints of ToMoCo future. We dissect the design below to see how they've accomplished this delicate feat.
The Toyota FT-EV is supposed to be the everyman electric car, providing highway speeds of 60 MPH and distances of approximately 60 miles per charge. Not bad. But we're not sure where the freaky airship controls, gold interior, or pink turn signals fit it in. Typically, a car gets more realist...
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The iQ-based Toyota FT-EV has been given a truly bizarre styling tweak for its second generation, set to debut later this month at the Tokyo Motor Show, resulting in a cabin that looks like a Narnian...
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A joint Toyota/Subaru sports car project has been in the works for what feels like forever. Now, finally, here's the first look, a heavily production-based concept called the Toyota FT-86 set to debut this month at the Tokyo Motor Show.
Monday, Oct 5
Toyota rose to the occasion: they swapped out Trulli’s slicks and refueled him in 6.6 seconds. Combined with the time he gained on Hamilton during his last, fast lap out, this was enough of a margin to allow Trulli to return in front of Hamilton. The Toyota pit crew was absolutely overjoyed. Tru...
Thursday, Oct 1
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The 2010 North American Car of the Year Short List: • BMW 335d • Buick LaCrosse • Cadillac CTS • Chevrolet Camaro • Ford Fusion/Fusion Hybrid • Ford Taurus • Honda Insight • Kia Soul • Mercedes-Benz E-Class • Porsche Panamera • Subaru Legacy • Suzuki Kizashi • Toyota Prius
Wednesday, Sep 30
In many ways, Saturn's short history, bland products and ultimate failure are emblematic of the wrong thinking and flawed practices that got GM and the American car industry into such trouble in the first place. Established in 1985 (sales began in 1990) to offer a riposte to the growing su...
How It Improves Mobility: Developed by researchers at Riken and Toyota, the machine uses a Brain Machine Interface (BMI) system to read brain waves in order to control smooth left and right turns, as well as forward and reverse turning. A mind control wheelchair makes a lot of sense.
Monday, Sep 28
Halt, my brethren. This is not merely a failing on the respective parts of our automakers; nay, it is also a failing of our American people. All automakers, save for a few European players and our own Cadillac, must be held accountable by the people for stopping production of wagons in favour...
Saturday, Sep 26
Some of my oversights were really obvious head-clutchers (e.g., Trabant, Saab 96, De Tomaso Pantera), while others required making all sorts of crypto-arbitrary judgment calls. In order to prevent the flood of hate mails I got from Land Rover, Jeep, and Toyota FJ freaks with Part I, we're g...
Thursday, Sep 24
The 2010 Toyota 4Runner is all new for 2010, shares the FJ Cruiser platform and offers a 4x4 Trail option. Toyota was uncharacteristically bold enough to send out dented photos of a trip to the Rubicon trail. 2010 Toyota 4Runner Add to Rich Heritage With More Power, Better MPG
Monday, Sep 21
Stock cars are designed to be downforce machines, gluing the cars to the track at speeds of over 200 MPH. Unfortunately, once the cars leave the driving surface all that goes out the window. The front of Kahne's Dodge is the perfect ramp for the Toyota at 180 MPH. Note the other cars quickly drop...
Sunday, Sep 20
Where: Loire, France What: A couple crazy French cars again. Why It's So Confusing: This looks like the classic t-bone at first glance, until you realize there's no other intersection. But even more interesting is the way these cars crumble. Russian steel much?
Saturday, Sep 19
Oh, there were also plenty of Infinitis and Acuras to be picked over for nice non-engine parts, but for every Q45 there must have been five LS400s. Some of them were very clean, too. I sure hope some of these cars survived to become LeMons racers!
Friday, Sep 18
For Toyota, three Supras and two Corollas have taken an overall LeMons win, while last weekend's Mazda victor made it two RX-7s, two Miatas, and a Protege. After that, Honda/Acura and BMW have two wins apiece. The heat was a major factor, with brake failures and blown head gaskets aplenty, a...
Toyota Motor Sales COO Jim Lentz has been pushing for a multi-platform Prius lineup for a year. But this was the first time it has been openly discussed in front of TMS President Yoshi Inaba and Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda. [via Automotive News]
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Tuesday, Sep 15
Electric vehicles of today are less costly than in 1990s, but if you compare them with the other vehicles out there they are still too expensive," Toyota Exec VP Takeshi Uchiyamada told a crowd at the Frankfurt Motor Show. "Unless there is a very big breakthrough in battery costs I don't thi...
The Frankfurt Motor Show has seen the debut of numerous electric cars, but Toyota execs went out of their way to critique electric cars as too pricey for the average buyer. Toyota has long been...
Sunday, Sep 13
It's the eve of the Frankfurt Motor Show — called by some the "Greenest. Show. Ever." Perfect time to reveal the big body-on-frame 2010 Toyota Land Cruiser — a preview of what to expect...
Wednesday, Jul 15
The 2009 Toyota Venza has the unique ability to elicit both howls of displeasure and interjections of apathy, but considering what's popular with the masses, that doesn't matter. The question really appears to be: "Is it a good for Toyota?"
Tuesday, Jun 30
Fusion Hybrid: *** Like the regular Fusion, the Hybrid is a competent handler, if not all that involving. Try pushing things and you're met with terminal understeer, but its limits of adhesion, unlike the Insight, lie beyond the realm of the everyday.
Thursday, Jun 11
1. GT$500 Racing, Toyota Celica Best Lap: 1:31.291 Best Lap: 1:38.455 Best Lap: 1:32.732 Best Lap: 1:32.031 Best Lap: 1:32.499 Best Lap: 1:37.729 Best Lap: 1:34.269 Best Lap: 1:36.622 14. FEMA, Toyota MR2 Best Lap: 1:38.062 Best Lap: 1:35.973 16. King Fu And The Fu King Racers, Toyota Paseo
Wednesday, Jun 10
Despite all outward appearances — it looks like a Toyota Corolla or even, as we first thought, the last-gen Prius jazzed up with the L-Finesse styling language — this Lexus is based on the same platform underpinning the Scion tC and foreign-market Toyota Avensis, with a fully independen...
Tuesday, Apr 14
The Yaris scores a Poor and the Camry gets an Acceptable, but this one seems like it needs another level of bad. In this crash the Yaris crumples up into a pretzel, with the A-pillar severely kinking, the wheel occupying the space where the driver's feet used to be and the door flying open. Yike...
Wednesday, Apr 1
The Toyota Premium Sound System, with a 19-channel amplifier and 20 speakers, offers sound quality comparable to a live performance. 1As of February 2009, as surveyed by TMC 2Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association Assembly Plant: Motomachi Plant, Toyota Motor Corporation
Tuesday, Mar 24
While the Prius uses a similarly functional economy gauge to the Honda Insight and Ford Fusion Hybrid, Toyota's falls behind both in usefulness and far behind Ford's in looks. Toyota knows that Prius buyers are big tech fans, offering a variety of options like the solar sunroof, Lane Keep...
Monday, Feb 23
Developed locally by Toyota Style Australia, the HC-CV (Hybrid Camry Concept Vehicle) had its world premiere ahead of the 2009 Melbourne International Motor Show. Toyota Style Australia corporate manager Paul Beranger said Toyota has evolved the styling of its hybrid vehicles since...
Monday, Jan 5
Plucky Korean upstart Hyundai has beaten rivals from Saab, Pontiac, Lexus, Toyota, Acura and Lincoln; the Genesis has just been named Consumer Reports’ new top-rated upscale sedan. Who knew Hyundai was the new Lexus? The eight other vehicles in the Upscale Sedans category including th...
Wednesday, Oct 22
By City: 1.) Toyota Prius: 48 2.) Honda Civic Hybrid: 40 3.) Nissan Altima Hybrid: 35 4.) Ford Escape/Mariner Hybrid 2WD: 34 5.) Smart Fortwo: 33 Toyota Camry Hybrid: 33 7.) Volkswagen Jetta/SportWagen Diesel: 30 8.) Toyota Yaris: 29 9.) Mini Cooper: 28 Honda FIt: 28
Wednesday, Oct 15
When we talk about how modern trucks tend to smack you in the face with their machismo, the 2008 Toyota Tundra is what we're talking about. It's big, it's burly, it's got incredibly aggressive styling and it lavishes the driver in all manner of gadgetry. For good reason too: Toyota has foreve...
Monday, Oct 6
For the first time in years Toyota is offering 0% financing on 11 of their models, a sign that the company wants to move inventory. With the exception of super-premium automakers like Ferrari and Maserati, who aren't typically impacted by these market fluctuations, most carmakers rely o...
Thursday, Oct 2
Honda Introduces All-New Insight Dedicated Hybrid Concept Vehicle at Paris Motor Show In his speech at the Paris Motor Show, Honda Motor president & CEO Takeo Fukui said, “This new Insight will give more people the chance to get behind the wheel of a high quality hybrid vehicle only H...
Tuesday, Sep 23
The hybrid version of the Toyota Camry is, behind the Toyota Prius, the best-selling hybrid in America, but there are at least ten other cars for sale this year that get better EPA-estimated mileage on the city, highway or combined cycles. Some are diesels, some are hybrids and some are jus...
Friday, Sep 5
Difference #2: The Toyota Prius is very noticeable from the rear because of its squarer clear taillights housing red LED lights. The engineers from Honda have focused on a more angular look for their clear taillights with red LED lights.
Tuesday, Apr 1
And why not, as Press noted the inherent unfairness of competition from Toyota in the hybrid game, saying "...the Japanese government paid for 100% of the development of the battery and hybrid system that went into the Toyota Prius." Phew, that's nice work by an automaker if you can get it. Here...
Friday, Feb 22
We just snapped some fresh pix of the Geneva-bound Toyota Urban Cruiser, caught undisguise on the slick roads of Northern Sweden. Toyota has released one front-end image of the new Urban Cruiser, but we can now show you a full 360-degree view of the car in its showroom trim.
Monday, Jan 14
for the North American market where it will be sold exclusively. Venza was engineered at Toyota Technical Center in Ann Arbor, Mich., and designed at Toyota's Calty design studios in Newport Beach, Calif. and Ann Arbor, Mich. Venza will be assembled at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (...
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Wednesday, Dec 19
December 19, 2007 - Torrance, CA - Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., will stage the world premiere of the all-new 2009 Toyota Venza crossover sedan at a press conference at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
Tuesday, Dec 18
Motor Trend tapped the bulging Toyota Tundra as the 2008 Truck of the Year, besting GM's HDs and Ford's F-X50 Super Duty pickups. The trucks were pitted against each other at Chrysler's Yucca, Arizona testing facility, where the editors could have fun throwing them through various road c...
Friday, Dec 7
Toyota Announces Pricing For All-New 2008 Sequoia The MSRP for the top-of-the-line Sequoia Platinum grade, which also features the 5.7-liter V8 engine as standard, will be $52,375 for the 4x2 model, and $55,600 for the 4x4 model. [ Source: Toyota]
Thursday, Nov 15
Have any Americans ever seen, or even heard of a turbodiesel Toyota Camry? No? Well there ya go- simply by peeling 1500 frogskins off your roll, you could have this 1985 Camry Turbodiesel, thus becoming the only person in your time zone to have one. And the mid-80s Camrys actually have some c...
November 14, 2007 - Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) U.S.A, Inc., unveiled the second-generation Sequoia full-size sport utility vehicle at a press conference today at the 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show. Sequoia is completely new for 2008, with a new body, a new interior, a new chassis, an available new...
Tuesday, Sep 4
The region's 2007 third-quarter production forecast is revised at 1.050 million vehicles (377,000 cars and 673,000 trucks), down 25,000 vehicles or 2 percent from last month's guidance. Additionally, GM North America's initial 2007 fourth-quarter production forecast is set at 1 mil...
Edmunds.com predicts Toyota will sell 245,000 units in August 2007, up 1.9 percent from August 2006 and up 9.2 percent from July 2007. Toyota's market share is expected to be 17.3 percent in August 2007, up from 16.2 percent in August 2006 up slightly from 17.2 percent in July 2007.
Friday, Jul 13
Japan has given the world mecha and tentacle rape, dekotora, giant rubber monsters, futomaki, affordable, reliable digital watches, Starlets, Starions and dorifto. They also insist on pixelating genitals in pornography, although the uncensored workarounds include some acts high...
Wednesday, Jun 27
The boffins over at Cars.com have compiled a list of the essentially Americanosity of vehicles on today's domestic market. Ford, Chevy, Pontiac and Toyota all made the list, with the Blue Oval scoring three entries on the list, the Tin Indian one, the Bowtie three and the boys over from Niho...
Wednesday, May 30
The company that's all about overhauling anything with a battery just unveiled a retrofitted ToMoCo Prius with plug-in capabilities and powered by Lithium Technology Corporation's newest "lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) cells." It's a 7 kWh battery comprising 63 of LTC's iron phos...
Tuesday, Oct 3
While we were in Paris enjoying various anise-based cocktails, Toyota's in-house tuning shop, Toyota Racing Development (TRD) released some dirt on its Special Edition package for the FJ Cruiser. According to ToMoCo, $7,265 (manual, $7,250 automatic) will buy FJ buyers a couple of ke...
Wednesday, Aug 23
All the talk about hybrid cars coming out on the losing end of a cost-benefit analysis may not be true exactly, says Edmunds. According to a study by the car-info maniacs, some hybrids cars will cover their price premium within a few years, considering the current level of gas pricing and ta...
Thursday, Apr 6
• Mercedes-Benz Accessories GmbH announces 2006 bike collection [eMercedesBenz] • PSA: Still time for the U.S. hybrid tax credit [Treehugger] • Formula 1: Toyota F1 suspends team's technical director [crash.net] • Spyshot: 2008 Ford Five Hundred bagged! [Edmunds Inside Line]
Friday, Feb 24
Edmunds Inside Line is reporting a technology alliance beween Toyota and GM is set to end next week, and that the two will indeed part as rivals for the position of #1 automaker. The deal, which was struck in 1999, has produced... wait for it... nothing. Toyota reportedly couldn't deal with GM's con...
Friday, Jan 6
By failing to provide real world mileage figures for city, highway and combined driving, by forgetting to put a hard number to the tahoe s improvement in fuel efficiency (more than almost 12% ?), the mag plays straight into the hands of GM s spin machine. More importantly, it s a total abroga...
Friday, Dec 9
Exactly one month from today, we'll see if Toyota's efforts to jolt its brisk-selling midsize sedan from catatonia are successful. The company announced the redesigned 2007 Camry — and Camry Hybrid — will debut at the Detroit show on January 9. Officially, Toyota announced the new Camry "...
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