Toyota California Moving to Texas
28 Apr 2014, 13:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / According to some people familiar with Toyota, the US sales headquarters located in southern California is ready to be moved to Dallas, thus bringing more operations close together for better commun...
In Sierra Leone, a Board Game Will Grant You a Drivers License...Eventually
25 Apr 2014, 11:12 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As a young person preparing for its driver’s license exam, you might have been used a PC driving simulator to make sure you’re gonna do fine in the actual test. Most of them are 3D and y...
History of Car-Wrecking Games and How “Next Car Game” Will Change It
24 Apr 2014, 16:14 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Most of us are driving each day on public roads having to deal with high fuel prices, stupid drivers, car jams, careless pedestrians, potholes and taxes. Perfect ingredients to make you snap and wis...
Volvo Torslanda Plant Celebrates 50th Anniversary, Innaugurates TA3 Body Shop
24 Apr 2014, 15:58 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Half a century after the opening of the Gothenburg-based Torslanda plant, Swedish automaker Volvo inaugurated today the opening of its new TA3 body plant. The facility will be used to manufacture th...
This is How Many Trash Cans Toyota US Spared the Earth Since 2009
23 Apr 2014, 16:49 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Imagine that each dot in the picture above is a trash can. Can you picture it? OK, because that’s how 1,9 million trash cans might look if you put all of them together and take a picture from ...
Toyota Corolla Now Exporting to South and Central America
18 Apr 2014, 12:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Mississippi-made products such as luxury furniture, petroleum items, cotton and paper are finding their way to out the US each year. And now the 2014 Toyota Corolla will add up, with the automaker o...
Here’s How Toyota Made Its Engines More Efficient
17 Apr 2014, 13:14 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As you may have heard, Toyota just revealed two new thermal efficient gasoline engines. They don’t exceed a capacity bigger than 1.3-liters but the automaker said they are 10 percent more fuel...
European Ford Sales On the Rise for the 10th Consecutive Month
16 Apr 2014, 12:58 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The Blue Oval's European division is enjoying its fourth successive quarter of year-over-year sales gains. Ford's market share rose to 8.9 percent in March 2014, while its share in the com...
Wolfgang Durheimer Becomes Bentley CEO Once Again
15 Apr 2014, 19:00 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Bentley has today appointed a new CEO, in the person of Wolfgang Durheimer. The executive, who has been Bentley and Bugatti’s CEO in the past, comes from his position of the Volkswagen Group&r...
How to Read Your Toyota VIN Code
15 Apr 2014, 21:49 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Since vehicles started to be mass produced, every automaker out there started using VIN codes (Vehicle Identification Number) on each of their cars. Every car has its unique number which is used for...
Toyota Replacing Some Factory Robots With Humans To Increase Quality
12 Apr 2014, 18:34 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota Motor Corporation is the top automaker when it comes to using robots for its vehicle production. This was a major factor which made it the top automaker with annual vehicle production surpass...
Toyota New Fuel-Efficient Gasoline Engines Unveiled
10 Apr 2014, 13:50 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota continues its research for maximizing engines’ thermal efficiency and today, the Japanese automaker revealed two new improved engines. They’re small, but they are said to be at le...
Cadillac and Buick Top J.D. Power Customer Satisfaction Study
10 Apr 2014, 08:58 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / General Motors hit it big with the latest customer satisfaction J.D. Power study, Cadillac getting the highest rating among luxury brands, while Buick topped the mass market brands category. The 201...
McLaren Ends 12C Production
4 Apr 2014, 16:18 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After previously pausing 12C production to start 650S offensive, the Woking sports car manufacturer has now announced customers that it is discontinuing the supercar. McLaren has sent a letter to 12...
Lexus - First Automaker Offering Standard Rearview Cameras in Australia
2 Apr 2014, 14:57 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As vehicles these days tend to come with all sorts of designs that block out your rear view surroundings, US’ National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently announced that all...
How Audi Plans to Reinvent the Petrol Engine
31 Mar 2014, 12:01 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Audi’s engineers are currently working overtime to develop the carmaker’s next-generation petrol engines and, as usual, the Germans have quite a plan. The entire VW Group is looking to b...
How To Use a Gas Pump as a Weapon... of Love: Ad
28 Mar 2014, 15:49 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Gas station chain ads have always been something special - the dinosaur juice is seriously overpriced in many parts of the world, so since people are paying that much for petrol, they could at least...
Indonesia-Made Toyota Vios Getting Exported to Middle East Starting Now
27 Mar 2014, 17:09 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota’s Indonesia vehicle production subsidiary PT. Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia (TMMIN) today started to export locally-made sedans to the Middle East, following the minivan model al...
Lexus RC F’s Instrument Panel Is a Brilliant Thing
26 Mar 2014, 15:00 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / When we saw the LFA-inspired instrument cluster on the 2014 Lexus IS F Sport we thought things can’t get better than that. It was so simple yet so interesting to look at and the way it was mov...
Toyota Developing World-First Vehicle Wiring Harnesses Recycling System
25 Mar 2014, 13:20 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Around 40 years’ worth of mineable copper resources remain worldwide at the moment and global consumption for this highly conductive metal is growing pretty fast along with vehicle production ...