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Toyota Offering Payment Relief to Government Shutdown Affected Customers
Toyota Offering Payment Relief to Government Shutdown Affected Customers

15 Oct 2013, 08:36 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Due to the lapse in federal government funding and its shutdown, Toyota Financial Services (TFS) announced it is offering payment relief options to customers affected by the issue. “The gov...

 
No New Scion Models for At Least Three Years
No New Scion Models for At Least Three Years

14 Oct 2013, 16:50 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / With the Toyota GT 86 Open (and Scion FR-S convertible implicitly) being postponed indefinitely and the tC getting its facelift, we’ll have to stick around with the same models for the next th...

 
Scion Getting Two New Models... in 2017
Scion Getting Two New Models... in 2017

14 Oct 2013, 15:22 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Even though Scion is in desperate need of brand new models, it seems the US-based brand won't be getting redesigned vehicles for the next three years. Speaking to Edmunds, Toyota US vice pre...

 
Watch How Toyota’s Parking Assist Helps You
Watch How Toyota’s Parking Assist Helps You

11 Oct 2013, 17:00 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / With few exceptions, new drivers and women in general (*angry woman yelling:* You misogynist!) have severe parking issues, needing several attempts to correctly place their car between others in a p...

 
Lexus Talks Alternative Energy
Lexus Talks Alternative Energy

11 Oct 2013, 15:44 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / There are many other fuels we can use to power our future, with hydrogen being the one Toyota chose to research. Of course, you can have biodiesel made out of seeds oil, solar energy, or ethanol ...

 
Toyota Not Guilty in Unintended Acceleration Trial
Toyota Not Guilty in Unintended Acceleration Trial

11 Oct 2013, 14:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The four-and-a-half-day trial just ended, making Toyota not guilty for one of the crash fatalities from 2009 implicating a Camry. Toyota won today an unintended acceleration case in Superior Cour...

 
Toyota Planning 86-Based Sedan
Toyota Planning 86-Based Sedan

11 Oct 2013, 09:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / After we’ve found out that the Toyota GT 86 Open was put on hold indefinitely, there are some rumors claiming that the Japanese automaker is mulling the 86 by planning a sporty sedan based on ...

 
Toyota Launching New Automated Driving System this Decade
Toyota Launching New Automated Driving System this Decade

11 Oct 2013, 09:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota has been researching automated driving technologies since the second half of the 1990s and has conducted numerous road tests in the last years both in the US and Japan. In order to make hi...

 
Lexus RX Among Top 3 Best Selling Luxury Cars in America
Lexus RX Among Top 3 Best Selling Luxury Cars in America

10 Oct 2013, 12:26 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Actually it’s a top 10, but as the popular crossover managed to get past the opposition we don’t care about them. The Top 10 Best Selling Luxury Cars in America recently made by AutoG...

 
Toyota Australia Makes Two-Millionth Locally Built Car
Toyota Australia Makes Two-Millionth Locally Built Car

10 Oct 2013, 10:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Along with Toyota’s 50th anniversary in Australia, the automaker has achieved another manufacturing milestone, recently reaching its two-millionth locally built car for the market. The 75-h...

 
Toyota Receiving 2013 Japan Mecenat Award
Toyota Receiving 2013 Japan Mecenat Award

10 Oct 2013, 09:34 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota Motor Corporation has received a Japan Mecenat Award for its Toyota Arts Management information website. The award was presented by the Japan Mecenat Awards organized by the Association for C...

 
14 Things You Might Not Know about Toyota Hybrids
14 Things You Might Not Know about Toyota Hybrids

9 Oct 2013, 18:13 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Forty years of research and continuous improvement made Toyota synonymous with "Hybrid", being the first automaker to offer a hybrid production vehicle in 1997 and have four times more in ...

 
Four Toyotas in Top 8 Most Fuel Economic Cars of 2013
Four Toyotas in Top 8 Most Fuel Economic Cars of 2013

9 Oct 2013, 16:06 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / With the fuel economy being one of the biggest selling points of a car now, every automaker out there is trying to increase its engines’ efficiency and make it run with less gasoline. While...

 
Scion Supports Project Ethos Event
Scion Supports Project Ethos Event

9 Oct 2013, 11:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Since its creation, Scion has forged deep relationships within the arts community and supported more than 1,900 artists through gallery, music events and other efforts. The next event sponsored by S...

 
Westbury Toyota Hosts “Street Wheelz” Car Show
Westbury Toyota Hosts “Street Wheelz” Car Show

9 Oct 2013, 09:11 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Long Island dealership Wesbury Toyota has partnered with Pink S.H.O.E.S INC in the effort to raise money for Breast Cancer Awareness Month by organizing an entertaining environment for car enthusias...

 
Toyota Targets Young Buyers
Toyota Targets Young Buyers

8 Oct 2013, 17:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It may be the biggest automaker in the world now, but Toyota is concerned about the young people for not sharing their interest in cars like in the old days, when you had to have one to ask a girl o...

 
Team Toyota Joined by New Street Skateboarder
Team Toyota Joined by New Street Skateboarder

8 Oct 2013, 16:29 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / A railing, some stairs, a road and even a 2014 Toyota Corolla, to Omar Salazar these are just hist playgrounds to showcase his approach to street-style skateboarding. Salazar is the newest member...

 
Ford Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Henry Ford’s Moving Assembly Line
Ford Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Henry Ford’s Moving Assembly Line

8 Oct 2013, 12:00 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / October 7 was a great day for Ford (and the whole automotive industry actually) 100 years ago, when Henry Ford and his team fired up the world’s first moving assembly line. Used to built th...

 
Watch the Toyota GT 86 Being Constructed with Passion by Robots
Watch the Toyota GT 86 Being Constructed with Passion by Robots

8 Oct 2013, 14:37 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / When the auto industry was young and 20-liter long-nosed inefficient gas-guzzler cars were starting to raise the noise level in major towns, the small workshops manufacturing them manually took a do...

 
Scion Pure Process: Getting Your Model
Scion Pure Process: Getting Your Model

8 Oct 2013, 13:35 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / After customizing and finding your preferred Scion model, the last part in the Pure Process ideology is to actually buy the car, obviously. If you don’t want to pay the whole price at once,...