28 Oct 2013, 16:32 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The French-based industrial gas company Air Liquide recently announced to team up with a Toyota subsidiary in order to build a network of fuel-cell filling stations in Japan.
With more than 60 hy...
28 Oct 2013, 15:57 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Remember the Ford Crown Victoria that was used by default as police cruisers, taxis and other government official vehicle? Of course you do, but unfortunately, it has been axed, so we won’t se...
26 Oct 2013, 06:53 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Despite the MotoGP teams and riders being a bit scared by the 7.3 earthquake in the dead of the night, the championship seems to be back on a more usual schedule. The weather cleared a bit, so the b...
25 Oct 2013, 11:42 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Race Direction and team representatives agrees to suspend all on-track operations at Motegi due to the bad weather conditions. There will be no GP action today, as all the three classes are affected...
25 Oct 2013, 07:29 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / It was far from an ideal start for the Japan Grand Prix at Motegi, as the inclement weather forced the organizers to cancel the morning free practice sessions.
All three classes have been affecte...
24 Oct 2013, 15:23 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / We already knew that Katsuyuki Nakasuga was to be a part of the Japan Grand Prix since late August, when the GP Commission confirmed his wildcard appearance at Motegi, aboard an M1 Yamaha bike.
H...
23 Oct 2013, 11:05 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Honda has showed new sweet machinery at the Tokyo Motor Show, but it's still unclear whether they are going to sell these bikes on Western markets as well, or they're just an exclusive tre...
23 Oct 2013, 09:29 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota Motor Corporation announced that it will host a classic car festival in Tokyo next month, to promote and develop automobile culture and encourage car fans interaction.
Toyota Automobile Mu...
22 Oct 2013, 14:49 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disasters back in 2011 caused widespread power outages in Japanese communities such as Ohira, but a remote Toyota plant in the region managed to recover quickly...
22 Oct 2013, 11:24 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Skactiv-G, Skyactiv-D, Skyactiv-MT and soon… Skyactiv-CNG.
The now famous Japanese philosophy for making things go Zoom Zoom a little bit more efficiently will be used for the first time t...
21 Oct 2013, 10:19 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / At this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show Lexus has unveiled the new GS 300h, adding up to the GS 350 and GS 450h, ramping up the model’s trim to three versions.
The newly released model G...
21 Oct 2013, 08:28 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Despite the bad weather this weekend, Toyota Racing managed to win for the first time this season at Fuji in Japan.
Having been kept in the garage after the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the No.7 TS030 of...
15 Oct 2013, 12:24 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Up! is probably the car with the biggest sense of humor in Volkswagen's range. In Britain, the tiny car's affordability is promoted on the shelf of a magazine shop, while over in Japan...
15 Oct 2013, 10:54 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Renault is pushing its French products hard into the land of Nissans. After the Lutecia hatchback, a rebadged version of the Clio, comes the Lutecia RS, which is as you'd expect the new hot hat...
13 Oct 2013, 10:00 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Nissan will introduce its Infiniti brand in Japan in order to better compete with German offerings in the country's growing luxury car market, Japanese business daily Nikkei reports.
The fir...
13 Oct 2013, 07:13 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Earlier this year, we've seen some renderings with the prototype model for the Japanese market Toyota Harrier, which is basically a different front-faced Lexus RX.
The automaker has now rele...
12 Oct 2013, 13:58 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / How to be a boss in Japan, lesson one. Forget about covering your body with incredibly painful tattoos and carrying a sword around, yakuza don’t deserve as much respect as this guy.
This To...
12 Oct 2013, 10:45 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We continue our journey into the weird and wonderful cars from the land of the rising. This is the prototype for their new Harrier SUV, which is a glorified Lexus RX. What, a Toyota is a glorified L...
11 Oct 2013, 13:00 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Toyota Aqua, or Prius c as we know it, has a very good reputation in Japan, something that reflects in the market’s monthly sales.
Small, agile and economic, the baby Prius made it to t...
11 Oct 2013, 10:40 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Data released a few days ago by the Japan Automotive Dealers Association shows that Toyota has not one but two of the best sold cars in the country. The Aqua hatchback is the best sold car with 26,5...