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Toyota sales on the rise again

Matt Brogan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:49:49 +0000

Toyota experienced its first year-on-year sales increase for 15 months in October, pushing up five per cent for a total of 640,000 global sales. China was the company’s biggest growth market with sales up 45 per cent, while the results were also positive in Toyota’s home nation with a 15 per cent rise in Japan. Toyota’s largest [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toyota sales on the rise again

Prius could outsell Camry says US Toyota boss

Matt Brogan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:53:55 +0000

US President of Toyota Motor Sales, Mr Jim Lentz, has said during an interview this week that he believes the company’s Prius hybrid model could beat long-time favourite Camry sedan as the company’s best selling product in the United States. “I think long-term, Prius as a nameplate could even outsell Camry as a nameplate, into this [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Prius could outsell Camry says US Toyota boss

Toybaru Sports Coupe update

Matt Brogan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:46:53 +0000

Three weeks ago CarAdvice showed you renderings of what Subaru’s version of the FT-86 “Toybaru” sports car may look like, and the information about the car continues to trickle slowly out of Japan. The latest news is that the Subaru will be around 50hp (37kW) more powerful than the FT-86, which could see the naturally-aspirated 2.0-litre [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toybaru Sports Coupe update

Toyota Prius hybrid family on the way

Matt Brogan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:19:28 +0000

As first reported by CarAdvice more than 12 months ago, Toyota is set to create a Prius hybrid family when it introduces a crossover or wagon model in around 12 months time, according to a report in Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper. The new car could be the first high-volume vehicle to use a lithium-ion battery, which [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toyota Prius hybrid family on the way

Toyota Camry Hybrid to save 1100 litres of fuel per year

Matt Brogan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:02:23 +0000

The upcoming Australian made Toyota Camry Hybrid will save approximately 1100 litres of fuel in a year of city driving compared to locally made six-cylinder rivals. Corporate manager of product planning, Mr Peter Evans, said Hybrid Camry’s fuel consumption and emissions would rival small and compact cars.   The fuel savings during 20,000km of city driving will [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toyota Camry Hybrid to save 1100 litres of fuel per year

Toyota still world’s number one manufacturer

Matt Brogan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:53:57 +0000

It seems a report published by IHS Global Insight last Thursday was a little premature, with official numbers today showing Toyota is still ahead of Volkswagen in sales volume. Volkswagen’s third-quarter financial results revealed the manufacturer produced 4.4 million vehicles during the first nine months of the year – trumping Toyota’s 4.2 million units. However, VW’s [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toyota still world’s number one manufacturer

Toyota may replace accelerator pedals following US floor mat recall

Matt Brogan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:43:21 +0000

Following Toyota’s largest-ever recall of some 3.8 million vehicles, over the potential for a loose floor mat to force down the accelerator causing unintended acceleration, Toyota may soon fix or replace the accelerator pedals on up to 4 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles in the US. US safety body the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toyota may replace accelerator pedals following US floor mat recall

Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry & Technology picture tour

Matt Brogan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:40:44 +0000

By Matt Brogan. Nishiku, Japan. As we finish our coverage from Japan this week, we take a brief picture tour of the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology (TCM). Established jointly by the 13 companies that make up the Toyota Group, on the site of the company’s original Spinning and Weaving factory, TCM houses a wide [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry & Technology picture tour

Volkswagen tops Toyota as world’s largest vehicle producer

Matt Brogan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:02:54 +0000

Figures from automotive industry analyst IHS Global Insight show that Volkswagen has overtaken Toyota as the world’s largest vehicle producer for the first three-quarters of 2009. VW made 4.4 million vehicles from January to September compared to the 4.2 million tallied in Toyota’s recent financial report. However, Toyota today claimed that it has actually produced 4.9 million [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Volkswagen tops Toyota as world’s largest vehicle producer

New Toyota Prado to go on sale later this month

Matt Brogan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:09:11 +0000

Toyota’s new Prado, due to go on sale later this month, is being claimed as a “tougher, yet more refined” vehicle than the one it replaces. The new Prado is also said to be more capable in all driving conditions while also being more comfortable, thanks to the addition of new premium features. With state-of-the-art driver-assist technologies, [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

New Toyota Prado to go on sale later this month

Toyota Automobile Museum – picture tour

Matt Brogan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:37:52 +0000

by Matt Brogan. Nagakute, Japan. The Toyota Automobile Museum is just one of the two museums we’ll be presenting over the coming weeks as we wrap up our coverage from Japan. TAM is located in Nagakute – just outside of Nagoya, Japan – and features a wide variety of cars not just from Toyota, but from a [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toyota Automobile Museum – picture tour

Toyota Camry Review & Road Test

Paul Maric — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:04:03 +0000

The latest iteration of one of Toyota’s best selling appliances. Model Tested: 2009 Toyota Camry Ateva; 2.4-litre, four-cylinder, petrol; five-speed automatic; sedan – $32,490 Interior space; suspension (ride); standard features Fuel consumption; handling CarAdvice Rating: Whitegoods on wheels, uninspiring, old man’s car and boring. These are all terms that have become synonymous with the Toyota Camry. For years Toyota [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toyota Camry Review & Road Test

Toyota Corolla & Hilux top strong October sales list

Matt Brogan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:23:03 +0000

In a positive move for Australian car sales, motorists bought more cars and trucks in October than for the same month last year – the first time in 16 months the industry has seen a year-on-year increase in monthly sales. Toyota Australia senior executive director sales and marketing, Mr David Buttner, welcomed the October-on-October increase for [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toyota Corolla & Hilux top strong October sales list

Toyota’s US floor mat recall continues

Matt Brogan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:06:56 +0000

Toyota has defended itself against claims that it was misleading about its floor mat-related unintended acceleration problem which may affect up to 3.8 million vehicles. On Monday, Toyota claimed that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) concluded that “no defect exists in vehicles in which the driver’s floor mat is compatible with the vehicle and [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toyota’s US floor mat recall continues

Toyota to withdraw from F1

Matt Brogan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:33:55 +0000

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has announced over night that it plans to withdraw from the FIA Formula One World Championship (F1) at the end of the 2009 season. TMC, which had viewed its participation in F1 as contributing to the prosperity of automotive culture, remained dedicated to competing at the pinnacle of motor sports, even in [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toyota to withdraw from F1

Toyota iQ Review

Matt Brogan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:10:17 +0000

If this is where small cars are headed, consider me a convert. Model Tested: 2009 Toyota iQ3; 1.3-litre, four-cylinder, petrol; CVT automatic; three-door hatch – $21,560* By Matt Brogan. Tokyo, Japan. This may be the shortest first steer of the smallest car I’ve yet driven, but my 20 minutes behind the wheel was enough to tell me that if [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toyota iQ Review

Toyota 2000 GT

Anthony Crawford — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:54:06 +0000

If you or your father has one of those James Bond box sets, and you‘ve watched all the old Bond movies, then you may have caught a glimpse of one of the rarest cars Toyota ever built, the 2000 GT in the movie You only live twice. The world got its first look at the [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toyota 2000 GT

Toyota first with Australian made hybrid

Matt Brogan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:35:47 +0000

Toyota Australia is set to make history in just over three months when it launches the first hybrid car to be built in this country – Hybrid Camry. A limited number of pre-production cars have already been tested on public roads and closed tracks with insiders saying the Hybrid Camry out performers the standard car in [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toyota first with Australian made hybrid

Toyota’s Tsutsumi Plant – tour a green role model

Matt Brogan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:36:00 +0000

By Matt Brogan. Aichi, Japan. Every fifty-seven seconds a new Prius rolls off the line here at Toyota’s Tsutsumi production plant in Aichi, Toyota City. But this plant is more than a highly-automated car building machine, Tsutsumi is a prototypical plant of the Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) used for promoting some of the company’s many sustainable initiatives. Tsutsumi, [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toyota’s Tsutsumi Plant – tour a green role model

Toyota & Lexus – Tokyo Motorshow Video

Alborz Fallah — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:32:11 +0000

Following on from our coverage of this year’s Tokyo Motorshow, we thought we’d bring you some video footage from the Toyota & Lexus stands. You’ll see the FT-86, Lexus LF-A and a whole lot more. Enjoy: Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site. Toyota & Lexus – Tokyo Motorshow Video

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Toyota & Lexus – Tokyo Motorshow Video