New Toyota Prado to go on sale later this month

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, [...]

Toyota Automobile Museum – picture tour

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 [...]

Toyota Camry Review & Road Test

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 [...]

Toyota Corolla & Hilux top strong October sales list

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 [...]

Toyota’s US floor mat recall continues

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 [...]

Toyota to withdraw from F1

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 [...]

Toyota iQ Review

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 [...]

Toyota 2000 GT

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 [...]

Toyota first with Australian made hybrid

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 [...]

Toyota’s Tsutsumi Plant – tour a green role model

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, [...]

Toyota & Lexus – Tokyo Motorshow Video

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:

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