Toyota F1 team selling serious go-fast bits

The race merchandise kiosk just got a whole lot more exciting with Toyota’s Formula One team set to offer high-tech parts from its past racing cars alongside the familiar caps, shirts and key rings.

Almost everything will be available for the public to buy from real carbon fibre wings to brake callipers and alloy wheels – [...]

What’s Your Favourite Car?

I don’t think a single day has gone by that someone hasn’t asked me, “out of all the cars you’ve driven, what is your favourite car?” Oh no, not this question, not again. I usually answer; “Have you got five hours to spare? ‘Cause that’s how long it will take to respond!”.

- Alborz Fallah [...]

Mitsubishi Evolution X King Of The Mountain

Mitsubishi Evolution X King Of The Mountain – Mt Nebo & Mt Glorious

- Words by Alborz Fallah Photography by Tristan Schoonens

For those of you that have settled into the reality that Australia has no real driving roads, I am here to shatter your illusion.

Toyota Australia axes TRD brand

Toyota Australia has pulled the plug on its TRD performance brand, citing the current global financial crisis as the determining factor.

Just 888 TRD vehicles have been delivered since the brand was established in Australia, with the last model set to roll off the production line on March 31, 2009.

TRD Aurion to race at Indy

Toyota will race debut the first of four TRD Aurion Aussie Racing Cars in next weekend’s Nikon Indy 300 race on the streets of Surfer’s Paradise, Queensland.

The exciting Aussie Racing Cars compete nationally at V8 Supercar events, as well as the Indy 300 and the Australian Grand Prix with Toyota is the first manufacturer to [...]

Toyota HiLux WorkMate model upgrade

Already leading the race in new vehicle sales year-to-date, Toyota is now rolling out the new member of the HiLux family, the WorkMate, for the first time with automatic transmission. The new WorkMate single cab and double cab automatic models take the HiLux 4×2 range to 16 models and will no doubt strengthen Toyota’s [...]

CarAdvice does the Deni Ute Muster

This weekend saw Deniliquin, situated in the Southern Riverina region of NSW, host the annual “Play on the Plains Festival & World Record Ute Muster”.
What is perhaps the most unique and quintessentially Australian event on the CarAdvice calendar, we couldn’t turn up in anything less than one of Australia’s finest.
 
-by Matt Brogan
Now given this was [...]

Toyota gets tough on counterfeit parts

Toyota Australia has sent a warning to all repair workshops across the country warning that selling and fitting counterfeit parts is putting their businesses at risk.

Evidence suggests some workshops have been illegally importing counterfeit parts (these differ from non-genuine parts as they are branded with the Toyota logo) which can be sourced at fraction of [...]

Toyota reports all-time record sales

Toyota has broken an all-time industry record this month, becoming the first car company in Australia to sell in excess of 25,000 vehicles in a single month.

Sales figures released today reveal that Toyota sold more than 25,600 cars for the month of June, breaking its own record of 24,539 which it set 12 months ago.

2008 TRD HiLux 4000SL Review

2008 TRD HiLux 4000SL Review & Road Test

The all new TRD HiLux… a performance utility it ain’t…
Model Tested:

2008 TRD HiLux 4000SL – $64,990 (RRP)

Appeal, desirability, practicality.
Performance, handling, noise, interior refinement, stereo.

CarAdvice Rating:
- words Alborz Fallah/ Photography Anthony Crawford
The TRD HiLux has been one of those reviews that I have procrastinated on [...]

TRD Hilux 4000SL vs. LS3 HSV Maloo R8 Review

2008 TRD Hilux 4000SL vs. LS3 HSV Maloo R8 Review & Road Test

Models tested:

2008 TRD Hilux 4000SL 4.0 litre Supercharged V6 petrol auto – $64,990 (RRP)
2008 HSV Maloo R8 6.2 litre LS3 V8 petrol six speed manual – $61,550 (RRP)

- Review by Matt Brogan & Paul Maric. Photographs by Matt Brogan.
When we decided to [...]

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