Toyota Camry Hybrid more details revealed

Arguably Toyota’s soon-to-be most important car in the Australian market, the Hybrid Camry is on its way and just a few minutes ago Toyota Australia released the first picture of the car’s interior.

Although the single picture is just of the instrument panel, we can clearly see the focus and purpose of hybrid Camry is on [...]

Toyota Prius Review & Road Test

Like all that is more than skin deep, so are the changes found in new Prius
Model Tested:

2009 Toyota ZVW30 Prius i-Tech; 1.8-litre four-cylinder, petrol-electric hybrid; CVT, five-door hatch – $53,500*

Options:

Metallic Paint $350 (Fitted – Silver Pearl)

Improved dynamics, steering and brakes; intuitive features; better performance
Rear vision through split window; positioning of some [...]

Lexus LF-CH revealed ahead of Frankfurt

Lexus has given a first glimpse of just what its compact entry into the premium hybrid market will look like when it is released at the Frankfurt Motor Show later this month.

The premium Toyota brand says the LF-CH, you can bet that won’t be its final name, will offer Lexus Hybrid Drive in a practical [...]

Toyota Hybrid Camry begins pilot build

Toyota today moved a step closer to local production of the Hybrid Camry that it will introduce to the Australian market in February next year with the commencement of the pilot build program.

It has also indicated that it hopes the program, which is a mid-life move for the current model, will lead to the next [...]

Toyota Prius – First Steer

Driving the pin-up car of the green motoring movement, the Toyota Prius, has become even more fuel efficient but also a lot more dynamic following our first, although limited, real world experience of the Generation Three vehicle.

By David Twomey
With a price of $39,900 for the base model, that’s $90 less than the original introduction price [...]

New Toyota Prius production nears full capacity

A new Toyota Prius is put together in 66 seconds on Line No 1 and in 57 seconds on Line No 2 of Toyota’s Tsutsumi plan in Japan, even at that rate, it’s still not enough.
Toyota says that its Japanese factories making the third-generation Prius are reaching full capacity just to fulfil the orders for [...]

New Toyota Prius First Look

“More power, more efficient and even greener, the third generation Prius has definitely got our attention”
Call me ignorant or uninformed but I’ve never heard of a five-seat production car with a co-efficient of drag as low as 0.25.

2010 Toyota Prius US pricing announced

The redesigned 2010 Toyota Prius hybrid goes on sale in the US from late May with Toyota today announcing pricing will begin at US$22,750 – which in an ideal world would mean an Australian price tag of $32,560.

A stripped-down base model version will join the line-up late this year for just US$21,750 (A$31,130).
The third-generation Prius [...]

Toyota claims Prius will be Australia’s greenest car

Toyota has stretched the latest fuel efficiency tests of its new Prius a little to claim, “It’s official. The new-generation Prius will be Australia’s greenest car when it is launched in July this year.”.

The claim is based on figures released by Toyota Europe were local testing has shown that the third-generation Prius will emit just [...]

2009 Toyota Prius coming to Melbourne Motor Show

We are set to get our first look at the new Toyota Prius at the Melbourne International Motor Show this month with  Australia becoming the second country to get an official glimpse of the new hybrid

The third generation hybrid will have more competition than ever, not only from long-time rival Honda but from a whole [...]