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Honda, you used to be one of my favorite automakers in the world. In a world of boring Toyotas, you were an exciting alternative. But somewhere in the last decade you forgot all of that.
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First Look: 2014 Toyota Tundra
At the unveiling of the redesigned 2014 Toyota Tundra, group vice president and general manager Bill Fay began his remarks by highlighting the full-size truck market’s shift toward crew-cab (4-door) models and premium equipment offerings. This is why the biggest Tundra news is not just the styling, inside and out, but the addition of two top-tier [...]
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Aston Martin for Sale
We don’t mean an Aston Martin, but the famed English automaker. Price? About $800 million.
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Video: Watch a Toyota Tundra tow the space shuttle Endeavour
There are publicity stunts, and then there’s using a Toyota Tundra to tow the 145-ton Space Shuttle Endeavour across interstate 405 in Los Angeles. That’s exactly what happened Saturday night when Toyota lent a hand pulling the retired spacecraft over a bridge en route to the California Science Center. As it turned out, the Manchester Boulevard Bridge couldn’t stand up to the [...]
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2013 Ford C-MAX Hybrid Driven
For so many people today the car has become an appliance with the sole job of getting from A to B effectively and efficiently. This point is made clearest when you consider that Toyota has sold over one million Priuses. The Prius is a horrible car in all respects except one – fuel economy. The [...]
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Report: Toyota unveils facelift for JDM 2013 Mark X, now THIS is a Toyota
It’s been a long-standing tradition for American auto enthusiasts to drool over the European Domestic Market and Japanese Domestic Market vehicles and how many of them are much better and cleverly equipped than the cars we get stateside. It makes us feel like we’ve been sold short of what could be amazing cars. And here’s one of [...]
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COTD: Nationality And The Toyota Celica Edition
The second generation Toyota Celica was the first car designed in California’s groundbreaking Calty Design Research Incorporated facility. Though it was built in Japan, is the 1978 Celica a Californian car? This might be big of a heavy discussion for Monday afternoon, and if it is, please continue to drool at the above picture of [...]
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Official: Toyota builds 200 million vehicles after 77 years in business
Two hundred million of anything is a lot, and the point here is that Toyota has built a lot of cars. The automaker announced this week that sometime in June its 200,000,000th vehicle rolled off the assembly line. Toyota’s feat took the company 76 years and 11 months.
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Get a New Set of Underwear: Toyota FT-86 Concept
Holy hell. We remember hearing a few whispers about the Toyobaru collaboration getting fast tracked, but no one expected to see something this quick. Toyota just announced an all-new concept will take a bow at this year’s Tokyo Motor Show and will be powered by a 2.0-liter boxer four. Sounds like Pleiades DNA to me. [...]
Toyota Supra Concept Headed To Tokyo
While Honda seems bound and determined to drill the cool out of the CR-Z by only offering it with a CVT, word has popped up Toyota may have something tasty for the Tokyo Motor Show. No we’re not talking about the production Lexus LF-A or the Subaru-partnered 086A. This is something all new – the [...]
Rumor Mongering: 086A Rendering
Man, leave for two weeks and suddenly long-dead concepts come back from the grave. You remember the 086A, right? It’s the rear-wheel drive collaboration worked up by Toyota and Subaru that got back-burnered when the global economy went dumpster diving. Well, dry your eyes Pleiades fans. It looks like a rendering of the car has [...]
Toyota Builds Prettiest Prius of All
And it’s a plug-in. The company plans to unleash 500 of these dove and daisy-slathered cars on the world for global testing. Around 200 are staying home for the trials, with the rest split equally between the U.S. and European market. So what does that fancy pink and purple paint scheme win you? Aside from [...]
Ultimate Swag: Toyota Selling F1 Bits
Get out your wallet, Fiends. Word on the Web is Toyota’s selling off bits of its race rigs. Everything from lightweight rims to the engine cover with under-floor and rear wing. You can seven snap up brake discs and suspension wishbones for pretty damn cheap. Is Toyota desperately trying to raise cash for its race [...]
Picture of the Day: Toyota 2000GT
Lexus just let it slip its new bad ass LF-A will boast a blistering 550 horsepower and break the 200 mph top speed barrier. Say g’damn. To honor this amount of awesome, I give you some classic Japanese tin, tearing it up the way it should. Fiendish.
Picture of the Day: Mugen Insight
Honda scored itself a sizeable victory in the hybrid fight last month by securing the title of best-selling car in Japan with the Insight. Of course, Toyota’s gearing up to take it to Honda with the 2010 Prius. All we care about is whether or not a Hybrid can really be built to be as [...]
Bahrain GP Recap
After Brawn’s loss in China, it was back to normal in Bahrain. Jenson Button won his third victory this year above Sebastien Vettel’s Red Bull. Teammate Rubens Barrichello didn’t look quite as good but still managed to finish fifth overall in front of Kimi Raikonnen’s Ferrari. Raikonnen’s finish, by the way, marked the first time [...]