1000 hp Supras aren’t exactly hard to come by these days, but check out the size of that turbo! 1000+ Hp Turbo Nitrous Supra...
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found about 17 hours ago by Zach Bowman on
Autoblog
The company plans to fix the issue by installing orange bulbs in the vehicles instead of the white ones that came from the factory. Daihatsu is owned by Toyota, and the company produces a number of small vehicles for the manufacturing giant. While...
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found about 25 hours ago by Import RPM on
Import RPM
The Aston Martin Cygnet is a bit of an anomaly, and its very existence may be just a creative way to boost Aston’s fleet-wide fuel economy numbers. Essentially a re-badged Toyota iQ, the Cygnet wasn’t initially destined for the U.S. market,...
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found about 25 hours ago by Chris Shunk on
Autoblog
Even with the impending launch of the Volt later in the Fall, the Chevrolet Cruze may be the biggest vehicle General Motors will launch in the U.S. this year. The reason is money. The Cruze should make some of it, while the Volt and its pricey...
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Toyota has been selling many hybrids since they introduced the Toyota Coaster Hybrid EV minibus in 1979. A few months later, they stared mass-production of the Prius, and it’s been a runaway hit. In Japan, the Prius is leading the charts. The...
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The brainchild of Spanish designer Jorge Marti Vidal, Toyota MOB concept is a strikingly beautiful car with many of its parts taking inspiration from nature. The unusual bodywork is inspired by the idea of the Mobius strip and the shape of the...
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August sales, for the most part, are hurting from a year ago. To be precise, initial data showed sales came in at 997,574, down 21 percent from a year earlier, according to Autonews. After the cash-for-clunkers sales surge of '09, it was to be...
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Looking like a two-door WRX STI Sedan, Subaru's version of Toyota's rear-wheel-drive FT-86 has been caught in Death Valley. The Subaru version of the RWD Toyota FT-86 is rumored to be AWD and pack at least 250 horsepower from a...
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The Japanese “Big Three” automakers all saw significant sales drops in August, thanks to similarly large increases in August 2009 sales spurred by Cash For Clunkers. Toyota/Lexus/Scion sales fell 34 percent, as Camry and Corolla crashed down...
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2011 Chevrolet Cruze General Motors is asking 3,000 Chevrolet dealers to prepare for the launch of the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze by buying competitor vehicles and keeping them on their lots for test-drive comparisons. The 2011 Cruze will go on sale later...
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Cash for Clunkers continues to cast a long shadow: Big automakers had what looks to be a bad month, but last year the popular government program dramatically boosted the sales of many models, including the Toyota Camry, Honda Civic, Honda CR-V and...
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found 2 days ago by Arman Barari on
Motorward
Toyota MPVs have always been some of the greatest in terms of quality and practicality, but they’re all shiversomely dull and boring! But now Toyota wants to liven things up a bit and enter a segment dominated by the Europeans. Toyota says the...
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The Toyota Corolla Altis has had its mid-life facelift, and the C-segment stalwart is coming soon to Malaysia, as those who read our post last week would have known. UMW Toyota is already accepting bookings, and we now know that the Altis will be...
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Automotive manufacturers have been “cleaning up” their act so to speak in terms of their high performance variants, with announcement of the discontinuation of models like the Focus ST. Fortunately for Lexus and the IS-F, this hasn’t been...
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For more than a year now, the Prius has enjoyed some hefty sales in Japan thanks to the government subsidies for hybrids. But now that the cash-for-clunkers program is coming to an end, sales of Toyota's hybrid model will most likely take a hit,...
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2011 Toyota Verso-S In 2006, Toyota stopped selling the Yaris Verso, a small minivan in Europe. Toyota will now re-enter the small minivan segment with the new Verso-S, which will make its debut at the 2010 Paris Motor Show later this month....
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Joining the new Verso-S small MPV at Toyota's 2010 Paris Motor Show stand, will be the 2011 model year versions of the iQ and Aygo city cars, both of which benefit from some minor interior revisions. For the 2011 iQ, which will be sold in the...
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found 2 days ago by Steven J. Ewing on
Autoblog
Small MPVs might not be the hottest commodities here in the United States, but these little functional wonders sell like hotcakes in other markets, especially Europe. To keep up with the growing segment, Toyota has given its Verso hatch a rather...
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2011 Toyota Highlander The redesigned 2011 Toyota Highlander has made its official world debut at the 2010 Moscow Motor Show and we have to say… Toyota is finally getting some emotion and aggressiveness back into its styling. The new 2011...
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found 3 days ago by Chris Shunk on
Autoblog
Have you seen the TV commercials for the 2011 Toyota Avalon? One particular 30-second spot sticks out. It's shot through a 1960's filter and features an old-fashioned voice over, cheesy elevator music and an airline pilot driving the big Toyota...
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Toyota is already the king of the hybrid vehicle market, largely due to the popularity of its Prius. But that market dominance hasn’t stopped the automaker from setting even loftier goals for itself. By 2015, Toyota wants to sell five million...
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Toyota has announced a new safety recall that will cover 1.13 million Corolla and Matrix vehicles over faulty soldering in ECM circuitry. Toyota - Toyota Corolla - Toyota Matrix - Makes and Models -...
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As part of Toyota Motor Corp. attempts to restore its reputation for quality after the record recalls the past year, President Akio Toyoda has opened the order books for the Lexus LFA $375,000 supercar. He also revealed that the company will soon...
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found 6 days ago by Alex Nunez on
Autoblog
My wife and I? Not minivan people. It isn't for lack of appreciation. After all, we have three kids, so we're acutely aware of the advantages gained from lots of interior space. We get our three rows in a different form factor; one that's...
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found 7 days ago by Justin Hyde on
Jalopnik
Toyota says today it will recall 1.13 million 2005-2008 model year Corollas and Matrix to fix engine computers that could fail and stall the cars. Toyota had argued it wasn't a safety problem. NHTSA didn't...
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2006 Toyota Corolla Toyota has announced that it will conduct a voluntary safety recall involving approximately 1.13 million 2005-2008 Model Year Toyota Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles sold in North America to address some Engine Control Modules...
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found 7 days ago by Arman Barari on
Motorward
We are pretty sure that Toyota will always remember 2010 as the worst year ever! They had a simply terrible time earlier this tear when they had to recall millions of vehicles around the world for some faulty pedals, and then some Lexus models...
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Another chapter in the Supra saga has been opened as “The Ultimate Supra Video” saturates the minds of enthusiasts everywhere. If you love the Supra, you will love this video. A great depiction of Supra culture, it’s is as high in quality as...
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It's official: that little snafu Toyota had a few days ago with the stalling Corollas has evolved from an Engineering Analysis to a full-blown (voluntary) recall. The world's largest automaker will recall around 1.13 million vehicles, specifically...
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Toyota is recalling nearly 1.3 million 2005-2008 Corolla and Matrix models for a faulty engine control module. Last week, we heard the government was intensifying its investigation into the defect. Toyota will begin notifying owners of the recall in...
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