Tag: Toyota

Toyota to get an earnings lift from strong hybrid vehicle demand

Toyota Motor is expected to get a big lift from demand for hybrids when it reports annual earnings on Wednesday, illustrating how the world’s top-selling automaker is poised to benefit as hype around battery electric vehicles cools. But the forecast record results, to be helped in part by a boost from the weak yen currency, [...]read moreToyota to get an earnings lift from strong hybrid vehicle demand

Americans Are Driving Their Cars To Death In Order To Save Money

Here at Jalopnik, we know there’s nothing wrong with keeping a beloved old beater running for mile after mile, and we regularly celebrate high mileage heroes. Now, it turns out the rest of America is catching onto this way of thinking as the savings of holding onto an old car for longer begin mounting up. [...]read moreAmericans Are Driving Their Cars To Death In Order To Save Money

Here’s Another Chance To Own The World’s Reddest Lexus LFA

Toyota’s upmarket brand Lexus has always been focused on innovative engineering concepts, though not typically in the service of speed. The pocket protector dorks at the company usually spend their efforts trying to find a way to make cars quieter or softer, but for a short time from 2010 to 2012, those engineers assembled 500 [...]read moreHere’s Another Chance To Own The World’s Reddest Lexus LFA

Import Cars More Likely To Receive Speeding Tickets Than U.S. Brands

      Photo: Mark Ralston / AFP (Getty Images)     There’s rarely ever data to back up the preconceived notions we all hold about how cars look, like how we’ve all been led to believe that police pull over red cars more often than others. However, the data paints an interesting picture when [...]read moreImport Cars More Likely To Receive Speeding Tickets Than U.S. Brands

2025 Toyota GRMN Supra caught on video

Toyota is about to up the performance of its Supra sports car in a big way. The automaker has been spotted testing a camouflaged prototype at the Nürburgring and on some of the German racetrack’s surrounding roads, and it’s thought to be for a track-focused GRMN grade. GRMN is the range-topping option for road cars [...]read more2025 Toyota GRMN Supra caught on video

PANDU UJI: Toyota Vios 1.5 G 2023 – guna platform DNGA, mampu atasi ‘Vios asli’ generasi sebelum ini?

Toyota Vios generasi keempat membuat kemunculan sulung global pada Ogos 2022, dan kemudian mendarat di Malaysia kira-kira 7 bulan selepas itu. Model generasi baharu ini menggantikan Vios generasi ketiga yang telah diperkenalkan sejak 2013, dan menerima beberapa facelift bagi membolehkan ia dijual dalam pasaran selama lebih 10 tahun. Bagi model generasi keempat ini, Toyota memanfaatkan [...]read morePANDU UJI: Toyota Vios 1.5 G 2023 – guna platform DNGA, mampu atasi ‘Vios asli’ generasi sebelum ini?

Toyota investigating retractable and moveable tow hooks

Three recent Toyota patent filings look at different ways to mount tow hooks for better crash performance. One of these filings, which was published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) April 25, 2024 (and originally filed October 19, 2022), discusses tow hooks that would extend out when in use and retract into [...]read moreToyota investigating retractable and moveable tow hooks

2025 Toyota Crown gets blacked-out Nightshade Edition

Toyota is adding the Crown sedan to its growing range of Nightshade Edition models for the 2025 model year. Rolled out across several nameplates since it made its debut for 2019 on the last-generation 4Runner, the package bundles an array of blacked-out exterior accents. Based on the Limited trim level, the Nightshade Edition adds dark [...]read more2025 Toyota Crown gets blacked-out Nightshade Edition

Toyota Highlander plant gets $1.4B to build a new EV and battery packs

A week after a CarBuzz report that Toyota planned to expand PHEV availability in the U.S. market and possibly offer an electric Toyota Highlander in the near future, Automotive News reports Toyota’s pledged $1.4 billion to the Princeton, Indiana plant that builds the current Highlander, Grand Highlander, Sienna minivan, and Lexus TX that’s the luxury [...]read moreToyota Highlander plant gets $1.4B to build a new EV and battery packs

2024 Toyota GR Supra Review: Please get the manual

Pros: It has a manual; playful and full of character; sweet engines; better-than-BMW steering and handling Cons: Two seats only; antiquated tech; it’ll be too German for some; pricey compared to Nissan Z The 2024 Toyota Supra is an excellent and entertaining two-seat sports car with a storied nameplate. If you were a Supra fan [...]read more2024 Toyota GR Supra Review: Please get the manual