Toyota recently announced a suite of new safety technologies that it plans to implement in its vehicles. Automatic braking, auto-adjusting headlamps, see-through parking cameras, vehicle-to-vehicle communication and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication are all on the list. Chief Safety Technology Officer Moritaka Yoshida said that these systems surpass what is currently available on the most high-end luxury vehicles. […]
The future is broad for Toyota. As one of the world’s dominant automakers in profits and volume, Toyota has both the disincentive and means to innovate in cars. We say disincentive because if the boat is fine, why rock it? Toyota did a bit of rocking when they partnered with Tesla to explore electric drive […]
Hold on, Earl! We’ve got a live one! The special-edition FR-S Release Series 1.0 that Scion just released at the New York International Auto Show aims to inject the muscled-out looks of racers like the Jaguar XKR-S GT with its flared front grille and more aggressively-curved fenders into the current FR-S. To wit, the 1.0 […]
Ever since the FT-1 concept was debuted earlier this year at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, many of the world’s automotive media have been taken with the roadster that resembles the Tim Burton-era Batmobile. We wrote about it when it came out, of course, for the same reason that it dominated most […]
For our sake, we are glad when disparate design influences in a single vehicle come to fruition. If F. Scott Fitzgerald was right that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time,” it could be that the sign of a first-rate car is […]
