Well, that’s impressive. Wireless mobile phone charging has been a nice dream mainly relegated to airplane magazines for the past couple years for reasons that no one really knows. Even though our phones are more advanced computers than NASA had when they went to the moon, everyone still has to ask that fundamental question every […]
Archive | March, 2014
The Unabated Strength of the 2014 Tundra: Test Drive Review
It seems as though there has existed a time-honored tradition for automakers to manufacture pick-up trucks with a very limited appeal. Often marketed and lauded for their towing capacity, these vehicles exude pure masculinity. They have built a reputation for unabated strength, yet so many are difficult to handle, feel unstable through bends, and lack […]
Full Review: The Surprisingly Fluid 2014 Toyota Highlander
We were sitting in the Octagon last Wednesday–that’s what we call Leith Toyota’s showroom–looking out the window, wondering when it would start snowing. The Octagon feels more like a cafe. Its unique shape puts you in the midst of all the display cars, and there are a number of tables scattered throughout the room. The […]
Might Toyota’s FT-1 Be the New Supra?
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 […]
Toyota Roadster Combines MR2 and Prius in a Single Design
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 […]