If you’ve been craving a Toyota with more performance, today is a good day for you. One of the tidbits of news still trickling out from the auto show in Detroit last month is that Toyota is considering expanding the TRD lineup. Right now the Toyota Racing Development editions apply solely to our trucks. However, […]
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Toyota Gets Serious With 2016 Tacoma at Detroit Auto Show
Why is it called a Taco? Toyota unveiled this week a revamped version of their Tacoma pickup for 2016 at the Detroit Auto Show. Almost two in three compact pickups sold last year in the U.S. was a Tacoma, so it’s apparent why Toyota wants to keep the people happy. What isn’t as clear is […]
Toyota Readying High-Tech Safety Systems For Mass-Market
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. […]
A Survey of Toyota’s Innovative Plans For the Next 10 Years
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 […]
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 […]