The SUV craze just got a little crazier. A 2,000-hp (2,000 hp!) Toyota Land Cruiser, with former NASCAR champ Carl Edwards piloting, set a 230-mph speed record. The big fella actually went a GPS-certified and video-documented 230.02 mph. Toyota said it could have gone faster but ran out of usable space. Toyota calls this truck
In the face of fresher competition from Chrysler and a new version of the Honda Odyssey, the Toyota Sienna remains a popular choice, as Toyota’s well-earned reputation for reliability is a compelling notion for buyers of a hard-use vehicle like a minivan. There’s also the fact that Toyota has strived to keep the Sienna in
TORRANCE, Calif., May 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Land Cruiser, Toyota’s iconic go-anywhere four-wheel-drive sport-utility vehicle, has earned myriad accolades and records over the 60-plus years it’s been in production. And now, among them: the title of “World’s Fastest SUV” thanks to a record speed of over 230 mph, attained by the custom 2,000-horsepower Land Speed Cruiser.
Ever since the end of Toyota FJ production in 2014, we’ve been waiting for a new, affordable off-road-oriented SUV to continue the lineage established by the original Land Cruiser. At the New York Auto Show, Toyota’s design team offered up the FT-4X, or “Future Toyota Four-Wheel Drive,” as a potential successor. The FT-4X is a
From the outside, there’s not much to distinguish the 2018 Toyota Sienna from its predecessor. And, heck, its cabin hasn’t been radically overhauled either. Yet the 2018 Sienna includes a variety of updates under the skin intended to give the venerable minivan a fighting chance against its younger rivals. The Sienna received a new engine
The Toyota Avalon has been serving upscale accommodations since the 1995 model year. Twenty-two years and three redesigns later, the Avalon is still one of the best choices in this class, if you like your cars as comfortable as an old pair of shoes. Its optional—and segment-exclusive—hybrid powertrain sips fuel, its cabin is well-built and
A year and a half since Scion introduced the iM in the United States, little more than a year since Toyota announced the Scion brand’s discontinuation, and six months since the Scion iM began to operate as the Toyota Corolla iM, almost every Toyota Corolla buyer chooses the inferior Corolla sedan instead of this hatchback. Fortunately,
If you want a new midsize truck, you have four-and-a-half options. The geriatric but delightfully trucky Nissan Frontier, the recently reintroduced unibody Ridgeline, the insipid GM Colorado/Canyon twins, or the relatively fresh Toyota Tacoma. Each of these trucks has something to recommend it, but the midsize segment is not the dynamic space it once was.
So you say you want to understand Toyota. You want to look the company in the eye and get a sense of its soul. Without spending hours studying kaizen and poring over 2000GT imagery and learning the significance of the number 86, you want to know why Toyota is different from, say, Porsche. Allow the
I’ll declare my love for the Toyota 86 straight up. It’s been one of my favourite cars since its release about four years ago. So, to say I was excited to see what Toyota has done to it in its first major upgrade would be an understatement. To do anything to the 86 was fraught