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Toyota FT-4X Concept First Look

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

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2018 Toyota Sienna First Look

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

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2017 Toyota Avalon

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

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2017 Toyota Tacoma TRD Off-Road Review – Toy in Waiting

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.

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2017 Toyota 86 GT Review

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

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2016 TOYOTA TUNDRA TRD PRO REVIEW

The TRD Pro adds two inches of lift up front over the base model Tundra. My tester’s Double Cab configuration meant this truck had a longer bed, whereas the Crew Max offers extra room in the back seat. It was clad in a Quicksand paint scheme, a color that harkens back to the venerable FJ40’s Dune Beige.

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