Toyota is about to be richly rewarded for what seems, in retrospect, to be a corporate no-brainer: combining its expertise in hybrid drivetrains with buyers’ insatiable appetite for small crossover SUVs. The ★★★ 2016 Toyota RAV4 Limited AWD hybrid fills the gap Ford created when it bewilderingly stopped building the popular hybrid version of its
Come August, Toyota will cease production of the retro FJ Cruiser off-roader after a decade of production. Toyota put the FJ Cruiser into production in 2006 as a modern incarnation of the legendary FJ40 Land Cruiser. After initial excitement, sales began tapering off until the Japanese automaker withdrew the FJ Cruiser from the North American
The prototype was conceived and developed by Toyota Australia’s Product Design team and hand-built in Japan under the direction of the global sports car division. The Shooting Brake concept, which adds a more practical hatch styling to the rear of the sporty coupe, has been revealed to the world in Sydney by the Toyota GT86
BEND, Oregon — Kendall Toyota of Bend is giving Oregon high school seniors a chance to win one of 10 available $1,000 scholarships, with one of them driving away in a new 2016 Toyota Corolla, in its Drive for Education contest. Students may enter by May 1 if they have an overall grade point average
Ahead of the Beijing Auto Show this week, Toyota announced that it will create an electric plug-in hybrid (PHEV) version of the Corolla for the Chinese market. While the automaker’s announcement appears to limit the vehicle’s availability to China for now, it does open the door for a possible global launch of a PHEV version of
As the world’s first mass-produced petrol-electric hybrid, the Prius’s place in history has always been assured. But few would have predicted the cultural and political impact it has made on the world – particularly in the US. Having owners as varied as Hollywood liberals and former CIA chiefs, the Prius has become much less a
Here’s another recently launched model in Indonesia, the 2016 Toyota Rush TRD Sportivo 7. Seen here at the 2016 Indonesia International Motor Show (IIMS) is the “Sportivo Ultimo” version of Toyota’s entry SUV. The two new variants fit in seven seats in three rows, which could possibly be PT Toyota-Astra Motor’s response to the new
Cars these days are constructed out of all kinds of flashy and excitingly named materials. But as nice as carbon fibre reinforced plastic and carbotanium is, Toyota has decided to kick it old school for the upcoming Milano Design Week. For the fashion event, it’s decided to make a two-seat roadster called Setsuna out of
It’s been a long time since the largest automaker in the world, also the biggest company in Japan, had introduced the first RAV4 compact SUV – if it were a human the model would have the legal age to go into a bar all around the world. It may have become ubiquitous by now but
Automotive head-up displays already offer a modicum of augmented reality by showing info like speed and navigation directions on the windshield, but Toyota now has a patent that could make the tech even more useful. The Japanese automaker has a way to move the image dynamically to keep drivers better informed about the road ahead.