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Attempts to be modern, practical and environmentally friendly

Toyota has gone back to the three-box compact designs of 60s Japanese cars for its Me.We concept, which Toyota calls its “anti-crisis” car. Toyota worked with the design studio Massaud on the design. The car will be revealed at Le Rend...

Toyota has elected Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) to be its official performance division akin to BMW M. TMG will be responsible not only for Toyota's sports car racing program at Le Mans but also developing road cars. The team has been working ...

It is still waiting on a green light for the project

Almost since the day it went on sale, there has been rumors either Toyota, Subaru or both are developing a higher performance version of the GT86. There have been rumors of a turbocharged version, larger displacement and hybrid version. While none...

Toyota nearly had a Supra successor ready in 2007 when it showed the FT-HS concept at the North American International Auto Show. Then the global market collapsed, and the concept was put on the back burner. Now it  appears that Toyota is con...

Interbrand, a brand consultancy firm headquartered in London creates the Best Global Brands list and Best Global Green Brands list. For 2012, Toyota has been named in its list as the top world green brand. Other top automotive companies were Honda...

Toyota Hybrid Racing reported today first via Twitter then via a press release that it suffered a large accident while testing at Paul Ricard on April 4. The crash damaged the team's only monocoque beyond repair, and the team will be unable to...

Very little is known about the Toyota NS4 that will be revealed at the North American International Auto Show next week. Toyota has released a single teaser image and a video that you can see below that does not tell much about the car at all. The...

General Motors and Volkswagen fighting for second

With all of the bad news from Europe that we have reported on this year, you might be surprise to know that globally auto sales will likely be over 80 million vehicles for the first time ever. Leading the pack is a resurgent Toyota followed by Gen...

Toyota has opened a 1.1-megawatt hydrogen fuel cell generator at its North American headquarters in Torrance, California. The generator will supply about half of the energy needed to power the campus' six buildings but will have zero emissions...

Toyota is planning on building hybrid versions of the iQ and Aygo by 2020, although likely before. Reportedly, Toyota is working on a new two-cylinder hybrid engine that would go into these two future cars.  This engine was first shown in...