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Toyota has reversed a loss through the first half of last year into a significant increase in income for the first half of 2012. The company posted a $5.8 billion (€4.5 billion) increase in net income for the first half of fiscal year 2012. I...

January sales up 21.6% and new Pickup planned for Chicago

Toyota is expecting to have a very good year in the United States in 2013. Sales are up, and it has new cars planned.  Toyota says that January sales jumped 21.6% to 157,725 cars. Of those, 141,514 cars were Toyotas, which represented a 2...

When Toyota launched the Prius in Japan in 1997, no one expected that it would be the world's third best-selling car today. Granted, that is among all of the Prius models including the Prius c and Prius v. The Prius models have sold 247,2...

Ten years after its launch, the Toyota Prius seems to have finally convinced European drivers. After a slow start the full hybrid has just reached cumulative sales of 200,000 units, two years after it reached the milestone of 100,000 units (May 2008)...

Renewed model arrives in January 2015

Toyota is launching for the European market an updated version of the Prius+. The hybrid seven-seater has been on sale in Europe since 2012 and now receives a new front and rear design and new safety systems. Regarding the design Toyota resha...

Toyota completed its 200 millionth vehicle in June. It took the company 76 years and 11 months to reach the goal.  Toyota's first vehicle was the Model G1 truck that went into production in August 1935 when the company was still known...

The Toyota TS030 performed well in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but not great. It was still easy to be unsure of the car, its performance and drivers. Today at the Six Hours of Sebring the single car Toyota team proved itself definitively that the tea...

The original car was an immediate success

In many ways the modern car-based crossover can be traced back directly to Toyota RAV-Four concept shown as a design study at the Tokyo Motor Show in 1989. The production RAV4 that was first shown at the 1994 Geneva Motor Show and went on sale in ...

Toyota has presented at the Los Angeles Auto Show its second-generation Toyota RAV4 EV that the brand expects to reach the markets in 2012. Developed with the collaboration of Tesla the new RAV4 EV will have a total of 35 vehicles built for a demonst...

There is a new exterior color and interior colors

Despite introducing it last year, Toyota already has a few upgrades ready for the RAV4 in Europe. Its all-wheel drive system is now available with the 2.0-liter D-4D turbodiesel, and there are new color, trim and equipment options. For 2014, t...