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Hybrid model sales up 67.5%

Toyota and Lexus sold a combined 413,043 cars from January to June in Europe, down 5.5% from the same period in 2012. However, models like the Yaris Hybrid and Auris experienced major gains in sales. While sales overall were down, some models ...

Hybrid sales are growing quickly with 47% growth

Toyota is outperforming the European market so far this year with sales up 5% in the third quarter to 216,837 cars and a 5% European market share for the first time since 2009. "Our sales performance has gone crescendo in Q3 as two key ne...

This may be the Toyota/BMW sports car collaboration

Toyota has announced a concept for the Frankfurt Motor Show that it calls the Hybrid-R. It says that the car will bring track technology to the road, and that is about all we know at the moment. However, there is a good possibility that this is th...

Auris Sales up 69%

Toyota is seeing rising hybrid sales in Europe this year, which it attributes to buyers looking for cleaner, more fuel efficient vehicles. Sales of the Auris Hybrid are up 69% in the first quarter of the year.  The sales announcement come...

Toyota Motorsports GmbH is now producing a version of its Nürburgring 24 Hours class winning GT86 for entry-level, customer racers. The TMG GT86 CS-V3 is an evolution of the car that it raced in the Nürburgring VLN series this season.&nb...

The Toyota Prius C went on sale on March 12 in the US, and it has already sold 9,821 examples, which is about three times as many cars as Nissan and Chevrolet have sold Leafs and Volts in the entire year combined.  “A number of fact...

Did anyone anticipate in 1997 that Toyota launching the Prius in Japan would be the beginning of a totally new direction for the company? Now, 15 years later, Toyota announced that it sold its 4 millionth hybrid vehicle worldwide sometime in April...

Toyota is sending a whole host of hybrids to the Geneva Motor Show. Sadly, only two of them are new.  Among the cars that we've already seen at Geneva will be the Yaris Hybrid, the diji, which had previously been called the Fun-vii, t...

With 641hp and 550lb-ft and accelerates to 60 in 3.9 seconds

Toyota's Essen Motor Show shows three impressive racecars that we have seen before - the TS030, GT86 CS-V3 and Yaris R1A - and a twin-turbocharged version of the Lexus LS tuned by Toyota Motorsport GmbH that it calls the TMG Sports 650.  ...

It believes that it is the future of the hot hatch

The Toyota Yaris Hybrid-R is Toyota’s concept for the ultimate hybrid hot hatch that combines a 300hp 1.6-liter turbocharged four-cylinder for the front wheels and three – two for the rear wheels and one between the engine and transmis...