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Despite its insufferable commercials in the US, the Prius C is a certified hit both in America and Japan, and Toyota is struggling to keep up with demand.  As we reported earlier, Toyota sold nearly 10,000 Prius Cs before it had been on s...

Toyota has relased a teaser video showing lots of individual elements of the FT-86 ahead of the car's debut at the Tokyo Auto Show on November 30.  The one minute video starts by showing children playing for automotive toys, then tran...

Toyota left rallying in 1999 to pursue sports car racing and Formula 1. Its Corolla WRC went out with a bang by winning the manufacturers championship that year. At the Rallye Deutschland, Toyota will make its first tentative steps back into rally...

The Toyota TS030 has taken its first ever pole position for the 6 Hours of Sao Paulo. The car qualified with a 1:22:383 lap time. It was 0.784 seconds faster than the Audi R18 Ultra and 0.969 seconds faster than the Audi R18 E-tron Quattro. T...

It will be based on the LF-LC concept

Toyota engineer Haruhiko Tanahashi says that the company is in the early stages of prepping a successor to the LFA. The new car will be based on the LF-LC concept, if it goes into production “I have the expectation that car will be launc...

Toyota has released an image teasing the FT-86 II concept that the Japanese brand will be premiering at the 2011 edition of the Geneva Motor Show, taking place in March. The FT-86 II concept is the evolution of a previous Toyota concept car presente...

Sedan concept has honeycomb grill and carbon fiber

Toyota has released a video teasing its Furia Concept for the North American International Auto Show on January 14. It calls the car an "exciting new sedan concept." Toyota is not revealing anything about the car, and the video gives...

It has over 400hp of hybrid power

Toyota announced its Hybrid-R concept last week that would share technology with the TS030 racecar. Today, Toyota has released the first teaser image of the car and announced that it will have more than 400hp. It also says that it will be based on...

The company believes this technology will help promote the use of electrified vehicles

Toyota has announced that it will begin verification testing of its newly developed wireless battery charging system for vehicles with an electrified powertrain, such as plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles in Japan. The system is able to charge ...

The test will run through March 2014

Electric vehicles have been accepted more readily in Japan than in Europe or the US. The government has been pushing automakers to experiment with zero-emissions mobility. Honda just began testing a small, electric commuter car, and now Toyota is ...