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Toyota has presented the new Verso-S model at the 2010 Paris Motor Show, in what marks the return of the Japanese brand to the B-MPV segment, created by Toyota with the launch of the Yaris Verso in 1999. With less than 4 metres long, the Verso-S is ...

It is the company's bestselling model in Russia

Toyota will begin building the Rav4 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2016 and double production from the factory to 100,000 units a year. The factory will get a €135 million upgrade and add 800 employees to build the Rav4. The Russian-built mo...

The customer-spec car will be built for the R3 class

Toyota is heading back to rallying, just not in the WRC. Toyota Motorsports Gmbh, its European motorsport division, has announced that it will build an R3-class rally car out of the GT86, but potential buyers will have to wait a season, the car wi...

Toyota will have two new production cars and three concepts that look at the brand's future at the Tokyo Auto Show. Like the rest of the Japanese Automakers we have seen, Toyota is also focusing on electric and hybrids this year.  Toy...

In-Car Wifi is also coming quite soon

Mercedes-Benz and Nissan have both declared that they will have autonomous driving technology on sale by 2020, and Audi has also been working on autonomous tech. Toyota as put more of a focus on hybrids than on autonomous driving, but it is workin...

Project will begin in 2014 and run three years

Starting at the end of 2014, Toyota will loan 70 electric vehicles, including some of its i-Road concepts to the city of Grenoble, France, for a three-year test.  The project aims to test a self-service car sharing network for one-way, in...

Settlement will end law suits relating to unintended acceleration cases in 2009/2010

Toyota has agreed to pay a settlement of at least $1.1 billion to settle lawsuits relating to unintended acceleration cases from 2009 and 2010.  “In keeping with our core principles, we have structured this agreement in ways that wo...

The concept will be shown at the Tokyo Motor Show

Toyota announced yesterday that it would show the concept for its production hydrogen fuel cell car at the Tokyo Motor Show in November and will have it on sale for 2015 in Japan, the United States and Europe. The electric motor system will be sha...

The 1,000-person test will be in its headquarters of Toyota City

Toyota is beginning public trials of its i-Road concept near its headquarters in Toyota City, Japan. Starting in early 2014, the i-Road and Toyota COMS electric vehicles will be used on the city’s roads as personal transport to test how they...

The world championship for prototypes has not raced at Fuji Speedway since 1988, but Toyota gave Japanese fans a welcome back celebration by winning the 6 Hours of Fuji. It is the second race that the car has won in its inauggaral season.&nbs...