Toyota News

Toyota has unveiled a radically-designed Avalon sedan at the 2012 New York Auto Show this week and confirmed that the car will hit showrooms late this year as a 2013 model. The new Avalon has been designed from the ground up to be significantly different than the one it replaces, and is the result...

Toyota will roll out a refreshed version of its Venza crossover at this week's New York Auto Show

The Toyota GT 86, Subaru BRZ, and Scion FR-S triplets are some of the most anticipated new sports cars to come along in years. Not because of their tremendous performance, or even their exquisite styling, but because of their simplicity, focus, and because they're Toyotas (or Subarus, depending on...

Late last year BMW and Toyota signed a memorandum of understanding concerning a mid-to-long-term collaboration on next-generation environment-friendly technologies, which covered everything from the joint development of electric car technologies to the sharing of engines. Today, the two automakers...

Last December we brought you the unlikely news that the Toyota Prius had been approved for competition in Japan’s Super GT series. The Prius was named as a replacement for the Toyota Corolla Axio, and was set to run in the GT300 class, which restricts output to 300 horsepower. If you get the...

Toyota has announced it will be refreshing the Venza crossover for the 2013 model year. The refreshed CUV will be fully revealed next month at the New York Auto Show. While the teaser shows us merely the headlight, we can already see that the updated styling closely mimics that of the new Camry and...

Giving hints at how the next Prius might look--and the technology it might incorporate--Toyota's FT-Bh concept makes its debut at the Geneva Motor Show. Sitting in the B-segment, similar in size to the Yaris, the FT-Bh takes Toyota's well-proven hybrid technology to a new level, with efficiency...

With the Mazda MX-5 Miata sitting more or less alone at the affordable end of the rear-drive, two-seat roadster market, a convertible version of the Toyota GT 86/Scion FR-S/Subaru BRZ is an attractive proposition--and it may be on the table. According to Germany's AutoBild, Toyota's lead developer...

Toyota has released more details and images of a new concept car it plans to unveil at next month’s 2012 Geneva Motor Show. The concept, which goes by the name FT-Bh, is a preview of a production-destined model. Its name is an acronym for Future Toyota B-segment hybrid, and according to its...

Toyota will show its 2013 Land Cruiser at the upcoming Chicago Auto Show, and inventory should hit dealers by month end.

The stunning LF-LC and ultra-efficient Prius C aren’t the only new hybrids Toyota has brought to the 2012 Detroit Auto Show. Making its debut today on the automaker's Detroit stand is an advanced new plug-in hybrid concept dubbed the NS4, a vehicle that signifies Toyota’s vision for...

After skipping the 2012 model year Toyota has brought out an updated version of its Land Cruiser SUV for 2013, packing it with more standard features to justify it’s $70k-plus starting price, as well as revising the styling just a little. Thankfully, the big SUV still rides on a capable...

Toyota will show a new plug-in hybrid concept called the NS4 at the Detroit Auto Show, and the concept is said to take Toyota in a sportier design direction.

Sales of the new 2012 Toyota Prius C have commenced in Japan, where the vehicle goes by the name Aqua and is offered with a range of performance modifications from TRD and Modellista. TRD, as many readers may already know, is Toyota’s official in-house tuner and is responsible for much of the...

A replacement for Toyota's flagship sports car, the Supra, is under development and will use a hybrid drivetrain good for an estimated 400 horsepower.

Talk of a Toyota Supra successor has been around ever since the legendary Japanese sports car went out of production in the early part of the last decade. Things really heated up when Toyota unveiled an advanced sports car concept with similar proportions to the Supra at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show...

Back in March we took a look at some of the best technology and design at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, and as the press days for the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show draw to a close we look at some of the highlights from Japan. Tokyo is where all the big Japanese manufacturers roll out their blue-sky ideas and...

Toyota is reportedly well on its way to developing a supercharged version of its GT 86 sport coupe.

The first video of the new Toyota GT 86 debuts.

As we reported just a few days ago, BMW and Toyota will be working more closely in the future over the development of green technology. This week at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show the two auto giants signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) concerning a mid-to-long-term collaboration on...