Toyota News

Electric vehicles and other alt-fuel rides are big news these days. Tech fans and green enthusiasts can't wait to get their hands on 'em, while others think that hybrids and their eco-friendly kin are part of a vast communist conspiracy. No matter where you fall on that spectrum, there are many...

Since its exciting unveil at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show, the first FT-86 concept car from Toyota and its ensuing production version has been highly anticipated. At last month’s 2011 Geneva Motor Show, Toyota revealed the latest version of the car called the FT-86 II concept, which you can read...

Toyota is currently working on a replacement for its Yaris compact car, which is expected to enter the market towards the end of the year and has been spied here for the first time in prototype form. The new hatchback will go on sale as the 2012 Toyota Yaris, both in three- and five-door trims, the...

Toyota is certainly drawing out the development of its new rear-wheel drive sports car, having first shown a concept of its future model back in 2009 and now two years later showing yet another concept of it. Of course, we’re talking about the FT-86, which made its world debut recently at the...

New technology is exciting, but like most exciting things it's also fraught with peril -- and that's doubly true for developers. Think of all the tsoris caused by the great VHS vs. Beta battles of the 1980s, or the far more recent Blu-ray vs. HD DVD war, both of which cost manufacturers billions of...

At the recent 2011 Geneva Motor Show Toyota rolled out an updated version of its FT-86 concept car, which previews a new rear-wheel drive sports coupe the Japanese auto giant is co-developing with Subaru and plans to launch next year. Dubbed the FT-86 II, the latest concept is based on the original...

Toyota is certainly drawing out the development of its new rear-wheel drive sports car, having first shown a concept of its future model back in 2009 and now two years later showing yet another concept of it. Of course, we’re talking about the FT-86, which at this week’s 2011 Geneva...

Toyota’s long-awaited rear-wheel drive sports car that it's developing together with Subaru has been confirmed for launch in 2012 and at this week’s 2011 Geneva Motor Show the Japanese auto giant has unveiled a new concept car previewing it. Dubbed the FT-86 II, the new concept is based...

What you’re looking at is the next-generation Toyota Yaris, previewed here as a concept vehicle equipped with a Hybrid Synergy Drive (HSD) system at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. The new concept confirms Toyota’s commitment to offer a hybrid option on its entire model line, including...

Hollywood is so fickle. One minute, Neve Campbell is all the rage, and the next thing you know, she's doing guest spots on Medium. (Yes, apparently it's still on.) The same rules apply to cars. Not so long ago, Priuses (or Prii) were all the rage; now, they're yesterday's news, upstaged by the...

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) yesterday released the final results from NASA's Engineering and Safety Center's ten-month study into potential electronic causes of unintended acceleration (UA) in Toyota vehicles. As the DoT's press release states: "The National Highway Traffic Safety...

The 2011 Toyota Matrix will be on display at the Chicago Auto Show this week, featuring a range of small updates and the same familiar Matrix face we've all come to know. Though it may underwhelm showgoers, the 2011 Matrix adds a new set of standard wheels and small interior redesigns for the...

There were a couple of more interesting articles the past few days involving software in cars. Early last week, Markus Waibul over on the Automaton blog and I both wrote (here and here) on the concept of "car platooning." I also noted in my post the Ford development effort involving a new crash...

There seems to be no end to Toyota’s recall woes, with the automaker this week announcing a recall of more than 1.4 million vehicles worldwide due to issues including oil leaks, faulty fuel pumps, and fuel lines. Of these 1.4 million vehicles, 245,000 include premium Lexus models sold here in...

Wait for it....wait for it. No, really, keep waiting for it. Toyota's FT-86 concept just got a second concept by way of a teaser, and we'll have to--you guessed it--keep waiting for it until Geneva. The new concept? The FT-86 II. Creative, Toyota. No details accompany the new shot, but judging by...

The Prius family just gained its first new member, the Prius V, and a preview of its second: the Prius C. As V is for versatility, C is for city (though compact also works), and the Prius C delivers. Slotting four seats into a small B-segment body, the Prius C Concept is an outline for what to...

V for versatility. That's the 2012 Toyota Prius V's hook, and though it drops the "MP" from MPV, it's precisely that--and awfully familiar, too. It not only looks a lot like the standard Prius hatch, but with the Ford C-Max and its hybrid variants fresh in our minds, it looks rather like those...

Eyes on the road, hands on the wheel, apps in the car? That's the formula for Toyota's new Entune multimedia/app system, announced today at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. From iheartradio's 750 local radio stations to movie tickets, real-time traffic, and more, the Entune system...

Mobile phones (or other devices) are often the scapegoats for a host of evils behind the wheel, but that's not stopping the industry from pushing ever-higher levels of integration, and Entune is Toyota's latest stab at the goal. With mobile apps, Internet radio and more, it's a deep stab, too...

It's hard to believe that another year has come and gone. It seems like just yesterday we were writing about Lindsay Lohan's trip to rehab, and now, we're writing about...well, Lindsay Lohan's return to rehab. There's something comforting about that consistency, don't you think? And so, in the...