Toyota News

If you've been following the hubbub and ballyhoo around the development of Toyota's next rear-drive coupe, code-named the FT-86 and rumored to be called the FR-S in production, you're aware of its on-again, off-again, it's coming, but we don't know exactly when or what, path. The latest news spins...

Being an ex-U.S. President must be great. A lifetime stipend, Secret Service bodyguards, muscle cars screaming across your front lawn at all hours of the night. Err, what? Late Wednesday evening a rogue muscle car ran off the road ending up in former President George W. Bush's front lawn. The...

Though Toyota bailed on Formula One is less-than-graceful fashion, the company's motorsport division has remained, and is now seeking to apply its hard-earned knowledge to a Le Mans Prototype for the 2011 season. Partnering with Rebellion Racing for a Lola-chassis racer, Toyota Motorsport has...

The life of a model/actor is hard. "Oh, right", you say, "lying on a sofa and staring vacantly into a bank of cameras is way tougher than military service or manual labor or having no job at all." But hey, we've seen All About Eve and Valley of the Dolls and America's Next Top Model. Like Gina...

Toyota has revealed the new Tesla-partnered RAV4 EV at the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show today, the first of 35 demonstration vehicles that will lay the ground work for the eventual launch of a retail version in 2012. Developers of the RAV4 EV are hoping it will have range of 100 miles in actual road...

Every year the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) produces a list of the best and worst cars for fuel efficiency and not surprisingly this year’s worst offender is the 2011 Bugatti Veyron--a car fitted with a quad-turbocharged 16-cylinder engine displacing no less than 8.0-liters. This...

Though it happened in June, the sudden passing of Hiromu Naruse, Toyota's chief test driver, in a crash on German roads still feels fresh. Naruse's influence on Toyota's vehicles ran so deep the company decided to pay video tribute to his role in this short clip. Naruse worked for Toyota for over...

Toyota has done lost its mind. This stretched, "tricked out, suped up" minivan is the Swagger Wagon Supreme. As our social media hero Joel Feder so eloquently put it, "...speechless." There's no other way to describe what's going on here. Created in cooperation with B.A.D. Company, the Swagger...

If you keep up with Hollywood and/or the car scene, chances are pretty good that you're aware of the whole "Electric cars are gay" conflamma surrounding Ron Howard's new film, The Dilemma. But just in case you've been out of the loop, here's what you need to know: (a) there's a new movie called The...

When you make more than 10 million cars per year, if something goes wrong on a significant batch of them, the recall size is going to be pretty big. Toyota has been a case study in this concept over the past year or so, today adding another 740,000 vehicles in the U.S. and over 1.5 million...

Last week, an extra on the set of Michael Bay's Transformers 3 was gravely injured when a stunt went horribly wrong. The actress -- 24-year-old Gabriela Cedillo -- was on a set in Hammond, Indiana, when a cable being used in the scene snapped and hit her in the head. The accident occurred during...

Toyota and Subaru confirmed as far back as April of last year that the two companies would collaborate on the development of a new affordable sports car and at the Tokyo Motor Show of that same year we saw the first tangible evidence of the partnership with the unveiling of the Toyota FT-86...

The revival of the Supra nameplate could go in several directions, including the FT-86.

Although estimates have been given for the EV's price tag, the Volt has been given an official number today. Shoppers can expect to see a $41,000 MSRP on the window stickers of Volts when they arrive in showrooms before the end of the year. Subtract available rebates and the Volt price drops to...

Rumors of the FT-86's death may have been a bit premature.

Toyota Supra and MR2 fans rejoice! A new generation of those popular sports cars is currently being developed but as time and technology have progressed, so has the philosophy of the sports car--at least it has within Toyota. According to reports, successors for the Supra and MR2 will be launched...

The Chumpcar World Series heads to Texas Motor Speedway and Motor Authority is there to cover the action.

The reports indicate Toyota's FT-86 sports car could bear the somewhat awkward FR-S badge.

Flip-flopping along, the FT-86 isn't expected for another couple of years now.

A few decades from now, the kids of today, maybe your own children, will look back and remember a rapidly changing automotive industry.  Chances are, a handful of vehicles will highlight their memories of current automotive technology.  Here's a few names that are likely to come up in...