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| Toyota To Display Plug-In Prius |
| 2008-06-16 20:51:01 |
Toyota showcased a prototype plug-in Prius hybrid at Legislative Plaza on today, June 16, during a field hearing on electric drive vehicles entitled for by the Congressional TVA Caucus.According to news, the prototype Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) enhances the high fuel economy and ultra-low emissions of the well-liked Toyota Prius production hybrid model with a developed Nickel-Metal-Hydride battery pack that can be charged by plugging into a typical household electrical outlet. The ve...
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| Who Said Sporty Can’t Be Green? |
| 2008-02-27 18:58:21 |
Toyota is showing the world that giving a vehicle the power to go faster does not necessarily equate to being harmful to the environment. See, the Japanese car maker has created a sports car that is very much unlike the Chevy S10 -- it does not send off much harmful emissions to the environment.
What Toyota did was it created the Future Toyota Hybrid Sports (FT-HS). The Toyota FT-HS is still a concept vehicle at present but it has been designed to be a sports car that is equipped with a petrol...
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| Toyota iQ City Car To Debut at Geneva Auto Show |
| 2008-02-15 01:15:25 |
If Ford has its all-new Fiesta
and Rinspeed boasts of its “sQuba,” well, Toyota
has its latest iQ small car to join the array of cars at the upcoming Geneva
International Motor Show.
According to autobloggreen.com,
iQ’s mini-car concept unveiled in last year’s Frankfurt Motor Show includes a
Japanese mini that is 2.98 meters long, with a three plus one seater, which
means that two seats can be occupied by adults in front. It can also be
utilized as a space for luggage. The
front pas...
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| Toyota Considering Building New Truck |
| 2008-02-11 22:41:53 |
Toyota is already on a roll and yet it is still continuously working and figuring out just what new vehicles they could send out to the market. Don Esmond, the company’s senior VP, has mentioned via The Car Connection that they are currently looking into a smaller truck which could built on the present Tacoma and sent to the market.
Esmond also did continue to disclose that the vehicle would not be coming with Buick parts but it would actually take on the form that the A-Bat concept truck ha...
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| Toyota Cars: Still Hot In U.S. |
| 2008-02-08 20:14:36 |
Toyota vehicles have sustained their reputation as one of the most admired nameplates in the US territory. Since the beginning of the year 2008, Toyota placed impressive figures headed by the Toyota Camry which sits third best-sales record in the U.S. Five vehicles from Toyota’s abode had been included in the list of best-selling vehicles in the country. According to the Auto Channel, overall sales of the top 20 vehicles increased 1.2 percent or 4,418 units to 378,523. RANK VEHICLE - TOTAL U...
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| Toyota 1/X Debuts In North America |
| 2008-02-08 03:08:39 |
Aside from the much-talked about Toyota Urban Runner, another Toyota masterpiece was introduced at the ongoing Chicago Auto Show, North America’s largest auto show.
Popularly known as the Toyota 1/X, (pronounced as “one-Xth”) the vehicle was named after its mass, fuel use and emissions output, which totals to that fraction compared to other vehicles of the same class. To give you an example, its 500 cc flex-fuel engine, a part of a plug-in hybrid powertrain weighs only one quarter t...
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| Toyota In China |
| 2008-02-02 00:40:03 |
We all know how the Asian market seems to be growing. For example, the Indian car market is slowly being entered by auto makers so as to be able to take a good share of the industry. Now, auto makers are trying to take on anther Asian country - China.
Although Toyota is known to be from Asian, the car maker is planning on having its own plant in China. That way, the company has disclosed via AFP, they could be able to establish a stronger presence. The company is currently eyeing Changchun in t...
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| 5th Toyota TFLP Held in Salt Lake City |
| 2008-01-26 00:31:03 |
Three elementary schools in Salt Lake City received benefits from Toyota' 5th Toyota Family Literacy Program (TFLP) held last January 17. Monroe Elementary, James Moss Elementary and Woodrow Wilson Elementary, all located in the Granite School District, were given $6,000 to fund its programs that serve children in kindergarten to third grade and their parents. In coordination with the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL), an organization that advocates family literacy, TFLP aspires to de...
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| Plug-In Hybrid Development Highlighted By Toyota In Detroit |
| 2008-01-15 19:44:04 |
The ongoing expansion of plug-in hybrids is headed to a certain bright future as Toyota continues to promote these exceptional vehicles to the rapidly growing automotive industry. Forget about those filthy fuel filters because the future is here! The company has announced that it will present a number of Toyota Prius plug-in electric hybrid (PHEV) models at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit for executive shuttle service to and from the Cobo Center. According to The Auto ...
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| Toyota to present new hybrid pickup truck |
| 2008-01-08 18:54:40 |
Last Friday, Toyota Motor Corp. announced its plans of making the 2008 North American International Auto Show more popularly known as the Detroit Auto Show as the stage of their new concept hybrid pick-up truck. Named the A-BAT, Toyota’s new concept vehicle features the next level of fuel economy and lower emissions. The trapezoidal look is derived from the best selling Toyota Prius. According to the automaker, the A-BAT facets Toyota’s third generation of gas-electric hybrid powertrain tech...
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| Lexus Sets New Record in Nurburgring |
| 2008-01-07 02:34:45 |
Based on the reports by Auto Express and Japanese car magazine Holiday Auto, Lexus insiders have revealed that the upcoming 552 bhp Lexus LF-A sports car has lapped the Nurburgring in 7minutes and 24 seconds surpassing the current record time set by the Pagani Zonda F at 7 minutes and 27 seconds and even beating the record time set by the all-new Porsche 911 GT2 (7:32 AutoBild, 7:25 AutoExpress).The German Nurburgring has been considered as the benchmark for measuring the performance of sports ...
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| Toyota’s December Sales |
| 2008-01-04 20:00:49 |
Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc. accounted their best-ever year-end sales of 2,620,825 vehicles. Records revealed that they were up by 2.7 percent over last year’s figures. The company now has 12 straight years of exceptional record-breaking sales. The Lexus brand on the other hand is obviously doing great. It’s “sky is the limit” for Lexus and a great rampage of vehicle sales is expected to pour down Toyota’s window for the next years to follow."Great products and valu...
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| Toyota’s A-BAT Concept Vehicle to Debut at the 2008 NAIS |
| 2008-01-01 20:24:21 |
For the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Toyota Motor Corporation the archrival of Honda the producer of high quality Acura Legend belts is planning to introduce a concept hybrid pickup truck that will feature an improve fuel economy and lower emissions. The A-BAT concept vehicle as what Toyota called its creation will be equipped with Hybrid Synergy Drive which is the automaker’s third-generation gasoline-electric hybrid power train technology. The vehicle’s trape...
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| Deadline Set For Toyota F1 Boss |
| 2008-01-01 18:55:24 |
Although Toyota is not as experienced in Formula One as Honda or Renault or McLaren and Ferrari, it is said that the team has the biggest budget. Thus, they are expected to win some races but unfortunately, the team is struggling with the 2007 season ending with Ralf Schumacher leaving the team. Schumacher and teammate Jarno Trulli only managed to finish as high as sixth place last year.This struggle has been going on for years and it seems as if the home office is calling for better results....
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| Toyota Aygo Platinum Edition |
| 2007-12-27 02:00:13 |
For the coming new year Toyota UK has prepared something special and it’s called the Toyota Aygo Platinum Edition. The Aygo Platinum is offered in both 3-door and 5-door powered with Toyota’s 1.0 liter VVT-i petrol engine that achieves 61.4 mpg in combined driving cycle. Its carbon emission is just 109 g/km of CO2 and charge only with £35 a year in Vehicle Excise Duty. The Aygo Platinum is made better than the Aygo+ since it was added with Alcantara and leather upholstery, leather steering...
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| Toyota Plans To Maintain Lead Over GM In 2008 |
| 2007-12-26 18:48:55 |
The battle between the two big names in the auto industry just keeps on getting exciting as ever. It’s like a hot radiator ready to burst anytime! Toyota and GM, both successful in the past years, has taken the rivalry into the next level.
According to The Auto Channel, Chang-Ran Kim, a writer for Reuters, reported that the Toyota Motor Corp. will blast off further into rising car markets to attain another successful year of record sales for the coming year. Toyota aims to stay on top as the w...
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| Panasonic Toyota’s Tests In Jerez |
| 2007-12-16 19:34:41 |
Panasonic Toyota is aggressively working things out for the 2008 season. With several alterations in their team, Jarno Trulli and the rest of the team are all set to face the odds in the upcoming 2008 Formula One World Championship and wish to have a great season ahead.
According to Motor Sport, Panasonic Toyota Racing concluded the 2007 season with the final test of the year at Jerez in Spain several days ago."We tried to achieve many things today so it was quite busy for me. I used th...
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| Toyota Tops J.D. Power and Associates Survey in Customer Retention |
| 2007-12-14 22:37:24 |
Despite the bad publicities hurdled at Toyota it didn’t stop new and loyal customers from visiting Toyota dealers to purchase Toyota vehicles. As a matter of fact the result of the survey conducted by J.D. Power & Associates shows that Toyota has once again led all automakers in terms of customer retention. Toyota has posted 65% of Toyota’s buyers last year has traded a Toyota for a new one. Coming in second place is Toyota’s luxury division Lexus with 63% followed by Honda Motor, th...
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| Toyota and Its Violin-Playing Robot |
| 2007-12-14 20:40:44 |
Toyota not to be outdone by Honda--the producer of quality Acura distributor cap and creator of the ASIMO robot—in the field of robotics has also released a human-sized robot that can play the violin.The Toyota robot has performed a full rendition of Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance. A video of the robot may be viewed on YouTube.According to Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe in an interview with The Guardian, "Over the next two to three years, we will put the robots to the test through ...
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