Toyota News

U.S. automakers have finally agreed on a uniform standard to determine the towing capacity of a pickup truck, veteran auto journalist Bill Visnic tells us in his article in Edmunds.com. Visnic says engineers from Ford, Chrysler, GM, and Toyota, along with the Society of Automotive Engineers, worked for several years to create the standard - which ... (more)

Automakers can't guarantee success for a new car or truck, even after spending hundreds of millions, even billions, of dollars on development, testing and market research.

Toyota brought the Corolla to U.S. shores in the summer of 1968, just as sales of imported vehicles were on the rise.

In previous incarnations of Toyota's take on the big American family car, Toyota put a lot of functionality, a lot of value and a lot of reliability - and that's all well and good - but you gotta bring style and soul to the table if you want to go up against the Chrysler 300's and Ford Taurus of the world.

THE Toyota Corolla is a car of which owners can be proud, if not overly excited.

This midsize four-door looks and feels more upscale than its $20,880 starting price would imply.

For reference and clarification, by "electric" I hereby mean both pure electric cars and those accompanied by an on-board generator, such as the Chevrolet Volt or the upcoming BMW i3.

Global car giant Toyota Motor Corporation will consider launching more small cars and entering fast growing segments like compact SUVs in order to achieve market leadership in India.

The Chevrolet Spark all-electric subcompact car will cost U.S. buyers as much as 38 percent less than what it takes to buy its larger sibling, the hybrid Volt, General Motors Co said on Thursday.

The $63,000 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT is a strange creation. The interior is as nice as you'll find on many fancy European cars.

The truck carrying 96 gallons of lemonade rolled to a sloshing stop on North 7th Street in Brooklyn, the block that dead ends at the East River.

FORD will close its manufacturing operations in Australia and 1200 workers will lose their jobs in October 2016, despite receiving $1.1 billion in taxpayer funding over the past decade.

Hybrid car owners would pay a special fee to recoup lost gasoline taxes under the state Senate's budget.

Sometime in the next few weeks, the 100,000th plug-in electric car will be sold in the U.S. But they're still mostly a mystery to the average new-car buyer, and there are a few key principles that get shared over and over again.

Serving as an alternative to full-sized pickup trucks, the Toyota Tacoma is well suited to handling cargo hauling and fairly challenging off-roading. But as we were reminded with our recent crew-cab test truck, the Tacoma makes for a lousy family vehicle.

Ford enjoyed great success with the EcoBoost V-6 engines in its F-150 pickups and that has General Motors working overtime to buff the image of its new V-6 in the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra - as well claims about the fuel economy of the new 5.3-litre V-8 in GM's new rigs.

Holden has adopted a tactic of targeting family buyers over fleets with the new model due in showrooms next month.

At around 4.20pm on Friday, May 17, a 46-year-old woman was driving a black Toyota Celica along Oxford Road, when a silver Ford Fusion pulled out in front of her, causing her to brake suddenly.

Toyota has teased us with a photo of the 2014 Corolla , which will be fully unveiled on June 6. The image uploaded to Toyota USA's Facebook page shows a close-up of the taillight and rear badge, and we can a slight resemblance to the Furia concept from Detroit .

Today we spent some time in the new 2013 Lexus ES-350 sedan. Our drive comes on the heels of a brief test drive last fall at the media launch, and recently the more sporting IS-350 sedans .