Toyota News

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has created a booklet to help parents understand all the safety features on their vehicles, and how to keep children safe by using the available safety features and car seats. The booklet opens up with a list of a few safety features to help ...    Read more

A settlement of $1.63 billion for Toyota's 2010 "unintended acceleration" fiasco seems unfathomably high, covering 22 million customers who own or owned an "affected" vehicle during the time the cars were said to have had problems. That works out to right around $74 per customer, though. But Toyota isn't parting with ...    Read more

The twelfth-generation Toyota Corolla has been caught testing in the U.S. alongside a Honda Civic HF and Mazda 3 sedan, and from the looks of the photos, the new subcompact will be very similar to the Corolla Furia Concept that made its debut at the Detroit Auto Show this ...    Read more

Toyota continues to pressure U.S. safety regulators to approve a headlight design that is currently not allowed on U.S. roads. These new headlights use cameras to detect other vehicles and dim portions of the high beams to avoid blinding oncoming traffic. Currently, these headlights are in use in more than 16,000 ...    Read more

When the 2014 Toyota 4Runner was introduced two weeks ago at the Stagecoach Festival, Toyota said the SUV would have plenty of features carry over from the pre-refreshed version in addition to a more luxurious ...    Read more

This is stating the obvious, but young drivers are way more at risk of motor vehicle crashes and fatalities than other demographics. Noticing this, the National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) have partnered with the government, corporate leaders, young people, and other partners to launch Global Youth Traffic Safety Month, ...    Read more

At the end of last month, Mercedes-Benz announced a recall on select 2013 GL models, including the GL350 BlueTEC, GL450 4MATIC, GL550 4MATIC, and GL63 AMG. The vehicles affected have a manufacturing date between May 15, 2012 and October 4, 2012. Toyota also announced a recall late last month on ...    Read more

A new IIHS study has found that the top tether on child seats, a strap meant to prevent a child restraint from falling forward, is being ignored by many parents. These tethers are part of a child restraint system called LATCH, or Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children. The reason ...    Read more

Toyota is taking a bath on its hydrogen vehicle development program. Going on sale in 2015, the car whose technology once cost more than $1 million per unit will come down between $50,000 and $100,000 when it goes on sale in two years' time. We think it will be even ...    Read more

Real SUVs are a dying breed. Gas is expensive, and while people still like the rugged style and utility of an SUV, they can find much of it in a crossover without such a penalty in fuel economy. But for some, a proper SUV is the only way to go, rugged ...    Read more

The final full week of April 2013 has come to a close, but before it goes away forever, you'll want to check out all of this week's important happenings in the automotive world. The week began with news from Germany as BMW is pondering the possibility of a 1 Series ...    Read more

All the tallies from the first quarter of 2013 have been counted around the world, and Toyota has somehow managed to hold on to its title as the world's largest automaker, if by only ...    Read more

When it's unveiled this weekend at the Stagecoach Festival--country music's Coachella--the refreshed 2014 Toyota 4Runner will be noteworthy for two reasons: It will be the first time a major automaker has introduced a vehicle at an arts festival, and the 4Runner carries on as one of the last of the ...    Read more

With its newest concept, the Toyota Me.We, is a symbol of minimalism in a world of excess. Toyota has just unveiled the concept in Paris, and says the inspiration for the vehicle came from a desire to move away from the motor industry tradition. This is an alternative to cars ...    Read more

Thanks to falling gas prices, the Toyota Prius may not reach its target growth in 2013. The automaker planned on selling 250,000 Prius models this year in the US, which would be a 5.6 percent increase over 2012. However, in the first quarter of the year, sales of the hybrid ...    Read more

Southeast Toyota, which operates semi-autonomously from Toyota in the rest of the country, has recalled 19 separate models for mismatched labels that are outside the weight limits prescribed by the automaker. As a result, customers may be under the impression they can load the vehicles up beyond what the vehicle ...    Read more

The redesigned 2014 Toyota 4Runner will debut at the 2013 Stagecoach Music Festival in Indio, California on April 27. This is the automaker's first public reveal at a major music festival. The 4Runner is now in its fifth generation, and one of the few fully capable SUVs in the segment. ...    Read more

Earlier this week, Toyota announced that it has sold 5 million hybrid vehicles worldwide, with 2 million of them sold in the United States. The most notable hybrid in the Toyota lineup is the Prius, which has become one of the world's best-selling cars today and is sold in 80 ...    Read more

The new Ward's 10 Best Interiors list is out, and here's the shocker: there's not one Audi on the list. Ward's evaluates based on new interiors, and the German automaker, widely considered to offer the best interiors, doesn't have a significantly "new" vehicle. But Audi wasn't the only omission: there ...    Read more

It isn't easy starting a car company, a lesson Fisker learned that the hard way firsthand earlier this week. Unfortunately for the Southern California-based electric vehicle maker, after a series of recent events, it looks like there's no going back and its doors will likely be shutting shortly. It wasn't ...    Read more

The U.S. and Japan have agreed to begin talks that could lead to the elimination of import tariffs on Japanese-made cars and trucks, angering many politicians and the domestic automakers. As part of the Asia-Pacific trade agreement, the two nations sorted their differences among politicians, allowing Japan to join a larger ...    Read more

Today, the largest ever recall for airbags was announced, with 3.4 million vehicles being recalled with airbags made by Takata. The world's second largest supplier of airbags took a stock hit as shared dropped 10 percent in Tokyo trading. This recall marks Toyota's largest recall since October of last year, when ...    Read more

Both Toyota and Ford claim to have the world's top-selling car for the second time in seven months, and once again demonstrate that claiming that title isn't as simple as just counting cars. Yesterday Ford claimed its Focus was the leading car with 1.02 cars sold, according to data ...    Read more

Toyota will be holding behind-the-wheel safety events in Torrance, California, Denver, Colorado, and San Antonio, Texas for new drivers as part of its free driving program, Toyota Driving Expectations. Teen drivers with permits or licenses can use the classes, and online resources, to learn about defensive driving skills, accident avoidance, ...    Read more

The marketing war over towing claims for light-duty pickups between the Detroit Three--Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler--and Toyota will continue until 2015. The Detroit automakers continue to ignore towing standards for pickups negotiated with SAE International for the 2013 model year. Because each automaker is using its own tests to measure ...    Read more