The Grayline

Toyota has announced that they will be upgrading the batteries in their upcoming 09 and 2010 model year Prius hybrids.  Furthermore they will be upgrading the tiny 1.5 litre engine to the one currently used in the Camry, a 1.8 litre.
The new batteries will be made with nickel-metal hybride packs.  Everyone is still waiting around [...]

Personally I’m starting to hate how recall’s are just an expected part of purchasing a new car.  It would seem no matter what manufacturer, you will have at least a few recalls.  Even after manufacturers spend millions of dollars on testing, research, and engineering they can still screw up and need to spend even more [...]

Earlier in the year Toyota announced the production of an all new Venza SUV.  Toyota was hoping they could bring enough change to the crossover market to make the Toyota Venza appealing, you be the judge.  Obviously this high priced SUV is marketed towards the ‘Boomers’ and well-to-do small families.  I think the new Venza [...]

According to industry analysts and Toyota, the manufacturer is planning on producing 100,000 new hybrid cars by 2009.  This is a hybrid only vehicle, which will be released under the Lexus name plate in the US and looks to be an upsale to the great selling green car Prius.
Toyota is obviously hoping this new hybrid [...]

I’m not sure they could have found a more fitting name for this Rally looking freak show known as a Toyota Aygo Crazy.  Yes, it’s a one-off, but if you are only going to build one might as well make it amazing, which is what it looks like Toyota did.  Plenty of smooth lines, aggressive [...]

Looks like Toyota is taking another green move and will possibly be outfitting the Toyota Prius with a set of solar panels.  These panels would be equipped on a select number of Prius hybrids and would power things like A/C and other electronics on board.
“It’s more of a symbolic gesture,” said the person, who asked [...]

It’s cute, it’s cuddly, and up until now if you got hit in the side by a shopping cart you would probably have been killed.  But the all new 2009 Toyota Yaris will start offering side airbags as standard equipment.  This was no doubt a much needed safety addition to the ever growing small car [...]

According to Toyota they will start manufacturing a Toyota Camry Hybrid in China by 2010.  They are hopiong to ramp up production as they see a demand for hybrid vehicles increase, obviously in line with increasing fuel prices.  Seems to be a smart move, especially considering the Chinese government recently increased gas prices, the potential [...]

Toyota is doing another push for the love it or loathe it Scion, with the special edition Scion Hot Lava xD.  This will be a very limited edition Scion with Toyota making only 2,000 units.  The Scion marketing ploy will entail 12 major cities, Website Banner Ads, and Newspaper ads all over the US.  This [...]