Toyota Canada CEO Defends Auto Shows & Motorsports
Toyota Canada CEO and President Larry Hutchinston Photo: Toyota Canada Are auto shows outdated? Larry Hutchinson, president and CEO of Toyota Canada, doesn’t think so. Speaking at the 2020 Canadian…
2022 Formula 1 Season Could Be Epic
Photo: Honda Just four days from the opening grand prix in Bahrain, the 2022 Formula 1 season is already shaping up to be an epic one. It will be hard…
Honda Begins Making Ventilator Parts for COVID-19 Patients
Photo: Honda Honda has begun producing vital ventilator parts for COVID-19 patients at its technical development center in Marysville, Ohio. The automaker teamed up with Dynaflo, a manufacturer of valves,…
Toyota Ranked 4th U.S. Company for Diversity in New Study
Photo: Toyota Toyota continues to lead the automotive industry as the top car manufacturer in the 2022 Top 50 Companies for Diversity list, this time ranking fourth overall — up…
EV Tax Credit Bill Faces Opposition from Tesla, Toyota, and Republicans
Photo: Ralph Hutter via Unsplash Democrats are attempting to move a bill through Congress that would allow American customers who purchase an electric vehicle to get $12,500 back on their…
Toyota Will Sell New Fuel Cell Module to Other Companies
What’s in the box? Photo: Toyota Toyota has developed a new fuel cell module that it will sell to other manufacturers seeking to lower their carbon footprint. The module will…
All-New Toyota Prius Is Actually Incredible Looking
Photo: Toyota Toyota revealed the next-generation Prius last night, ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show. And while we expected powertrain improvements (and we got them, more on that below),…
First U.S. Toyota EV Will Arrive Mid-2022
Photo: Toyota Toyota has finally taken the wraps off the all-new bZ4X, its first U.S.-bound all-electric vehicle. Sized similarly to the RAV4, the bestselling SUV in the country, the bZ4X…
Maserati MC20 Debuts at Goodwood Festival of Speed
Photo: Maserati The all-new Maserati MC20 supercar has made its U.K. debut at the 27th Goodwood Festival of Speed, where it took on the famous hill climb and gave the…
FIA Dismisses Red Bull Racing’s Petition for Crash Review
Photo: Honda The FIA has announced it will not review (again) the crash between Formula 1 drivers Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, as requested by Red Bull Racing, because the…
Film Review: ‘Ford v Ferrari’
I walked into my local theater’s showing of Ford v Ferrari with modest expectations. On the one hand, it was directed by the same man behind the excellent Logan, features…
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Fields: Ford Dealers Should Have Full F-150 Stock by Q2 2015
Bill Ford and the Dearborn Truck Plant crew celebrate the first F-150 Vehicle launches are crucial to an automaker’s success, and Ford is looking to be in step from day…
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Maserati Teams Up With Streetwear Giant, Again
Photo: Maserati The year 2021 seems to be the year of Maserati special edition models. Like it did last month, the Italian luxury carmaker teamed up with another streetwear fashion…
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First featured in the 2001 film The Fast and the Furious, the car is probably best known for making a Ferrari driver look like a punk Dodge models have been…
2016 Nissan 370Z Coupe Overview
It seems that nobody who makes sports cars cares much for the middle-class enthusiast. It appears that every true performance vehicle is ludicrously expensive, while lower-priced vehicles are limited to four-cylinder…
How the RV Industry Is Helping Against COVID-19
Photo: Jairph via Unsplash Major RV manufacturers around the world are investing their resources into producing and donating critical supplies in the fight against the escalating COVID-19 pandemic. Last week,…
New Toyota Tech Can Detect Your Breathing and Heartbeat
Image: Toyota Toyota Connected North America has revealed a new technology called Cabin Awareness that uses high-resolution, millimeter-wave 4D imaging radar to detect occupants, including a variety of pets. The…
How the RV Industry Boomed in the 2010s
Photo: Dominika Roseclay | Pexels If you bought a recreational vehicle in the last decade, you were far from alone. The RV industry positively boomed in the 2010s, with sales…
Ford Teams Up With Redwood Materials to Recycle End-of-Life Batteries
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Shoppers Say They’d Pay Stupid Money for a New Car
Supply-chain issues are continuing to impact new car availability and pushing prices up, but most new-car shoppers are still willing to dig deep to get the car they want. A…
Japanese Grand Prix is Officially Out for 2021
Photo: Michael Elleray via CC The country that just hosted the biggest sporting event in the world amid a state of emergency has just announced the 2021 Japanese Grand Prix…
2022 Toyota Mirai Comes With $15,000 of Free Hydrogen
Photo: Toyota It seems that every year, Toyota makes the Mirai an even greater value proposition. When it launched the second-generation 2021 model, it cut the MSRP down from $58,550…
Focus RS Chief Engineer Tyrone Johnson Named AutoCar Engineer of the Year
Tyrone Johnson, Focus RS chief engineer Ford’s new Focus RS has been winning awards seemingly left and right, from the 2016 Vehicle Dynamics International Car of the Year to Top…
4 Annoying & Bad Driver Habits
Photo: Rene Schwietzke via CC Some bad driver habits are so common that they stop being irritating and instead barely penetrate one’s consciousness. When you’ve seen hundreds of drivers block…
Robert Kubica Drives F1 Car Again Six Years After Rally Crash
Robert Kubica, once one of the most admired racers on the Formula One grid, drove an F1 car for the first time yesterday since his horror crash in early 2011…
Thor Boosts RV Production as Demand Swells
Photo: Jayco Thor Industries, the parent company of some of the world’s biggest RV manufacturers including Jayco, Keyston, and Hymer, is increasing production at some of its RV facilities in…
Goodbye Pastor Maldonado – We'll Miss Watching You Crash
Goodbye, Pastor. Pastor Maldonado has announced on Twitter he is leaving the Renault Formula 1 team (formerly Lotus) and retiring from the sport altogether, a decision that many fans understand…
Exotic Driving Experience at Walt Disney World
The Exotic Driving Experience at Walt Disney World Photo: Ricky Brigante Have you ever wanted to borrow a Lamborghini, but couldn’t quite convince your buddy to buy one? Well, you…
Toyota Announces Meaningless $10 Billion US Investment Following Meaningless Trump Tweet
Photo: Gage Skidmore Shortly after President-elect Donald Trump threatened Toyota with a “big border tax” if it were to build a new plant for the Corolla in Baja, Mexico, the…
‘Alonso Did Everything to Make Honda Look Bad,’ Says Helmut Marko
Photo: Heimo Ruschitz Helmut Marko, advisor to the Red Bull Racing and head of the Red Bull Junior Team, has been keeping close tabs on Honda, Toro Rosso’s new engine…
This is The Next-Gen 2022 Toyota Tundra
Photo: Toyota After a low-resolution photo of the upcoming, next-generation 2022 Toyota Tundra was leaked on the internet by an anonymous source, Toyota did the only reasonable thing: release the…
McLaren Has Actually Done It—Their 2017 F1 Car is Orange!
I was going to wait until all of the 2017 Formula 1 cars were revealed to do a recap with all the photos, but after McLaren revealed its new MCL32…
It Took Me 20 Years to Realize that Geri Horner (aka Ginger Spice) Loves Cars
Apparently, Ginger Spice has always had a love for classic cars Photo: Geri Horner Geri Horner (née Halliwell) is best-known as one-fifth of the ’90s British pop super group the…
Formula 1 Profile – Michael Schumacher
With a record seven World Championships and 91 wins, Michael Schumacher is by far the most successful Formula 1 driver of all time, perhaps even one of the greatest drivers…
Biggest-Ever F1 Survey Reveals Max Verstappen is Most Popular Driver
Photo: Honda Results from the biggest Formula 1 survey ever conducted reveal, among a wide variety of other interesting insights, that Max Verstappen is currently the sport’s most popular driver.…
Guide to Toyota Safety Sense
Spot the cameras and sensors Toyota Toyota Safety Sense is a suite of active safety and driver-assistive technologies. Every new Toyota model on the market comes with TSS as standard…
Could the Toyota Crown Be Coming to the U.S.?
Photo: Toyota The Toyota Crown was the very first Toyota vehicle to be exported to the United States, but after a 15-year run, the automaker stopped selling the famously luxurious…
In the Rearview: Past, Present, and Future
Welcome once again to In the Rearview, where we bring you some of the top stories on The News Wheel from the past week. This time, we are taking a…
2015 United States Grand Prix Recap: Lewis Hamilton Crowned Champion
Nothing like champagne to mix with the sweat after a race. There will be no easy way to summarize this Grand Prix. The weekend was not punctuated but rather flooded…
Heartbreak for Toyota at Le Mans
The leading #5 Toyota TS050 Hybrid is passed on the final, 384th lap. Photo: Toyota WEC Team/Twitter It couldn’t have happened in a crueler way. Toyota has had its sights…
New Honda Sensing 360 System Features Omni-Directional Sensors
Photo: Honda Honda has announced the next generation of its safety and driver-assistive technology suite: Honda Sensing 360. It will be standard equipment on all new Honda and Acura models…
Assetto Corsa Review: Your Italian Racing Simulator
If you love driving or even racing cars, but like most of us have a limited budget, the next best thing to heading to the local track is hopping into…
Porsche Taycan Establishes Electric Lap Record at The Bend
Photo: Porsche The Porsche Taycan has set the first all-electric lap record at The Bend Motorsport Park, a 4.8-mile circuit in South Australia. It set a lap time of 3…
Toyota’s $1.3B Investment in Indiana Creates 550 New Jobs
Photo: Toyota Toyota announced it invested an additional $700 million and added 150 new jobs to Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana to complete a modernization project that started in January 2017.…
What's So Special About Brembo Brakes?
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After Binge-Watching All 8 ‘Fast & Furious’ Films, This Hilarious Video Sums Up What it Was Like
Before The Fate of the Furious hit the big screen, I resolved to watch the whole Fast & Furious franchise to get properly acquainted with the series that car enthusiasts…
