Toyota Partners with IUCN for Research on Threatened Species
Toyota and IUCN have inked a five-year partnership to preserve important species globally Toyota Motor Corporation today announced a five-year partnership with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)…
2017 Mini Seven Special Edition Coming to US Dealerships this Summer [PHOTOS]
The new Mini Seven comes with the Mini Connected infotainment system that provides smartphone integration In honor of the Austin Seven, which was the first classic Mini ever produced, the…
Toyota Tacoma Dominates Segment, but Could Run into Production Problems
The Toyota Tacoma is the best-selling midsize pickup truck in the country. In 2015, it led the segment with 179,562 sales, nearly a whole 100,000 ahead of its closest competitor,…
Camouflaged Redesigned Toyota Avensis Wagon Spotted in Europe
Never heard of the Toyota Avensis? If you’re the typical North American driver, the answer is probably not. The Avensis has been sold in the UK since 1997, and was…
Order a Mirai from Toyota Right Now
Californians, this could be you! Do you live in California? If you do, and you’re lucky enough to reside close to the limited hydrogen refueling stations, you could be on…
Toyota Supra Earns First Road-Course Win in NASCAR
Photo: Toyota Toyota Racing’s Christopher Bell secured his sixth victory of the season at the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Road America this weekend. It was his first win at…
2021 Toyota Mirai Range Could Be 400 Miles
Photo: Toyota Toyota is targeting a 400-mile range for the new 2021 Mirai, the second generation of the automaker’s hydrogen-powered fuel cell sedan. Debuted at last year’s Tokyo Motor Show,…
Toyota Recalls 6.4 Million Vehicles Worldwide
Toyota recalls 6.4 million vehicles, including the Camry. Apparently, Toyota wasn’t cool with General Motors hogging the recall spotlight anymore. The automaker was already in a close second for “Wow,…
Toyota Funds Hydrogen-Promoting TV Program
Photo: Toyota Motor North America The first episode of a new program dubbed “Powering the Nation — Hydrogen Fuel Cells — the Clean Transportation Alternative” has aired on the Science…
2003 – 2004 Toyota Avalon Recall Alert
At the end of last week, Toyota and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a 2003 – 2004 Toyota Avalon recall, which affects certain models of the Avalon…
Toyota to Replace Sticky Dashboards for Free
The 2010 Toyota Camry Over the last few months, there have been reports of Toyota customers dealing with sticky, melting dashboards in some of the more humid states. Until now,…
Toyota Recalls 132,624 Tundra Trucks
The recalls have been piling up all year long (cough, GM, cough). But The General isn’t the only automaker to recall vehicles this year. Toyota has recalled a fair share…
Toyota Recalls Sienna Minivan and Lexus GS Sedan
That snow is pretty, but it could cause your spare tire to fall off Toyota Motor is recalling approximately 450,000 Toyota Sienna minivans from model years 2004 to 2011. These cars,…
2017 Toyota Avalon Overview
The 2017 Toyota Avalon is a full-size sedan designed to provide an all-around excellent driving experience. Whether you need room for four adults, great resale value, high fuel economy, lots…
2016 Toyota Tacoma Teaser Image Has Us on the Edge of Our Seats
Auto show season is fast approaching, which means we’re preparing ourselves for a myriad of new model reveals and concept unveilings. Next month, at the Detroit Auto Show, the 2016…
Toyota Begins Construction of Smart City
Photo: Toyota Toyota broke ground for “Woven City” on Tuesday this week. Woven City is a new smart city that will serve as a center for technological innovations focused primarily…
2017 Toyota GT86 Gets Track Mode
Photo: © Toyota UK If you live in North America, you’ve known it as the Scion FR-S up until this year—but in Europe, the Toyota 86 has always had a…
Somebody Finally Won that Toyota Tundra at the Cincinnati Reds’ Ballpark
Since 2008, Cincinnati-area Toyota dealers have displayed a new Tundra pickup truck in Great American Ball Park. Each home game, one fan is selected to win the truck, should a…
New Toyota Tacoma Lift Kit Works with Safety Tech
Photo: Toyota The Toyota Tacoma TRD is already one of the best pickup trucks you can buy if your main interest is tackling off-road trails and crawling over rocks. And…
Toyota Sienna Woodland Edition is a Lifted Minivan
Photo: Toyota Sport utility vehicles have slowly been taking over every automotive sector, including minivans, but that isn’t stopping Toyota from giving the family-oriented Sienna a special-edition model that comes…
Toyota Shows Off Latest Autonomous Tech
In a new video, Toyota has made the first demonstration of its Guardian and Chauffeur autonomous vehicle platform. The video shows the advances that the Toyota Research Institute have made…
2014 Toyota Corolla Consumer Reports Review Gives Positive Feedback
2014 Toyota Corolla Consumer Reports magazine is one of the most influential publications in the market. With its valuable, in depth look into a variety of products, ranging from electronics…
Toyota to Provide Fully Electric Vehicle Lineup for 2020 Olympics
Photo: Toyota Toyota has announced it will provide a full lineup of electrified vehicles for the upcoming 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, including “unique versions of certain vehicles…
Toyota Sweeps Super GT Weekend with ‘Different Dimension’ Engine
Photo: Toyota The Toyota GR Supra made its Super GT debut at the iconic Fuji Speedway this Sunday, the first round of the 2020 Super GT Series, and it could…
Toyota “Stand Together” Ad Voted Best of 2016 Rio Olympics
If you watched the 2016 Rio Olympics on NBC this month, you may have found, as I did, that the coverage was extremely disappointing. In fact, I disliked it so…
Toyota Reaches 10 Million European-Built Vehicles
Toyota has reached 10 million vehicles built in Europe Some milestones are worth celebrating: your college graduation, the first time you get a proper job, the birth of your child.…
Toyota Yaris WRC Races to Victory in Sweden
Photo: Toyota Gazoo Racing The Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team celebrated its first win of the 2019 World Rally Championship season after Ott Tänak drove to a well-deserved victory…
New Toyota GR Yaris Could Be the King of Hot Hatches
Photo: Toyota Europe | YouTube A few days after putting out an initial teaser featuring Akio “Morizo” Toyoda at the wheel of the upcoming GR Yaris, Toyota has launched a…
Official Toyota Mirai EPA Numbers Revealed
Toyota has released EPA estimates for the 2016 Mirai fuel cell vehicle With its October release date coming ever closer, Toyota is finally releasing fuel economy numbers for the 2016…
Toyota Stays Ahead of Volkswagen as World’s Biggest Automaker
A long time ago, the Big Three Detroit automakers were also the world’s largest automakers by production. Today, while General Motors remains among the global top three, the fight for…
BMW-Toyota Sports Car Project Could Produce Different-Sized Cars
For what seems like forever now, BMW and Toyota have been working on a super secret sports car collaboration which has had Supra fans rejoicing for the possible return of…
Toyota Agrees to Develop Class 8 Fuel Cell Electric Truck
Photo: Toyota Toyota and Hino Trucks have agreed to jointly develop a Class 8 fuel cell electric truck for the North American market. With a minimum gross vehicle weight rating…
Toyota Announces Extra $3 Billion Investment in US Manufacturing
Photo: Toyota In 2017, Toyota declared it would invest $10 billion over five years in United States manufacturing, but today has announced it will actually exceed that pledge by nearly…
Toyota Hydrogen-Powered Bus Starts Testing in Tokyo
The Toyota fuel cell bus has begun testing in Tokyo Earlier this year, Toyota and Hino Motors began to operate their joint-project hydrogen fuel cell-powered bus in Toyota City, Japan.…
Toyota Brings New Electrified Vehicles to Washington Auto Show
Photo: Toyota While Toyota is teasing off-road vehicles for the upcoming Chicago Auto Show, the automaker is also showing off the new 2020 Highlander, 2021 Mirai, and 2021 RAV4 Prime…
Toyota Sales in Canada Soared 14 Percent in February
2020 Toyota RAV4 TRD Off-Road Photo: Toyota Toyota has announced it sold 15,288 vehicles in Canada in February, up 13.9 percent compared to the same month last year. Both the…
Toyota Safety Sense Coming to UK Yaris and Aygo
The Toyota Aygo Last December, Toyota announced a new safety package called Toyota Safety Sense that would start rolling out this year. In the UK, the package has already been…
Rumored Toyota Yaris WRC-Inspired Hot Hatch Coming Soon
America isn’t known for its vast array of hot hatches (no matter how much we beg automakers to bring them our way). Sure, you have your Ford Focus ST, your…
Toyota Wins 1-2 at Chaotic 6 Hours of Fuji
Given its location on home soil, it is perhaps understandable that Toyota has always done well at the 6 Hours of Fuji endurance race—and after losing the last four World…
Toyota FJ Cruiser Ultimate Edition: Retro Model Goes Out With a Bang
Toyota FJ Cruiser Ultimate Edition 2014 is the last year Toyota will make its retro-inspired FJ Cruiser. The sporty SUV, which first debuted in 2006, always appealed to those looking…
Start Saving Now: Lifelike Lego MINI Cooper Coming in August
Lego MINI Cooper: The Finished Product Any Lego fans out there? Here at The News Wheel, we were all huge Lego fans when we were kids (okay, and we still…
Toyota Will Build Japan’s Moon Rover
Photo: Toyota | YouTube The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has announced it plans to land on the moon in 2029 and that its astronauts will explore the lunar surface in…
2019 Honda Civic Hatchback Beats Toyota Corolla in Head-to-Head
Photo: Honda Toyota recently launched a new hatchback variant of the Corolla, and while the nameplate is famous, the car itself has been only lukewarmly received. Why bother with a…
Toyota Reveals All-New RAV4 Prime and Mirai in LA
Photo: Toyota Toyota showed off the first-ever RAV4 Prime and the all-new, second-generation 2021 Toyota Mirai at the 2019 Los Angeles Auto Show, alongside its highly-anticipated Camry AWD model. All…
The Toyota Tacoma is an Instrument, Apparently
Since the dawn of time, people have used things that are not instruments as instruments. That’s probably how instruments were invented in the first place, but I digress. Joining the…
2020 Toyota RAV4 TRD Off-Road Ready to Bust Trails
Photo: Toyota The 2020 Toyota RAV4 has officially joined Toyota Canada’s lineup of 2020 models with a new TRD Off-Road model certified to bust trails. It joins a rugged and…
Toyota and Ford All Tied Up Ahead of Final Rally America Race
Photo: © Toyota The fight for the Rally America National Championship continues between Toyota and Ford, and it couldn’t get any closer than this. Ryan Millen and co-pilot Christina Fate…
Toyota Invests in US-Based Car-Sharing Company ‘Getaround’
Toyota’s headquarters in Torrance, California Being an automobile manufacturer is quickly becoming about more than just building cars. Most of the major brands have now realized that they aren’t just…
Dyno Tests Show Supra is More Powerful Than Toyota Says
Photo: Toyota Toyota says the BMW-developed, twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter inline six-cylinder in the new Supra sports car makes 335 horsepower and 365 lb-ft of torque, but dyno testing by Car and…
Toyota Executives Earn Women in Manufacturing STEP Awards
Millie Marshall, the president of Toyota’s West Virginia powertrain plant. Toyota executives Millie Marshall and Susan Elkington will both be awarded with the Women in Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering,…
