Now this is what I’m talking about. This is what needs to be done to make electric vehicles not only better, but much more fun to drive: Race them. I’ve always found the vocal and bitter response from almost all gearheads to anything and everything EV-related to be highly puzzling. Digging your trench deeper or [...]
The Toyota Prius family is growing – in fact some think it could one day supplant the Camry as Toyota’s best-selling car. To capitalize on the success of the original, Toyota is introducing the larger Prius V, as well as a new smaller model that will slot in below the current car. The smaller model [...]
In a current automobile marketplace revealing a most robust palette of crossover vehicles, sports cars, trucks and super sedans, the Toyota Camry projects the excitement of unbuttered bread. Despite this fact, the Camry has routinely been the one of the best-selling vehicles in North America. Viewed as constant proof that the rather ‘Plain Jane’ [...]
With Buick no longer producing what I like to call “THE senior special”, with soft, cushy, and inoffensive offerings like the Park Avenue and Lucerne, there was an open spot for another car-maker to take the reigns and produce a vehicle for those who don’t care about flash or driver interest. That car-maker is Toyota, [...]
Receiving the most corporate motivation since founder Colin Chapman’s heroic time helming the Lotus brand, the British sports car company has laid down their product line-up groundwork last year at Geneva. Showing off a brand new esprit, a four-door performance car and a firm commitment to KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System), Lotus Cars revelation includes [...]
The plot thickens, as they used to say in the film noir days. There have been rumors and innuendos and the fluttering of little birds about Toyota (worlds biggest car company until Japan got drilled by an earthquake and then a tsunami and then a quadruple reactor melt-down) wanting to do something (be more than [...]
Presently the leading news story transpiring in the United States is a political battle in the nation’s capital. Attempting to concoct a working plan to control federal government spending, the ability to best manage the taxpayers’ money is placed into question. While managing government finances has proven to be a difficult and contentious [...]
Finally. Finally, finally, finally. Okay, so this is weak sauce when it comes to “performance”, but still, at least Toyota is starting to heard their Prius in a more interesting direction. Or at least a more interesting direction as far a gearhead would think. See, I’ve got nothing against hybrid cars or EVs for that [...]