2016 Toyota Prius For Sale Near Chicago With 3.5 million sold to date around the globe and deity status in California and other green municipalities like Ann Arbor, the Prius is one of the most important automobiles in history. That makes the release of the all-new 2016 model A Very Big Deal. Prius has become…
Toyota C-HR is Here At McGrath Elmhurst Toyota After several concept car teases, the Toyota C-HR has finally made its debut in production trim, appearing this week at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show. It’s Toyota’s entry into the burgeoning subcompact crossover category. The 2017 Toyota C-HR has retained the unique and edgy styling of the concept model…
Toyota’s TRD line-up could soon expand, as the RAV4 crossover might get a spicy, new version in the near future. Maybe RAV4 isn’t the first model that comes to mind when you think of Toyota Racing Development division, but neither was the Tacoma TRD Pro and yet Toyota took the wraps off the model at…
Toyota Motor Sales has reported high January auto sales. With two fewer selling days in January of 2016, sales were up 3.3 percent on a daily selling rate (DSR) basis. Total sales volume for January was 161,283 units, a decrease of 4.7 percent from January 2015 on a volume basis. Toyota division January 2016 sales…
Toyota will be the first automaker to adopt smartphone app software developed by Ford and offered to the industry at large in an effort to create a uniform way for car owners to use phone apps in their cars. Ford created an open source software called SmartDeviceLink and branded a version for itself called AppLink…
Toyota is killing its youth-oriented Scion brand after learning an important lesson: young buyers simply want Toyotas. Scion was formed in 2003 to court Generation X buyers, who didn’t like their parents’ brands and didn’t trust traditional marketing, says Bob Carter, Toyota Motor Corp.’s senior vice president of U.S. operations. It was known for its…
The FIA World Endurance Championship is universally regarded as the toughest motorsport endurance series in professional racing and, since 1923, its premiere event, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, has been the gold standard of high performance competition. Consisting of a 24 hour long race that is held on France’s Circuit de la Sarthe, which…
Toyota has found a way to allow cars to send real-time information to data-processing centers that will use it to improve mapping for self-driving cars. Toyota promises the technology, which will debut in production cars by 2020, can send onboard camera and GPS information through the cloud to data centers that patch it together for…
Sotheby’s is seeking between $800,000 and $900,000 for the gorgeous 1967 Toyota 2000 GT, the original Japanese supercar that Sean Connery’s 007 drove in You Only Live Twice. Before WWII, the cars built in Japan were mainly foreign companies setting up local manufacturing operations. Japanese companies really only tackled new cars themselves after the war,…
The Great Recession created a wide-spread fiscal plague with massive implications on the world markets, the global economy, and the livelihood of millions of individuals. Automakers like Toyota were forced to come up with new ways of doing business in order to protect their companies, while helping customers keep from falling behind on their car payments. By…
