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 Performance Test: 2008 Toyota Tundra TRD |
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Dec 30, 2008 - 6:32 PM - by Toyota Forum
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Filed under: Aftermarket, Trucks/Pickups, Toyota
Click above for a high-res image gallery of the Toyota Tundra TRD
We don't do much performance testing of the vehicles we review here at Autoblog, partly because we don't have the resources and also because our seat-of-the-pants-meter usually gives us the pertinent information we need about how a car (or truck, in this case) performs. There are times, however, that we do get the urge to get real, actual numbers. Take, for instance, this 2008 Toyota Tundra TRD. Last month, Motor Trend put it to the test and claimed it could muscle its way from 0 to 60 mph in just 4.4 seconds. While we have no doubt that this time could theoretically be achieved assuming unlimited amounts of traction, we called shenanigans and vowed to get our hands on the truck to record our own numbers. Fortunately, Toyota was game and... [Read More]
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The Aztek is all Toyota's fault - RV2 concept |
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Dec 28, 2008 - 3:53 PM - by Toyota Forum
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Filed under: Concept Cars, Time Warp, Toyota
click the picture above for a gallery of the Toyota RV-2 concept.
If this were a Trivial Pursuit clue: "Vehicle aimed at an active lifestyle, based on much more common machinery, offering even a camper attachment for the rear," your answer might be a confident, "Pontiac Aztek." You'd be wrong. Even setting the wayback machine for 1970-something and answering "VW Camper" would be right, but also wrong. The correct reply, of course, would be "Toyota RV-2," a vehicle that never saw the light of day much beyond a display stand after the 1972-73 Auto Show season. Granted, it's a little arcane, but the Corona-based brake shows that Toyota was, once upon a time, much hipper, and we're not talking about the surgically implanted ones that Avalon owners sport. The edgy-wedgy styling belies a rear quadrant that unfolds and deploys a tent to cover a party palace more accomodating than the two seats up front. This is the car you take tailgating.... [Read More]
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Japanese CEOs sitting out Detroit show, scale back the glitz |
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Dec 27, 2008 - 12:32 AM - by Toyota Forum
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Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Honda, Toyota
Honda and Toyota may not be joining their colleagues at Nissan, Mitsubishi and Suzuki in canceling their participation in this year's Detroit Auto Show, but they still won't be laying on the glitz and glamor that have become the mainstay of past events.
For starters, both Honda's and Toyota's CEOs won't be attending, even though the market is vital to their success. Beyond that, neither will be holding press conferences to unveil their new hybrids, simply placing the vehicles on their show stands and waiting for questions. No parties, either, as they acknowledge the economic state of the industry leaves little to celebrate this year. The automakers didn't give any specific reasons for their decision to scale things back, but sources suggest that the move was made out of deference to the difficulties faced by their rivals in Detroit.
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Toyota will debut Tundra Work Truck Package in San Diego |
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Dec 24, 2008 - 5:45 PM - by Toyota Forum
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Filed under: Car Buying, Trucks/Pickups, Toyota
Click above for high-res image gallery of the Toyota Tundra Work Truck Package
One glaring omission in the range of Tundra trim levels is a stripper model suitable for duty as a basic work truck. Toyota will change all that at this year's San Diego Auto Show (Dec. 31, 2008 to Jan. 4, 2009) when the 2010 Toyota Tundra Work Truck Package debuts. Like any good work truck, a Tundra with the Work Truck Package is decontented enough to guarantee that your employees don't enjoy the drive too much. All the chrome on the Tundra's exterior has been replaced with black plastic, including the front and rear bumpers and grille, the latter of which has been slightly revised with a two-bar design. The side view mirrors are only manually adjustable, the bench seat is upholstered in washable vinyl, the floor is rubber and the dash is all black plastic. Cruise control and remote keyless entry are also gone as standard features. Available on Regular and... [Read More]
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Despite downturn, Toyota re-commits to F1 |
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Dec 24, 2008 - 2:51 AM - by Toyota Forum
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Filed under: Motorsports, Toyota
Toyota has reiterated its commitment to F1, in spite of its first annual operating loss since 1938. Said Toyota CEO Katsuake Watanabe of Toyota's F1 budget, still the largest in F1 at $445 million, "To keep it up at the current level is extremely difficult." Yet even with the loss, the global economic mess, the belt-tightening on the corporate side, and the fact that Toyota hasn't won a race in seven years, a Toyota spokesperson said, "We don't have anything to add to the statement we made on 5 December [committing to F1 after Honda's pullout -- Ed.] because the financial results don't change anything for us in the formula one team. Our situation has not changed." The FIA has suggested that next... [Read More]
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Toyota cuts profit forecast again, declines to discuss next year's outlook |
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Dec 22, 2008 - 5:25 PM - by Toyota Forum
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Filed under: Car Buying, Trends, Toyota, Earnings/Financials
Proclaiming that the global economic crisis is "... of a critical scale that comes along once in a hundred years," Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe cut his company's forecasts to just 50 billion yen ($555M USD). That modest profit (something of a rounding error versus last fiscal year's 1.7 trillion yen) comes at a time when worldwide sales are flagging and the yen is rising.
That 50 billion yen is a long way from Toyota's first initial projection for this fiscal year (1.25 trillion yen, or $13.9B USD), illustrating just how ugly it is out there for every automaker worldwide, and even a far cry from their amended projections from just last month (550 billion yen, or $6.1B USD). Further, Toyota isn't ruling out further profit cuts before the fiscal... [Read More]
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Report: Toyobaru delayed until 2012 or later |
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Dec 22, 2008 - 2:10 PM - by Toyota Forum
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Filed under: Sports/GTs, Japan, Subaru, Toyota, Rumormill
The rumors of the sports car that Toyota and Subaru were working on have been replaced by rumors that the car has been put on hold. Earlier news had posited a rear-wheel-drive sports car with "wonderful style," based on the current Subaru Legacy platform, with a boxer engine putting out around 200 hp through a six-speed manual. Originally due in 2011, now, according to Nikkei, the car has been pushed back to at least 2012. If things get worse before they get better, we have a feeling that 2012 will also come and go without Toyota fielding another dedicated sports car entrant. So move along, folks, there's nothing to see here, please return to your Camrys and cue up Queen: another one bites the... [ | |
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Toyota dropped the teaser of teasers this morning in the form of a logo and a two sentence press release announcing the debut of a "battery electric vehicle concept" that will bow at the