PES: Have You Seen the Toyota Anime?
21 Aug 2012, 13:07 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We don’t think you’re really ready for this. Toyota, the same company that makes a sober and serious cars (for boring people), has made an anime, one of Japanese cartoon series. It&rs...
Michael Douglas - Not Too Pleased About His Prius?
6 Aug 2012, 09:56 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We all (should) know that movie stars and celebrities in general don’t really drive ‘green’ cars to save the planet. It is simply an image booster for them, which gets them talked-...
The Prius Solution Completely Reduces Your Carbon Footprint
3 Aug 2012, 15:34 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We must first warn you that none of this is real and the video’s purpose is to both amuse and raise eyebrows, which is exactly what The Onion is known for. They talk about a way to reduce one&...
Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Only Gets 4 Stars from NHTSA
24 Jul 2012, 13:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that extra weight really affects a car’s crash safety considerably. Apparently, the 54.5 extra kilos (120 lbs) the plug-in Toyota Prius has over the non-plug-in model have made a big ...
Wald Toyota Prius Is Hybrid Lunacy
6 Jul 2012, 08:13 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / A lot of people these days are looking at the Toyota Prius and saying “hey, I’d tune that any day”. Since the industry is all about clashing and contrast, and nothing is more contr...
Toyota US Sales Up 60% in June 2012
4 Jul 2012, 09:22 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The US auto market grew by an unexpected 22 percent in June, and perhaps the biggest gains were seen by Toyota, signaling that the days when its market share was up for grabs are over. On an unad...
Prince Albert II of Monaco Receives Europe’s 1st Prius Plug-In Hybrid
2 Jul 2012, 07:36 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco recently received the first production Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid in Europe for a two-month loan, with the new car having the potential to replace the...
Mandy Moore Gets Coffee in Her Prius
28 Jun 2012, 13:35 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Mandy Moore was recently photographed in Glendale, California, while driving her bog-standard Toyota Prius, sporting the blandest possible paint job, silver, on her way to get coffee. Sure, if s...
Toyota Prius Will Power Your House!
6 Jun 2012, 11:14 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Toyota Prius hybrid is a very appreciated ‘green’ car as it combines the Japanese maker’s build quality with a very efficient baby seal-saving hybrid system. However, Toyo...
Hybrid Sales Double in 2012 Compared to 2011
5 Jun 2012, 08:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Hybrid sales have steadily risen over the last few years, and now, thanks to the launch of the Prius V and C, Toyota’s (and overall) hybrid sales have been boosted even further. Reportedly, th...
Toyota Prius C Fails to Impress Consumer Reports
1 Jun 2012, 12:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With the Prius family now being the 3rd best selling in the world, Consumer Reports took the baby of the range for a spin. The Prius C is a small hybrid offering from Toyota which is based on the Ya...
Toyota Prius: Third Best Selling Car in the World
31 May 2012, 08:01 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Toyota has managed to crawl back onto its throne in the first quarter of 2012, as the Japanese automaker managed to outsell its rivals, General Motors and Volkswagen, both of which dethroned it in 2...
Google Self-Driving Car Law Passes California Senate
23 May 2012, 12:22 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Google’s push of its autonomous car legislation seems relentless, after legalization in Nevada, the rest of the country will probably soon follow. The bill, presented by Google, passed the Cal...
Toyota Prius Hybrid Sleeper
22 May 2012, 13:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / I’ve always wanted to own a sleeper car, it’s just the appeal of owning something that looks completely stock and then humiliating cars which are much more expensive than yours away from...
Toyota Hybrid Sales Top 4 Million
22 May 2012, 07:56 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Toyota Motor Company (TMC) has announced that that sales of their hybrid vehicles cumulated across all the brands have now reached over 4 million units as of the end of April. Back in 1997, TMC s...
Toyota Prius C and Chevrolet Malibu Eco: IIHS Top Safety Pick
17 May 2012, 13:47 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has recently offered its Top Safety Pick title to the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco, as well as to the 2012 Toyota Prius C. The 2013 Malibu followed ...
April Sales Reveal Reborn Toyota
8 May 2012, 14:55 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The king is dead, long live the king - that’s the sort of seesaw feeling we got when we read Toyota’s statement for the month of April. The Japanese automaker reported a 12 percent incre...
Toyota Promises Popular Models Will Not Be Imports
7 May 2012, 15:34 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Toyota is still a huge global automotive machine, despite having fallen from grace in 2011, the year in which natural disasters crippled production in Japan and Thailand. The company has already pla...
BMW and Toyota to Share Diesel and Hybrid Technology
28 Nov 2011, 13:03 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / In the world of clean engines, there are two sides: the petrol hybrids and the diesels, with the two constantly fighting for the public’s attention. However, it seems that the white flag could...
Toyota Solar Powered Electric Car in the Making
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Tudor Raiciu / Fully-electric cars might be eco-friendly and all that, but after you run out of juice it takes quite some time to recharge all those batteries. Just think about the Tesla Roadster recently tested b...