6 Jun 2011, 15:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / In March of this year, Japan was hit by one of the most severe natural disasters it has ever seen and this has had a deep impact on the country’s automotive industry. This has affected product...
23 May 2011, 15:17 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / It’s taken two (and a bit) long years, too many concepts and bottles upon bottles of anti-stress pills, but it looks like the wait is almost over: Toyota (or Scion, or even both) and Subaru wi...
18 May 2011, 11:56 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The special edition Fiat 500 by Gucci is about to be promoted by one of the top 30 models of the 2000s, Russian model Natasha Poly, the Italian manufacturer announced today, as the ad campaign for t...
17 May 2011, 13:02 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Nissan’s CEO Carlos Ghosn has announced that the company plans to invest JPY 3 billion ($37 million) in order to reinforce the foundation of its most heavily damaged domestic factory after Jap...
12 Apr 2011, 14:56 UTC · By: Cosmin Voicu / Since March 11, in Tokyo, a production number of more than 500,000 vehicles has vanished from the face of the Earth due to the tsunami. This led to disaster in the country’s manufacturing sect...
17 Mar 2011, 16:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With Tokyo now being a city plagued by power outages and threatened with the prospects of nuclear radiation arriving from the damaged nuclear power plants on the northeastern coast of Japan, one of ...
14 Mar 2011, 14:51 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s largest carmaker has been hit hard by the recent earthquake, which has damaged a number of key production facilities in Japan. The strong quake has also cripple...
21 Feb 2011, 16:59 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / General Motors and Chrysler Group LLC have both decided they won’t show up at this year’s Tokyo Motor Show (scheduled to take place in December) skipping the major event for a second str...
14 Feb 2011, 14:48 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Italian carmaker Ferrari might skip the Tokyo Motor Show this year, especially because sales in the Japanese auto sector are going too well for the company. In this context, injecting money into a d...
18 Jan 2011, 17:31 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Japanese automaker Toyota has recently unveiled the iQ GRMN Racing Concept at the Tokyo Auto Salon. The model is based on the 2009 iQ GRMN limited edition, which sold out in one week. The car was de...
18 Jan 2011, 07:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The excitement caused last weekend by the Tokyo Auto Salon, the premiere after market and tuning show in Japan, is slowly beginning to fade away, but this doesn't mean there aren't still s...
17 Jan 2011, 15:43 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / This year’s Tokyo Auto Salon, held the past weekend at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan, saw no less than five tuned and modified cars from Lexus on display, aimed at showing visitors the sporti...
14 Jan 2011, 19:07 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Tokyo Auto is bringing us a lot of special goodies that come to offer more than we usually get from the standard versions. One of these cars is the Nissan Nismo GT-R RC (Racing Competition), a p...
12 Jan 2011, 13:58 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Honda will bring the TS-1X CR-Z test study model made by Honda Access Corporation, the Honda aftermarket parts and accessories specialist, to the Tokyo Auto Show this year. The event will be held fr...
28 Dec 2010, 11:07 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / A design sketch of what is rumored to be the new logo for the upcoming Toyota FT-86 sportscar has surfaced on the Internet. It clearly indicates that the future model will indeed be powered by a box...
23 Dec 2010, 11:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Announced as a major presence at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2011, which takes place in the middle of January, the Nissan Leaf Aero Style Concept shed its cloak today, presenting the world with perhaps the...
23 Dec 2010, 10:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Now that the technology allows us, why not experiment the things we are considering to buy before we actually go to the store, or dealership, as the case may be? With all the smartphones and compute...
22 Dec 2010, 16:42 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Fuel-cell powered buses have hit the congested Tokyo city streets, running a regular service along one of the city's main thoroughfares. In order to herald the arrival of the H2 buses, the city...
22 Dec 2010, 13:35 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Just after releasing the R35 GT-R, Nissan declared war to owners who would allow tuning companies to play with the vehicle. The company even threatened with a warranty void, should the vehicle be ...
21 Dec 2010, 10:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There's nothing quite like playing on your home turf... Having gotten used to impressing the world with its vehicles wherever it travels, Japanese manufacturer Nissan is preparing a special tre...