Toyota News
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It was actually introduced to the world last week, but the 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid made its official auto-show debut yesterday at the huge Frankfurt Motor Show. A large crowd of journalists from around the world crowded around the covered car, eager to see in person what so far they'd only seen in photos. And while hybrids remain a tiny share of the market in Europe--far behind the diesels that make up half of all sales in many countries--Toyota plans to use them in Europe to set itself apart from other mass-market carmakers. DON'T MISS: 2016 Toyota Prius Preview Video That was the message...
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2016 Toyota Prius Preview VideoOne of the most important new cars of the 2016 model year isn’t some 600-horsepower sports car, or a big crossover wagon. It’s the hybrid that started it all, or at least made hybrids what they are today. Recently in Las Vegas, and also at the 2015 Frankfurt Auto Show, Toyota gave the...
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Toyota Shows Second Concept For Subcompact Crossover At Frankfurt; Hybrid Model ExpectedWith sales of small crossover utility vehicles growing, not just in North America but around the world, two of the world's three largest automakers still don't have entries in the segment. One of them, Toyota, announced today at the Frankfurt Motor Show that it had plans to change that. It...
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2016 Toyota Prius: Few Details At Global Launch Of 55-MPG Hybrid (Photos)The new 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid made its debut in Las Vegas Tuesday evening, where 350 guests watched the latest model of the world's most popular hybrid car raised into the night sky at an elaborate event to mark its global launch. But "it's not just about MPG any more," according to the press...
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Car And Driver Reviews 2016 Toyota Mirai: Not A Sport Sedan, UnsurprisinglyCar and Driver reviews the 2016 Toyota Mirai, and the infrastructure that supports it.
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2016 Toyota Prius: What We Want To Know About All-New HybridNext Tuesday evening, the 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid will make its world debut in Las Vegas, kicking off what its maker calls "the next era of an icon." "We’re pulling out all of the stops for this exclusive event to celebrate the future of Prius in a truly spectacular way that will be anything...
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With the 2016 Toyota Prius scheduled to make its global debut in Las Vegas on the evening of September 8, you had to figure that photos of the car would leak out at some point. And so they have. After years of spy shots of camouflaged Prius development mules, pre-production prototypes, and test vehicles, now we can see the actual lines of the 2016 Prius. DON'T MISS: 2016 Toyota Prius: Next Hybrid Aims For 55 MPG, More Room, Better Handling (Aug 2013) The photos shown here came from a Facebook post submitted to the page for Prius Club Malaysia, which requires membership to view (via DPC Cars)...
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2016 Toyota Mirai Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Car Runs On...Leftover Lemonade? Huh?Toyota continues to claim that hydrogen for its Mirai fuel-cell car can come from just about anywhere.
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Toyota Passes 8 Million Hybrids Sold Since 1997, Still Dominates SectorToyota recently sold its 8 millionth hybrid car globally.
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2016 Toyota Prius Spy ShotsAnd here it is: the 2016 Toyota Prius. Ahead of a preview September 8 in Las Vegas, and an official debut at Frankfurt, spy photographers already found the 2016 Prius, uncloaked, in Malibu, California. ALSO SEE: Coming This Fall: The Return Of Cheap $2 Gas The Prius was widely expected to adopt...
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2016 Toyota Prius To Debut Next Month, Prior To Frankfurt ShowThe fourth-generation Toyota Prius is fast approaching. Toyota Motor Corporation has confirmed to Bloomberg that the fully redesigned 2016 Toyota Prius will be shown in Las Vegas on September 8, 2015—ahead of its anticipated debut at the Frankfurt Auto Show later next month. The last time the...
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2016 Toyota Prius Spy Video: New Hybrid In San Francisco TestingA camouflaged 2016 Toyota Prius prototype is caught testing in San Francisco.
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A 2014 Toyota Prius C owner test drives a 2015 Mitsubishi Mirage.
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Latest Toyota Prius C Dubbed IIHS Top Safety Pick After UpdatesThe 2015 Toyota Prius C gets a higher IIHS crash-test rating after safety modifications.
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Toyota Prius V Sales Incentive Soars In San Francisco, Other Hybrid Discounts TooThe Toyota Prius V gets $4,000 in discounts in San Francisco.
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Toyota Tackles Hydrogen Fueling Challenges As Mirai Launch Approaches: UPDATEDAs this autumn's launch of the 2016 Toyota Mirai fuel-cell car approaches, its maker is taking steps to ensure that the small number of initial buyers and lessees will be able to fuel up their hydrogen-powered sedans with ease. Some of the 70 or so Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell SUV drivers in Southern...
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Toyota Avalon Hybrid Discounts: Large 40-MPG Sedan Discounts RiseWith gas prices still relatively reasonable, sales of hybrid cars seem to have plateaued--and that means carmakers are boosting incentives on several models. The Toyota Avalon Hybrid has always been one of our favorites, and in recent months, incentives have risen on the three-year-old big sedan...
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Toyota: Negative On Batteries Because It Has More Experience Than Any Other MakerA Toyota executive says the company's experience with hybrid powertrains legitimizes skepticism about batteries.
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Cars with plugs have been on sale since December 2010, and a second generation will start arriving next year. But while long-range battery-electric cars--the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV and an all-new 2017 Nissan Leaf--grab attention, another vehicle on the way could be equally important. That's the second generation of the Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid. DON'T MISS: Toyota Prius Plug-In Production Endd In June; New One Coming Next Year In general, journalists dislike anonymously sourced stories. They don't let readers evaluate the source, and they offer less accountability if the information proves...
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Recall: 2012-2014 Toyota Prius V Software Update To Cure StallingThe Toyota Prius V is recalled for the second time this year.
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Toyota Prius Taxi Logs More Than 600,000 Miles; Batteries Last, Apparently (Video)An Austrian taxi driver claims to have logged 1 million kilometers in his Toyota Prius.
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Toyota Sienta Hybrid MPV (Small Minivan): Forbidden Fruit Or Bizarre Oddity?Toyota redesigns a minivan oddity for its home market.
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Signup For 2016 Toyota Mirai Fuel-Cell Sedan Starts July 20 (Californians Only)Toyota will begin accepting applications for the 2016 Mirai July 20.
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BMW Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Prototypes Now Testing, Production "Sometime After 2020"As the cost of advanced technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of vehicle travel rises, car companies have increasingly partnered to share those technologies and their costs. Now BMW has shown the first hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle prototypes from its partnership of several years with Toyota...
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