Revealed at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show, the fourth-generation RAV4 remains true to the model's mission while breaking with tradition in one very visible way.
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Revealed at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show, the fourth-generation RAV4 remains true to the model's mission while breaking with tradition in one very visible way.
Continue ReadingIn preparing the sixth iteration of the ES, Toyota didn't stray far from its winning formula and, in fact, has pushed the entry into luxury even further from its Camry-esque roots.
Continue ReadingBack in 1998, Lexus was the first luxury brand to base a sport utility vehicle on a unibody platform - in this case the Toyota Camry - and succeeded in creating a whole new type of sport utility vehicle, the crossover. Today, the RX remains the brands only crossover model as well as the only one that is also built outside of Japan at Toyota's Cambridge, Ontario, Canada assembly facility.
Continue ReadingEarlier this year Scion introduced a third-generation tC that will reach dealerships sometime this summer, so we thought it time that we finally had a look at the one preceeding it.
Continue ReadingThe xD is one of the most recent models in Toyota's youth brand as it was named as the replacement model for one of the original offerings, the xA, when it was introduced to the press during media days at the 2007 Chicago Auto Show
Continue ReadingThe Sienna was given a complete makeover for the 2011 model including all-new sheetmetal. In the process Toyota has given each body panel a new tautness of line.
Continue ReadingThe fifth generation 2011 Ford Explorer went on sale in January of that year while two years later in March of 2012 it was announced that a performance version of the model, the Explorer Sport, would go on sale later that year as a 2013 model.
Continue ReadingI understand that there are still compromises that must be made for extreme fuel efficiency, but in this instance the level of compromise is hardly justified by the slender gains in fuel economy.
Continue ReadingLike the Elantra sedan, there are a great many things I liked as well as a few things I didn't particularly care for with the Elantra Coupe. First, here's the good news.
Continue ReadingFor the better part of its life it could best be described as Japan's nicest Buick - faint praise, indeed. Truth be told, until its third re-design in 2005 an Avalon could even be had with that most American of touches - a front bench seat. But that all changed on April 5, 2012 when the 2013 Toyota Avalon made its debut at the 2012 New York Auto Show. Two months later, Toyota announced that the new Avalon would be offered with a hybrid powertrain.
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