Archive for 'Tokyo Auto Salon'
Toyota Racing Postpones WEC Entry After Accident
Posted on 11. Apr, 2012 by admin.
Toyota Racing has had to postpone its entry in the FIA World Endurance Championship due to a testing crash last Wednesday, April 4 on the Paul Ricard circuit in south France. The TS030 Hybrid's monocoque was damaged in this incident and there is no spare available for the team to race in the second contest of the series, the WEC Six Hours of..
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2014 Toyota RAV4 Spy Shots
Posted on 10. Apr, 2012 by admin.
In late 2010, Toyota revealed its RAV4 EV prototype, which will enter limited series production in the second half of this year. It will be a short run for the regular RAV4 as well, however, as a new model is due in early 2014
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Toyota Considering World Rally Championship Return: Report
Posted on 10. Apr, 2012 by admin.
With newcomers MINI and Volkswagen set to enter the World Rally Championship in the coming years, rival automakers including some of the sport’s previous greats are now considering doing the same. One of these is Toyota, whose current CEO Akio Toyoda is keen to inject some excitement into the brand and is himself an avid race car driver...
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Toyota GT 86 With TRD Exhaust: Video
Posted on 27. Mar, 2012 by admin.
The Toyota GT 86, Subaru BRZ, and Scion FR-S triplets are some of the most anticipated new sports cars to come along in years. Not because of their tremendous performance, or even their exquisite styling, but because of their simplicity, focus, and because they're Toyotas (or Subarus, depending on how you look at it)
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2012 Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 Takes To The Track: Video
Posted on 26. Mar, 2012 by admin.
Last summer Nissan unveiled a new racing version of its GT-R supercar designed to meet FIA-GT3 regulations. That race car has since gone on to compete in the Dubai 24 Hours endurance race and later in the year will see the Nissan GT-R nameplate enter the GT300 class in Japan’s Super GT series for the first time.
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Toyota Prius Super GT Car Burns In Testing
Posted on 20. Mar, 2012 by admin.
Last December we brought you the unlikely news that the Toyota Prius had been approved for competition in Japan’s Super GT series.
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Toyota Announces 2012 Goodwood Festival Of Speed Lineup
Posted on 13. Mar, 2012 by admin.
Toyota is bringing its top performance machines from all across the globe to the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK this summer, announcing today that among the highlights will be the groundbreaking TS030 Hybrid Le Mans prototype, Lexus LFA Nurburgring endurance racer, and the GT 86 sports car. The TS030 Hybrid in particular will be...
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Nissan Sticking With LM P2 – For Now
Posted on 08. Mar, 2012 by admin.
Nissan is ruling out an LM P1 entry in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) for the 2012 season - and likely beyond - sticking with the production-based LM P2 entries that dominated last year's Intercontinental Le Mans Cup series that begat the WEC.
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2013 Toyota Venza Teased: 2012 New York Auto Show
Posted on 07. Mar, 2012 by admin.
Toyota has announced it will be refreshing the Venza crossover for the 2013 model year. The refreshed CUV will be fully revealed next month at the New York Auto Show. While the teaser shows us merely the headlight, we can already see that the updated styling closely mimics that of the new Camry and refreshed Avalon.
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Toyota FT-Bh Hybrid Concept Debuts At 2012 Geneva Motor Show
Posted on 07. Mar, 2012 by admin.
Giving hints at how the next Prius might look--and the technology it might incorporate--Toyota's FT-Bh concept makes its debut at the Geneva Motor Show. Sitting in the B-segment, similar in size to the Yaris, the FT-Bh takes Toyota's well-proven hybrid technology to a new level, with efficiency that would put it way in front of rivals.
