Britain’s oldest Toyota Carina E found!
We’ve tracked down the oldest British-built Toyota Carina E on the road. Read the full story here.
New Tech
In New Tech we describe some of the innovations Toyota is bringing to its range of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.
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Akio Toyoda is Autocar’s Automotive Hero 2012
Akio Toyoda, president and chief executive of Toyota, has been named Autocar’s man of the year.
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Classic Toyota 2000GT returned to former glory
We had an exclusive opportunity to see a classic Toyota 2000GT that had been lovingly restored to showroom specification.
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Toyota 2000GT is Bond’s favourite Bond car
The Toyota 2000GT has a place in the hearts of many James Bond fans, and it’s actually Daniel Craig’s favourite Bond car too.
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How old is Toyota? In 2012 it celebrated 75 years
The formation of the Toyota Motor Company in 1937 established a business that has grown to become one of the world’s most successful and respected global manufacturers.
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Toyota history: from loom to vroom
A brief Toyota history from its weaving roots to the launch of our first domestically developed passenger car, the 1955 Toyopet Crown
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How many cars has Toyota built?
In July 2012, Toyota celebrated building its 200 millionth car, a major milestone which had been 76 years in the making.
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THUMS up for Toyota as future safety systems revealed
Toyota has announced the development of four new technologies that focus on protecting pedestrians and the elderly in the event of an accident…
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Here comes the sun: Toyota’s solar switch-on
Toyota broke new ground with the installation of one of the UK’s largest solar panel ‘arrays’ at its Burnaston plant in Derbyshire. Now, the array has been officially ‘switched on’…
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Toyota embraces solar tech at UK car manufacturing home
What would you do with 4,600,000 kWh of energy? To put it into perspective, that’s about enough power to make 150 million cups of tea every year. Now, we like a good cuppa at the Toyota UK blog, but even we think it could be put to better use…
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Toyota FCHV-adv hydrogen fuel cell car in the UK
Hydrogen is often promoted as the ideal clean fuel of the future and recently we had a rare chance to see it in action when Toyota brought its FCHV-adv (Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle-advanced) to the UK for the RAC Brighton to London Future Car Challenge…
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Toyota Hilux conquers the Eyjafjallajökull volcano
Discover how scientists tracking Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano used a modified Toyota Hilux to set up monitoring equipment.
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Toyota FT-CH – a dedicated compact hybrid concept
The Toyota FT-CH, a concept car with a petrol-electric hybrid powertrain, was unveiled to the world in 2010.