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Gavin Green on the indestructible charm of the Land Cruiser

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Gavin Green, 04 September 2012 09:00

Just back from Tanzania to watch the wildebeest migrate across the Serengeti and one of the highlights – along with the lounging lions, hyenas wandering into our camp, trumpeting elephants and stalking cheetah (not to mention numerous flights in little single-engine Cessnas from bush airstrips) – was our Toyota Land Cruiser safari vehicle. The Land Cruiser is not really understood ...

GT86: spiritual successor to Toyota’s first MR2

Greg Fountain, 18 July 2012 10:56

I climbed down into the cockpit of Toyota’s GT86 for the first time and thought for a split second I’d gone through the Stargate, emerging in the late 1980s at the wheel of my beloved MkI MR2. It put a smile on my face, I don’t mind telling you.The new car’s cabin is minimalist yet cool, with nicely tactile materials, ...

Gavin Green on the appeal of battered old cars

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Gavin Green, 16 April 2012 14:32

Every time I go to a so called 'developing' country I am reminded of the wonderful appeal of old well-used cars. India and Morocco happen to be two of my favourite destinations. One of their appeals is the horde of old cars - aged Fiats and Morrises in India, ancient Peugeots and Mercedes in Morocco - still providing loyal service ...

Subaru BRZ, Toyota GT86: not as drifty as you think

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Ben Barry, 12 April 2012 07:02

Where Audi is intent on creating cars for market segments that don’t yet exist, the Subaru BRZ/Toyota GT86 sports coupe twins do almost the opposite: they have a market segment all to themselves – the £25k, rear-wheel drive sports coupe market – because everyone else has abandoned it. In decades gone by, young tearaways would have had their pick of ...

The brake recall and our Toyota Prius hybrid

Ben Barry, 24 February 2010 09:30

So, Toyota has added the Prius to its lengthy list of cars to recall, but it’s not – as has so far been the case – an accelerator issue. No, the Prius is being recalled due to a problem with the brakes, so far reported as a momentary loss of braking while driving on rough roads. Sounds like a classic ...

What the Toyota recall means, by Gavin Green

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Gavin Green, 12 February 2010 14:00

Front page news in The Times, lead item on the BBC Nine O’Clock TV news, wake-up to it on the Today programme. A car story hasn’t received this much publicity since Top Gear’s Richard Hammond almost killed himself trying to V-max a dragster. And all because Toyota is recalling lots of cars Nobody in this country has died or even ...

Epic recall caps Toyota's annus horribilis

Tim Pollard, 01 February 2010 12:51

Who'd have thought Toyota, masters of manufacturing and pioneers of Kaizen, would suffer one of the largest recalls in recent years? A furore over sticking throttle pedals in the US is forcing Toyota to recall nearly 4 million vehicles in America, 1.8m in Europe and many more elsewhere.The root of the problem is worn accelerator pedal mechanisms which can (in ...

Driving hybrids through the snow

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Glen Waddington, 24 December 2009 10:41

Working from home as I write this. Woke, like much of the country, to a white-out. No problem, I was sensible enough to park the Toyota Prius on the main road last night. Here’s a picture of it, under its snowy blanket. Glad I parked it there because the short and gently shelving cul-de-sac that gives access to my driveway ...

Inside Toyota’s $15m driving simulator

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Phil McNamara, 24 November 2009 09:59

Toyota has let CAR inside its astonishing, $15m driving simulator, designed to research safer driving. You drive an actual Lexus LS460 around a virtual cityscape projected within a 7.1m-wide dome, which itself charges across an area the size of four tennis courts. Ten electric motors generating a combined 9387bhp power this baby. It’s Gran Turismo on the grandest scale. The ...

Why Toyota’s iQ doesn’t live up to the hype

Gavin Green, 20 March 2009 09:28

I love good small cars. A small, light, inexpensive car is the ultimate expression of the car engineer’s art. Just as the easiest car in the world to engineer is a Rolls-Royce because there are so few compromises and cost constraints – although that didn’t stop Maybach screwing it up – so the one that requires the most ingenuity, is ...

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