All Entries in the "Toyota" Category

2012 Toyota Camry – Most Popular Midsize Sedan

Good New Web-based Entune system, which integrates navigation, audio and infotainment; refined cabin; revised styling. Bad Lacks manual transmission; lifeless steering in four-cylinder models. Introduction 2012 Toyota Camry is a four-door, front wheel drive five-passenger sedan, which continues its reputation of quality, safety and reliability into an all-new seventh-generation for 2012. Although completely redesigned, it plays it safe with styling revisions, which make it look slightly tougher and suspension updates that make it slightly livelier. The 2012 Camry debuts a sophisticated, bold new design with more spacious cabin, even quieter ride and enhanced driving dynamics than before. With multimedia technology, class leading safety and fuel economy added in, the end result is best  [...]

2011 Toyota Venza – Feels More Like a Car Than a Truck

The Upside Well designed; voluptuous cabin; groundbreaking interior storage; efficient and powerful V6 engine; pleasant ride. The Downside Not that involving to drive; quite a few disappointing interior bits. Introduction 2011 Toyota Venza is a five-passenger vehicle, which combines the comfort and styling of passenger car with flexibility of sport utility vehicle for providing consumers an elegant alternative to conventional saloon. It is difficult to define, but whether you say crossover or wagon, it is a comfortable and competitive family vehicle. The company provides a broad range of available pet accessories engineered for helping you transport your furry companions in security and comfort. Its rear liftgate has low load-in height, which makes it easy to load cargo, reducing heavy  [...]

2012 Toyota Sienna – The Best Minivan for You

Good Seven to eight passenger seating capacity; potent and smooth V6 engine; offered four-wheel drive system. Bad Pricey options packages; quite a few lower grade plastics inside the cabin. Introduction 2012 Toyota Sienna is a comfortable and voluptuous minivan, which is does everything well and is easy to live with and can be loaded with convenient features. For 2012, the XLE variant of Sienna gets additional standard equipments, most notably the automatic headlamps and power passenger seat. The exterior of Sienna is quite stylish and gets projector beam halogen headlights with auto on or off feature or High Intensity Discharge headlights with manual level control, auto on or off feature or Automatic High Beam, LED stop and taillamps, color keyed rear and front underbody spoilers and  [...]

2012 Toyota Highlander – Designed To Meet Most Off-Road Driving Requirements

Good Easy to maneuver; potent yet fuel efficient V6 engine; user friendly interior with pioneering second-row seat design; impressive list of features. Bad Less overall cargo and passenger space as compared to rivals. Introduction 2012 Toyota Highlander is a midsize crossover sport utility vehicle, which is designed with legendary quality of Toyota and engineered to standout. It is a smooth performer and boasts spacious, flexible cabin along with progressive safety technologies, providing seven-passenger seating with comfort. The available flip-up rear liftgate window offers fast access to cargo area. Offered in four-wheel and front wheel drive system, the Highlander features either V6 or four-cylinder engine. It is an exceptional choice for do-all family vehicle; however several rivals  [...]

2012 Toyota Yaris – Absolutely Redesigned

First Look: The economy car segment is one of the fastest growing automotive segment, and with plethora of impressive models already in the market, automakers have become cautious about what they are offering to their consumers. The best example of this is the 2012 Toyota Yaris, if you look at the previous-generation Yaris, you’d know that it was lagging behind its rivals in terms of largely appeal. As a result of which customers starting switching over to new models offering immense usefulness, improved handling and additional refinement. Though the car was popular when it entered the market back in 2007, but still it was one of the poorest selling cars of its segment. In order to survive in the tough competitive market conditions Toyota Yaris needed to adapt to situations as soon as  [...]

2011 Toyota Sequoia – Fine Full-Size SUVs

First Look: The Toyota Sequoia enters the 10th year of production with the 2011 Toyota Sequoia and this perennial overachiever just gets better. The Sequoia got a complete redesign three years ago and since then the generous support of torque, refined road manners and internal space has kept it among one of the finest full size SUVs in the market. Also the 5.7 ltr V8 engine of the 2011 Toyota Sequoia makes it one of the fastest SUVs of its class. In our performance testing a Sequoia Limited four wheel drive sprinted from 0 to 60 mph in just around 6.7 secs with its entire 6,000 lbs frame. The pickup also comes with plethora of towing capacity, as well, with equal to 7,400 lbs when properly equipped. The base engine for the Sequoia is a 4.6 ltr V8 engine, which was launched last year and  [...]

2011 Toyota Highlander Hybrid – Striking Blend of Style, Comfort And Power

First Look: Most of the people will think we are crazy if we tell them that there is a mid size SUV with a seating capacity of seven passengers delivers an estimated fuel economy of 28 mpg and comes with maximum power of 280 horses under its hood. But this all is a reality now with the 2011 Toyota Highlander Hybrid. The impressive fuel economy of the vehicle is 2 mpg better than last years Highlander Hybrid and is around 50 percent better than the 17 or 19 combined mpg, which the normal, gas-only midsize SUVs deliver. But that is not it, there is plethora of other improvements in the 2011 Toyota Highlander Hybrid as well, and some of the noteworthy ones include a better 3.5 ltr V6 engine against the 3.3 liters, updated styling and plethora of standard features. The standard features for  [...]

2011 Toyota Matrix – Comfortable And Practical

First Look: Whether you like Justin Bieber or not, the fact that he’s popular, have his own fan base and is successful in the music world will not change. The same is the case with the tweener cars entering the automotive world in recent past. We’ve seen a lot of these, and while we won’t say that these cars are intended towards the Justin Beiber aficionados with their eyes and fingers always at the screen of their smartphones, we would like to say that these cars just don’t fit in the definition of any of the conventional body style cars that we know. This is the reason why these tweeney cars comes somewhere in between a hatchback, a crossover and a wagon. The 2011 Toyota Matrix, that we are covering here, is exactly one such car and also is the very first one of these type of cars,  [...]

Toyota Shares Jumps 5% After Getting Clean Bill Of Health From US Inquiry

There was a steep hike in the shares of Toyota seen, around 5% to be precise, as soon as the US inquiry cleared the company from the accusation of electronic flaws in company’s cars’ acceleration system. It took around 10 months for the investigation, which was ordered by the US congress to deliver the verdict. It should be known that the investigation resulted in recall of millions of Toyota vehicles in 2009 and 2010. As per the part of investigation that was published in August, many of the incidents would have taken place because of the driver error. Toyota Motors is one of the biggest car makers in the world, and they welcomed Tuesday's verdict. It should be noted that the company saw around 39% of drop in quarterly profits, raised their operating profit forecast from 380bn  [...]

Toyota Venza Review

The Toyota Venza Review reveals that the Venza brings all the handy attributes of a wagon and a crossover, and is an immensely pleasing useful form of family transportation. In addition to all this the other things that we came to know during our Toyota Venza Review was that the crossover is a spacious vehicle with highly efficient and powerful engines, also it delivers comfy ride, driving pleasing driving manner, has ample interior storage and has really superb crash-test scores. Though, there also are some negative here and the one that struck us was the fact that the vehicle doesn’t have a third row seat. In our power and performance testing segment of The 2010 Toyota Venza Review we went under the hood of the vehicle and found that the vehicle could be had with 4 or 6 cylinder  [...]

2005 Toyota Sequoia – Comfortable And Capable SUV

If you are looking for a full size SUV that has immense capability and which also is immensely comfortable, then the 2005 Toyota Sequoia surely is one option that is worth considering. Offering refined driveterain, multipurpose and contented interiors, astonishingly agile handling and Toyota’s reputation for dependability are some of the feature that accounts the immense success of Sequoia in market, and makes it a model definitely worth considering. The 2005 Toyota Sequoia was powered by a 4.7-liter V8 engine that generated maximum power of 282 horsepower and maximum torque of 325 pound-feet. The engine here was mated with a 5 speed automatic transmission, which gives pretty decent performance to the vehicle. The Sequoia gets a completely new front grille and fascia, an in-glass antenna,  [...]

Review of 2011 Toyota Prius

Saving the environment does take big efforts after all the destruction we have caused. Global warming and ozone effect artaking their toll on our bodies and minds. Car manufacturers are now coming up with such technologies so as to partially stop use of fossil fuels. Toyota has been a pioneer in this by introducing the Prius, a vehicle which combined electric and petrol power and earned the tag of the cleanest car on the earth. The 2011 Toyota Prius currently in its 3rd generation doesn’t deviate from its core principles  of fuel economy and high-technology wrapped in a futuristic four door sedan body. The Prius is the most fuel efficient gasoline car currently sold in the U.S. according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA and California Air Resources Board (CARB)  [...]

2010 Toyota Prius – Most Fuel Efficient Hybrid

First Look The last Toyota Prius became the 13th best selling vehicle in 2008. The car turned the entire automotive world inside out and changed the purchasing priorities of American consumers apparently overnight. Regardless of their automotive needs, many of the auto buyers came to Prius searching for new cars, but get trapped by the sensible body style green image and most importantly the sky-high fuel economy of Prius. As a result of which, the car that ones was considered as an automotive oddity downgraded to hemp-wearing greenies, now became one of the best sellers for the country. Now we have the all new 2010 Toyota Prius, which is poised to maintain the hybrid revolution going, but at the same time get some even more appealing features for even wider audiences. Having a quick look  [...]

2011 Toyota Avalon – Top-Notch Full-Size Sedan

First Look The 2011 Toyota Avalon belongs to the exclusive full-size sedan domain of US car makers. The full-size sedans are immensely popular with families earlier, as they offered ample space, safety, comfort and trunks of the size of their own home. This is what has kept them still the favorite of the family oriented buyers, and though the full-size sedans entering the market now might not be as large as we’ve seen them earlier, but still the cars offers equal space for passengers and their luggage’s. This becomes pretty clear with the first look at 2011 Toyota Avalon. The all new Avalon will enter the market with roomy interiors, refined ride and copious luxury features. What’s New for 2011 Toyota Avalon? The 2011 Toyota Avalon gets a complete re-styling for its fascia and  [...]