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The V-8 is gone, the engine choices now a 2.7-liter four cylinder with 157 hp and a 4.0-liter V-6 making 270 hp, 10 more than the outgoing 4.7-liter V-8. The four-cylinder gets a four-speed automatic, the V-6 a five-speed auto.

Q Full article, Source: Car and Driver

Back before SUVs became all the rage, for decades, Toyota built a bruiser of a truck called Land Cruiser. Like its counterparts from America and the UK, the Jeep CJ/Wrangler and the Land Rover Range Rover, the Land Cruiser has always delivered the biscuits for the world’s hardcore off-roaders. Unwilling to give up its stranglehold as one of the world’s best partners in inhospitable climates, Toyota has just launched the latest iteration of its standard Land Cruiser in Europe, and it is an altogether different (and somewhat smaller) creature than the V8 model we get here in North America.

Q Full article, Source: AutoBlog

TOKYO — It is already common knowledge that the powertrain and chassis of the Toyota FT-86 showcar, the joint Toyota-Subaru project, was built by Subaru, but no word has officially been released about the automakers’ final plans for this collaboration. And not a word has been said about Subaru’s intention for this setup.

Q Full article, Source: InsideLine

Although the Toyota FT-86, freshly unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show, is billed strictly as a concept car, we’re fully expecting the rear-wheel-drive coupe to foreshadow a new production car from Toyota. The question on everyone’s lips, then, is what Toyota will call the final version when it hits the market.

Q Full article, Source: AutoBlog

Toyota’s FT-86 concept, which will be officially unveiled at next week’s Tokyo Motor Show, combines attractive, aggressive aesthetics, rear-wheel drive and a Subaru-sourced boxer engine with the hopes of injecting a bit of passion into the Japanese automaker’s admittedly sterile lineup. And since the vehicle has reportedly been a collaboration between Toyota and Subaru all along, we’ve been anxiously awaiting the Subaru-branded coupe that is sure to follow.

Q Full article, Source: AutoBlog

Washington — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Tuesday opened a preliminary investigation into corrosion on 218,000 Toyota Tundra pickups — the latest safety issue to dog the Japanese automaker.
In a notice on its Web site, NHTSA said its Office of Defects Investigation had opened a preliminary probe into corrosion linked to spare tires and brake lines on 2000 and 2001 model year Tundras.
The government said it has “received 20 reports on the subject vehicles that relate to spare tire separation and brake system failures as a result of severe frame corrosion.”

Q Full article, Source: The Detroit News

It’s always fun when advertisers take a well-known marketing cliche and turn it onside its head. Such is the case with today’s Funny Car Commercial of the Day, where we see a beautiful woman walking the streets of Norway with predictable results from the men she passes along the way.

That didn’t take long. Hot on the heels of the Toyota FT-86 Concept’s reveal, we’ve got videographic proof that ToMoCo’s new boxer-powered 2+2 is bound for the virtual circuits of Gran Turismo 5.

Source: AutoBlog