All Features articles – Page 9
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Toyota Sienna
This is perhaps the most significant international production design debut of the show.
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Toyota FT-CH
Toyota chose the Detroit auto show to unveil the FT-CH concept, a compact four-passenger vehicle that was created in response to customer and dealer demand for a greater variety of hybrid choices.
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Toyota Prius V
The Prius' success for Toyota is undoubted, not just in sales terms but also in image building, much of which can be attributed to the Prius's unique design identity. While Prius III moved slightly away from the 2004 car's hugely successful design, it maintained the hallmark of what it helped ...
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ArticleNew Car: Toyota HiLux (2015)
Eighth-generation HiLux adds luxury to the car's functional brief
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ArticleDesign Development: Lexus LF-SA concept
How Lexus' tiny Geneva concept grew from an internal research projec
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Design Contest: Toyota opens forklift design competition for European students
Toyota Material Handling Europe has launched its latest design competition. Following the inaugural competition held two years ago that asked students to create a new tow tractor, the latest edition concentrates on creating "a forklift like you've never seen before."
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Nissan’s LMP1 car rethinks proportions
How do you make a the World Endurance Championship-winning Toyota TS040 and Audi R8 e-tron LMP1 cars look a bit same-same?
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Toyota Tacoma is a truck well done
Pickups are still big news in the US, with a recent resurgence in the mid-sized sector, currently led by the Chevrolet Colorado/GMC Canyon. This new Toyota Tamcoma suggests the home team might not have it all their own way, however
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The Toyota Mirai: is the most important car of the show undermined by its looks?
The Toyota Mirai represents what promises to the future of the industry in terms of power source as the first genuinely mass-produced hydrogen fuel cell car
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Motor sport makes its presence felt
With the balance sheets of most car makers now back in the black, the number of manufacturer-backed motor sport vehicles scattered around the show floor caught our eye
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Toyota GT 86/Subaru BRZ: so near yet so, so far
The Toyota GT 86/Subaru BRZ should be a knock-out – a small, light and agile coupe is surely right up everyone’s strasse
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Turn the lights down low…
The Honda exhibition wasn’t the only show stand with dim lighting – we found the same to be true at cross town rival Toyota
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Video: Tokuo Fukuichi, Toyota’s Design Chief, on the Fun-Vii concept
A younger generation disenfranchised with the automobile is a very real and troubling issue with the automobile industry in Japan. Marketers, designers and engineers are trying hard to cater to this demographic, looking for anything that will resonate with generation Y and Z
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Tokyo’s Smart Mobility City
Every automaker with an environmentally efficient vehicle was showcasing it at this year’s Smart Mobility City exhibition space
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A supermini interior battle
While there may be a sense of disappointment surrounding the Twingo’s very nicely executed but fairly conservative exterior, when you go inside the car the mood changes dramatically
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Stand size isn’t everything
The Geneva motor show doesn’t really have the space (or the inclination?) for the huge automotive temples Frankfurt seems to attract
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Toyota FT-1 channels the Supra, out-Vipers the Viper
The big surprise, or maybe really the only surprise, at Detroit this year was the unveiling of the Toyota FT-1 concept this morning at Cobo Center
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Toyota JPN Taxi is the new black (cab)
Full marks to Toyota for giving its JPN Taxi Concept prime showstand real estate alongside its other headline concepts