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Google and Toyota Team Up and Create Self Driving Prius

As you may have heard Google has created a self driving car, that could hit the public market as soon as 2015. Recently Google release a video in which an average looking man went out and did average looking things in his Toyota Prius.Things such as going out for lunch an picking up the dry cleaning. Sound a little boring, right? One thing we have yet to mention is that the man in the…

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Toyota Prius One of the Quickest Selling Cars in United States

The 2012 Toyota Prius c has managed to top the Edmunds Inside Line list of the "Quickest Selling Cars" in the United States. In compiling the list, Inside Line gauges the average amount of time that a new car spends on a dealership lot before finding winding up in a new owner's driveway.

Their findings? The industry-wide average time for a vehicle to spend on a lot is about 53 days. The Toyota Prius…

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Toyota Gives 100 Cars For a Good Cause

Don Ringler Toyota is helping to support their parent company for a good cause. Toyota is entering another year of "100 Cars For Good." The Japanese auto maker will award 100 cars to nonprofits.

Interested non-profit organizations submitted an entry on the causes Facebook page, out of which 500 semi-finalists were chosen. Starting in May voting will open to the public, when 5 videos a day will be featured. The daily winner will win a…

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New Toyota Model At New York Auto Show

The New York Auto Show often brings large announcements and unveiling of new models from the worlds largest auto makers - and this year is no different. While the anticipation grew stronger for the show Toyota release a tidbit of information on what they would be bringing to the Big Apple.

While Toyota didn't want to give away too much they did reveal an image of a new model they plan to unveil at the…
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2012 Prius Plug-In Finally Gets EPA Rating

With gas prices creeping closer and closer to the $5 a gallon mark, and projections for prices that high by the summer, you may be looking to save some money at the pump. And for most, this means turning to hybrid models of their favorite vehicle in order to use less gas when traveling. But today, Don Ringler Toyota is here to ask, "what stop there?"

Specifically, Toyota is launching a plug-in hybrid version of…

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Past, Present and Future of Toyota Hybrid Technologies

Toyota has quite the extensive history when it comes to creating fuel-sipping hybrid vehicles, starting with the Toyota Prius in the late 1990s. Did you know that, as President and Chief Operating Officer for Toyota North America, Yoshi Inaba, states "according to a recent study, if everyone in the U.S. drove a Prius, we could reduce our dependence on foreign oil by 70%?"1 Over the last 15 years the Prius has saved drivers…

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Toyota Goes Big - And Funny - For the Super Bowl

Toyota brought its A-game to the Super Bowl this year serving up a witty ad based on the "reinvented" 2012 Toyota Camry. The new Camry is among the many "reinvented" things in the video - including couches, children and DMVs. As the spokesman explains, Toyota couldn't stop at the new Camry; it had to reinvent several other things as well.

The funny ad spot is one of two 30-second ads that Toyota aired during the…

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Toyota Prius Plug-In Vs Chevy Volt - A Battle of the Batteries

Toyota has built a rechargeable variant of its popular Toyota Prius, and it's ready to battle against all other EV competitors, especially the Chevrolet Volt EV, which has targeted the Prius line since its inception.

Toyota asserts that the new Prius should have a higher mpg-e than the Chevy Volt (when running almost solely on battery power). As Bob Carter, Group Vice President of Toyota U.S. Sales, states, "It's still an estimate…

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Toyota Launching Six New Hybrids in 2012

Toyota recently announced that they'd be bringing six new hybrid models to the market in the 2012 model year. This doesn't include the new Toyota Prius v, upcoming Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid, or even the recently-announced Toyota Prius C. Rather, Toyota has said that their goal is to further expand its hybrid offerings.

More specifically, the Japanese automaker is claiming that two of these six new models will be released under the luxury?

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2012 Toyota Camry Impresses Consumer Reports Experts

In case you weren't aware, the 2012 Toyota Camry was recently reviewed by the experts at Consumer Reports, and to say that it fared well against their harsh critiquing process would be a real understatement. In fact, the latest redesign of the lauded mid-size sedan even drove off with the company's coveted "recommended" designation.

We know what you're thinking. This is just another accolade to add to the ever-growing list that the…

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