Posts from ‘Toyota’
First Spin: 2018 Toyota Camry
2018 Toyota Camry XSE
Toyota’s Camry has been the best-selling car for most of the past couple of decades, and its 2018 redesign brings it thoroughly up to date with leading class rivals. Yet it probably won’t tally the kind of sales numbers it has managed to amass in the past.
That’s not due to any failing with the new Camry itself, however. Rather, it’s a sociological thing.
The Compact SUVs of 1987
1987 Ford Bronco II
The traditional sedan is dead. Ask any product planner at any manufacturer, and he or she will tell you just that. Toyota’s RAV4 compact crossover has been outselling the brand’s Camry sedan for a while now… and the Camry had previously been America’s most-popular vehicle (that wasn’t a full-size pickup) for many years running.
Test Drive: 2017 Toyota Land Cruiser
2017 Toyota Land Cruiser in Magnetic Gray Metallic
2017 Toyota Land Cruiser
Class: Premium Large SUV
Miles driven: 744
Fuel used: 59.5 gallons
2017 Toyota Highlander in Silver Metallic
2017 Toyota Highlander Limited AWD
Class: Midsize Crossover
Miles Driven: 479
Fuel Used: 21.0
2017 Toyota Tundra Limited TRD Off-Road in “Inferno” orange
2017 Toyota Tundra Limited Double Cab TRD Off-Road
Class: Large Pickup Truck
Miles Driven: 429
Fuel Used: 33.0 gallons
2017 Toyota 4Runner TRD Off-Road in Barcelona Red
2017 Toyota 4Runner 4×4 TRD Off-Road Premium
Class: Midsize SUV
Miles Driven: 462
Fuel Used: 26.3 gallons
1966 Mercury Comet Cyclone GT
Ford is doing it wrong. The current Ford Mustang GT is the highest-performance regular-production version of the brand’s beloved pony car (outside of the track-ready Shelbys), but that’s not really what a GT is. Historically speaking, at least.
Test Drive: 2017 Toyota Yaris iA
2017 Toyota Yaris iA in Graphite
2017 Toyota Yaris iA manual
Class: Subcompact Car
Miles Driven: 481
Fuel Used: 11.5 gallons
1970 Chevrolet Impala
Robert De Niro was cruising the Boroughs of New York City long before he played a mentally ill cabbie in the 1976 Martin Scorsese classic Taxi Driver–six years before, to be exact. Taxi Driver hit theaters in 1976. De Niro, however, shows off an AMC Ambassador in this forgotten ad from way back in 1970.
1969 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser
Sometimes hindsight plays tricks on us. I have always been uncomfortable that the Talking Heads’ seminal album More Songs about Buildings and Food was available on 8-Track tape.
I associate the 1978 album with a progressive musical movement that endured through the Eighties. That fact that that same music could be purchased in a lousy, short-lived format known for premature failure is difficult for me to square.
Classic Cars
