For the first time in 20 years, a new leader has appeared in the global ranking of best-selling cars in 2023. The electric crossover Tesla Model Y is ahead of the Toyota Corolla. The new Focus2move rankings take into account data from 162 countries, which are tracked monthly. Focus2move updates...
The updated Toyota Sienna minivan is preparing to enter the Chinese market, and now the dealer has revealed the car's configuration. The changes are targeted, but they affect different aspects. The comfort aspect is the new “aircraft seats” on the second row (apparently, we are talking about ultra-comfortable “zero gravity”...
Toyota has certified the updated Avalon sedan in China. The car has not changed much in appearance, the dimensions have remained the same, but the innovation is in the engines: just as the Toyota Camry XV80 got rid of the naturally aspirated 2.5-liter engine, the Avalon exchanged it for a...
The FAW Toyota joint venture announced the start of production in China at the Chengdu plant of the latest Toyota Land Cruiser Prado 250 SUV. The photo shows the first welded body. Probably, at the moment, pilot production has been launched, but in any case, mass production will start very...
Toyota introduced the new Toyota C-HR Plug-in Hybrid 220, equipped with the advanced modular platform Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA). This concept car is designed for daily driving and offers an electric range of up to 66 km. The Toyota C-HR Plug-in Hybrid 220 is equipped with Toyota's efficient fifth-generation...
Toyota has introduced an updated version of the Yaris for the European market. The new model offers two variations of hybrid powertrains to choose from. In addition to the familiar 114 hp hybrid setup, the updated Toyota Yaris also offers a more powerful version with an engine developing 129 hp....
The Toyota Tacoma is considered one of the most reliable cars, according to various studies. However, due to welding byproducts, Toyota is forced to recall 381,199 pickup trucks from the 2022-2023 model years. The affected pickups are equipped with axles manufactured by Hino Motors Manufacturing USA, with parts welded into...
The vice president of Toyota Motor Brazil said Toyota will invest more than $2.2 billion in Brazil over the next few years. Brazil’s Vice President and Industry Minister Geraldo Alckmin said the investment would be officially announced at an event at the Toyota plant in Sorocaba, Sao Paulo state. The...
Toyota Motor, Japan’s largest automaker, has resumed operations on all production lines in the country after some were suspended in 2023 due to a scandal involving falsification of diesel engine power data provided by a contractor. The last two idle lines were restarted on Monday, March 4th. As a result,...
The joint venture GAC Toyota reported on car sales in February of this year: last month the company sold 43,271 cars. By comparison, GAC Toyota sold 71,875 vehicles in January. The drop in sales is explained by the New Year in China (and, accordingly, the decline in consumer activity during...
Toyota has introduced an incredible discount on its Mirai hydrogen sedan: in the USA the car is sold for 27 thousand dollars instead of 67 thousand dollars. But that’s not all: the buyer receives a fuel card worth 15 thousand dollars as a bonus! You can also buy a car...
Today Toyota opened pre-orders for the newest Land Cruiser Prado 250 in China, and the car became an instant hit: in just an hour, pre-orders reached 5,000. One can only imagine how many cars will be ordered in the first 24 hours. Image: ToyotaIn China, the Land Cruiser Prado 250...
Today, pre-sales of the new Toyota Land Cruiser 250 SUV have started in China. The car is offered in four trim levels with designations atypical for Toyota – UN, ALR, ADV and LUX, prices – from 65.3 to 80 thousand dollars. That is, the Land Cruiser 250 turned out to...
In just a few days, Toyota recalled more than half a million vehicles. A total of 661,663 pickup trucks and SUVs are potentially affected, with both recalls related to transmissions. The largest recall covers about 381,000 Tacoma pickups built in 2022 and 2023, according to Toyota. The company said in...
Toyota has created and began testing a new internal combustion engine that does not pollute the atmosphere, but rather cleans it. And although we are only talking about a prototype, which is far from perfect, the technology itself is interesting. Japanese engineers have installed a filter system on a hydrogen...
Focus2Move decided to determine the most popular mid-size car in the world in 2023 by analyzing data on sales of specific models in 2023 in the global market. It turned out that the most popular model was the Toyota Camry: 628,816 units of these sedans were sold last year. But...