The world is full of incurable romantics and hopeful dreamers who can’t let go of the notion that a once-torrid…
Toyota, Lexus & Scion Connoisseurs
Author: Joaquín Ruhi
My.IS‘s Canada national forum moderator k3vo has learned that, on Monday 24 November 2014, Lexus registered U.S. and Canadian trademarks…
In 1994, during Johan de Nysschen’s second year as general manager of Audi’s operations in his native South Africa, the…
In a February 2008 interview, Javier Quirós Ramos de Anaya, President of Grupo Purdy Motor (Costa Rica’s official Toyota, Lexus,…
In the mid-1950s, Xavier Quirós Oreamuno, an agricultural engineer, was managing a banana plantation in the southeast of his native…
At the Southern Automotive Media Association (SAMA)’s 27 February 2014 luncheon / short-lead press preview for the 3rd-generation Toyota Highlander,…
Back in 1992, Kazunori Yamauchi, along with a group of 7 other individuals, set out to develop the original Gran…
Toyota has just published teaser shots of their upcoming SEMA Show projects which include four contenders in their 2013 Dream…
Scion Nights is undeniably the world’s largest gathering of Scion owners and enthusiasts in one place at one time. As…
Unknown hackers have robbed Toyota of its history. Go on Toyota’s main news website, and you will only find news from April 2013 to now. More than ten years of news before April are gone. Various other parts of the server are dark, and provide an error message. One of the world’s largest global companies received a direct hit into its main communication nexus. So far, the company has not been able to recover, and it may never be able to repair all of the damage.
Once again, we proudly bring you a report – this time from China – by Bertel Schmitt. Toyota today broke…
The Center for Automotive Research (CAR), defined by Wikipedia as “a nonprofit research organization based in Ann Arbor, Michigan that…
Longtime Kaizen Factor readers are probably well aware of our deep respect for and debt of gratitude towards Asia-based, English-writing…
A bare-bones Japanese language Toyota news release linking to a page on the Toyota Japan website promising a new Harrier…
Last month, we commented on Mike Connor of Motor Trend‘s May 2013 print edition good news/bad news MT Confidential column.…