Although Toyota’s launch of the Lexus luxury brand just over 30 years ago was primarily centered on the flagship LS…
Toyota, Lexus & Scion Connoisseurs
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Every so often, one of the automotive industry-centric websites or organizations will publish Toyota and/or Lexus-centric predictions on the future…
A month prior to its public unveiling, Toyota North America’s Executive Vice President of Sales (and Toyota USA President of…
Trying to predict a carmaker’s future product pipeline and cadence of new-generation model releases is a fascinating sport for a…
In the course of researching and writing our previous Kaizen Factor story on recent Toyota and Scion trademark filings, we…
The previous piece this author wrote for Kaizen Factor, on the Toyota Harrier back in mid-January of this year, briefly…
The Center for Automotive Research (CAR), defined by Wikipedia as “a nonprofit research organization based in Ann Arbor, Michigan that…
A bare-bones Japanese language Toyota news release linking to a page on the Toyota Japan website promising a new Harrier…
Among this author’s many oddball geeky/nerdy automotive interests is following Motor Trend magazine’s annual Power List of the “Top 50…
Rare is the car magazine that does not have a section dedicated to brief notes and comments on future vehicle…
On Monday 24 September, what was ostensibly the press preview for the (very limited) production version of the battery electric…
Although my entry into the world of Lexus – as vehicle owner, website editor and new model reviewer – was…
Ahhh… Pavlov and the conditioned reflex. For those of you that stayed awake during high school science or psychology classes,…
To hardly anyone’s surprise, Toyota has announced yet another extension of its vehicle-production halt at all plants in Japan (including…
As we reminded you in an earlier Kaizen Factor story, poking around trademark and copyright applications and registrations filed by…