As the calendar turns from 2012 to 2013 and we look back at our previous predictions (some dating back to…
Toyota, Lexus & Scion Connoisseurs
Category: Brands
Rare is the car magazine that does not have a section dedicated to brief notes and comments on future vehicle…
Back in the mid-to-late 1990s, Toyota almost singlehandedly created 2 vehicle segments which would go on to become of pivotal…
Back in July 2009, this author helped break the story of Lexus’ filing of CT 200h, CT 300h and CT…
What do cars and politics have in common? All the fiery debate, finger-pointing and hand-wringing over the U.S. government/taxpayer bailout…
Another day…another report of a Toyota trademark filing. Or two of them, to be precise: NX 200t and NX 300h,…
Recently, Top Gear Philippines’ Editor-in-Chief Vernon B. Sarne (whom we were privileged to meet at the 2010 Paris Motor Show)…
On Monday 24 September, what was ostensibly the press preview for the (very limited) production version of the battery electric…
For those of us attuned to such things, one sign that a Toyota or Lexus sports car is production-bound is…
As was the case with the original December 2011 agreement between BMW and Toyota, the rumormill started abuzz several days…
No, we at Kaizen Factor were not blessed with this immense privilege. Rather, consider it a huge perk of being…
Economies of scale. Allocation of finite engineering and research & development resources. Ever-tightening low emissions and high fuel economy regulations…
Over two years ago, the first thing this author wrote for Kaizen Factor included these passages: Although Toyota President Akio…