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Showing posts with label Toyota. Show all posts
6.11.2020

Clearing A High Bar: The 2020 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Platinum AWD

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2020 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Platinum AWD. All-new cars are exciting and also fraught with peril.  If the old one was beloved, there...
6.04.2020

Ten Years After: The 2020 Toyota 4Runner 4X4 TRD PRO

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2020 Toyota 4Runner 4X4 TRD PRO. Ten years.  A decade.  A tenth of a century.  That's how long ago I wrote my first review of this g...
4.14.2020

Taking In The Desert Air: The 2020 Toyota Tacoma TRD PRO 4X4 Double Cab

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The 2020 Toyota Tacoma TRD PRO. Okay, let's address the elephant in the room.  Or the elephant trunk on the pickup truck in the driv...
2.20.2020

Sweet Spot: The 2020 Toyota 86 Hakone Edition

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The 2020 Toyota 86 Hakone Edition. There is a road in Japan called the Hakone Turnpike , a marvelous winding road with magnificent 360-d...
2.07.2020

Post-Peak: The 2020 Toyota Prius Limited

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The 2020 Toyota Prius Limited. Eight years ago, the Toyota Prius was on a roll.  Upwards of 200,000 copies sold in 2012.  Last year?  Ju...
1.27.2020

Time Machine: The 2020 Toyota Sienna SE Premium

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The 2020 Toyota Sienna SE Premium. Let's just get this out of the way right now---a minivan is not an aspirational object. It is a ...
1.06.2020

Big Green Truck: The 2020 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro CrewMax

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The 2020 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro CrewMax. If you're among the millions of people scratching their heads over the Tesla Cybertruck unve...
12.06.2019

"Good Heavens, Miss Sakomoto! You're Beautiful!": The 2020 Toyota Corolla XSE

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The 2020 Toyota Corolla XSE. About that headline. If you don't get the reference, it's from Thomas Dolby's 1983 hit "Sh...
10.21.2019

Time, Miles and Love: The 2019 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Limited Platinum AWD

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The 2019 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Limited Platinum AWD. I've said it before, I'll say it again. You don't really know if you...
7.05.2019

All Grown Up: The 2019 Toyota RAV4 Adventure AWD

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The 2019 Toyota RAV4 Adventure AWD. When Toyota's first RAV4 hit the market, it (and subsequent small SUVs such as the Honda CR-V )...
4.09.2019

Went Big. Went To Lake Tahoe: The 2019 Toyota Land Cruiser

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The 2019 Toyota Land Cruiser. If you want to gain an appreciation for a full-size, four-wheel drive SUV, drive one in a snowstorm. Tha...
2.04.2019

Revising The Mission Statement: The 2019 Toyota Avalon Touring

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The 2019 Toyota Avalon Touring. When the first Toyota Avalon arrived 24 years ago, it was summed up by a lot of observers as the Japanes...
12.21.2018

Leading With Your Rear: The 2019 Toyota Corolla Hatchback

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The 2019 Toyota Corolla Hatchback. About that headline.  It's the type of thing that, in my earliest days of committing journalism, ...
9.11.2018

Walk on the Wild(ish) Side: The 2018 Toyota Camry XSE V6

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The 2018 Toyota Camry XSE. For 35 years, Toyota's Camry has been the car that everybody bought.  What's new in 2018 is that it h...
6.19.2018

Truckin': The 2018 Toyota Tacoma TRD Offroad 4X4 Double Cab

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The 2018 Toyota Tacoma TRD Offroad 4X4 Double Cab. Gotta hand it to Toyota.  In the decade or so where the Americans got out of the m...
5.21.2018

One More Time: The 2018 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid SE AWD

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The 2018 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid SE AWD. We are, as of this writing, about three or four months away from an all-new generation of Toyota...
3.26.2018

Mini-Lexus: The 2018 Toyota RAV4 Platinum

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The 2018 Toyota RAV4 Platinum. Twenty-three years ago, Toyota began the small crossover SUV revolution in earnest with the original RAV4...
2.27.2018

A Step In The Right Direction: The 2018 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Limited Platinum AWD

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The 2018 Toyota Highlander Hybrid. Let's give credit where credit's due.  Toyota has done a great job with its mid-cycle refresh...
11.09.2017

Green With Less Beige In It: The 2018 Toyota Camry Hybrid SE

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The 2018 Toyota Camry Hybrid SE. There are very few things that haven't happened to me in 20 years of professionally reviewing cars ...
8.24.2017

American Classic: The 2017 Toyota Tundra Limited Crewmax 4X4

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The 2017 Toyota Tundra Limited Crewmax 4X4. It was just a shade more than four years ago that I wrote the first of several TireKicker re...