The Corolla was the first Toyota built in the United States, starting in 1985, at the New United Motor Manufacturing (NUMMI) facility in Fremont, California — a joint venture with General Motors; the Chevrolet Nova was essentailly a Corolla with a GM name and stereo. Lexus luxury cars joi...
Toyota Motor Corporation, Japanese parent company of the Toyota Group. It became the largest automobile brand and manufacturer in the world for the first time in 2008, surpassing General Motors. Many of its about 1,000 subsidiary companies and affiliates are involved in the production of automobile...
taller stance of the four-wheel drive Toyota, and also featured the same styling cues. With roughly 1.5 inches of additional ground clearance versus a regular Tacoma, the PreRunner also featured skid plates, more aggressive gearing, big brakes, and the...
motors result in a combined 194 horsepower. An electronic on-demand all-wheel drive comes standard on the RAV4 Hybrid fed by an electronic continuously variable transmission. Able to travel up to 33 miles per gallon through combined city and highway driving, the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid's fuel ...
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There are a lot of them on the market. One common modification involves swapping the stock engine for a General Motors V8; Toyota’s famed powerplant lasts forever and provides decent low-end torque, but its power output is a bit feeble by modern standards....
The first commercially viable EV, the Electrobat, was patented in 1894, forming the basis of all future EV developments. By 1896 the Electrobat was faster, lighter, and more efficient than gasoline-powered competitors: it had 1.1 kilowatt (kW) motors and could function at over 20 miles per...
Henry Ford pioneered automation, but General Motors took it a quantum leap further in 1961. That's when the first-ever car-making robot started building car bodies at the GM plant in Ewing New Jersey. Photo: A modern car-welding robot at Think Tank, the museum of science in Birmingham,...
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Donald Healey was on his way to Detroit for a meeting with then Cadillac CEO Ed Cole with the aim of securing a supply of Cadillac V8 engines for his Silverstone sportscar. George Mason, the CEO of Nash, was on the return trip from a vacation in Europe where especially the early post-...