Platform sharing happens a lot in the car industry, as building two or more cars on the same chassis helps reduce costs. Toyota does this a lot. Take the GA-K platform, for example. It currently underpins the Toyota Camry, RAV4,…
On Friday, Venturini Motorsports revealed that Jake Finch won’t be competing in the ARCA race at Michigan as previously scheduled. Finch is not filling well and will not be able to pilot the No. 25 Toyota in Friday night’s ARCA…
Topline The world’s richest man got much less rich Thursday as Elon Musk and President Donald Trump traded strongly worded barbs, precipitating a drop in the share price of Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla. The alliance between Elon Musk, left,…
A Tesla vehicle is parked on West Executive Avenue near the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office building in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 5, 2025. Jeff Mason | Reuters President Donald Trump is the latest Tesla owner to think…
The current Toyota Supra is approaching the end of its production run, and the Final Edition signifies the conclusion of the six-year Mk5 cycle. However, the Supra name will return to Toyota’s lineup soon. In a recent interview with MotorTrend,…
Implementation of Measures to Enhance Our Corporate Value in Connection with Toyota Industries Corporation KARIYA, JAPAN, June 3, 2025 – (JCN Newswire) – DENSO CORPORATION, a leading mobility supplier, has announced that, at the meeting of the Board of Directors…
Meanwhile, a new consumer sentiment survey finds most people want someone else to run the EV company. When Elon Musk appeared in the White House last week at a ceremony with President Donald Trump marking the end of his controversial…
The Toyota Industries Corp. logo at the company’s Nagakusa plant in Obu, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Toyota Industries slumped as much as 13% Wednesday, signaling investors’ disappointment over Toyota Group’s reported 4.7 trillion…
[This story first appeared in the May 2002 issue of MotorTrend] Although there’s no sign of their sales declining (yet), the days of conspicuously consuming, over-capacitized, underutilized sport/utilities are numbered. Should gasoline prices suddenly fall in line with those around…
The Toyota GR Corolla is even better for 2025, with more torque and a new eight-speed Direct Automatic transmission. But those may not be the only changes we see to the feisty five-door over the next few years. In an…