by Driver | Sep 8, 2020 | Car and Auto News
Team owner Stephan Papadakis’ papercraft course—as called by real-life commentator Leigh Diffey—is a little more dangerous than the full-size version, though. Your car runs the very real risk of getting smashed by a camshaft or cut in half by a band saw, plus there’s no way that maskless crowd of spark plugs is practicing proper […]
by Driver | Aug 5, 2020 | Car and Auto News
Among the many casualties of rally racing’s Group B era was Toyota’s obscure, first-gen MR2-based prototype called the 222D. Practically ready to race when the FIA put the kibosh on Group B (and its planned successor, Group S), the turbocharged, all-wheel-drive...
by Driver | Jul 9, 2020 | Car and Auto News
Scarcely two decades after Japanese industry was ravaged by the loss of World War II, the Toyota 2000GT helped put the country’s automakers on the map. It set three world records for speed and endurance, appeared as a Bond car in You Only Live Twice, and in the...
by Driver | Jul 9, 2020 | Car and Auto News
Coming first to the Japan-market Prius and Prius PHV equipped with optional smart keys, the enhanced PMACS II uses the existing PMACS system’s sensors to detect obstacles, such as walls or even glass. Reportedly, this has already allowed the system to reduce...
by Driver | Jun 23, 2020 | Car and Auto News
The Toyota Celica had an extremely odd evolution as a car, where often the only common thread was the name itself. It started life as a kind of smaller-scale Japanese Mustang knockoff, had a couple boxy phases in the ’70s and ’80s, then went front-wheel...
