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 Twenteens, became the first Japanese-built car to […]
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...
by Driver | Jun 10, 2020 | Car and Auto News
Junkyards can be pensive, sometimes melancholic places. They can make you wonder what kinds of lives cars previously lived, or what bonds people formed with them before they were scrapped. This curiosity becomes especially strong in yards dedicated to single makes, or...
by Driver | May 28, 2020 | Car and Auto News
Want to travel back in time? All it takes is a drive down U.S. Highway 101 in the heart of San Francisco at exactly the right moment. The portal is there, perched in plain sight on top of a squat two-story former warehouse in the tech capital’s expensive SoMa...
