Toyota has announced that its Toyota and Lexus-branded vehicles will include vehicle to infrastructure technologies by 2021. The tech will be available in the US that year, and the company hopes to push communications standards for both vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V).
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The Toyota RAV4 started the compact crossover-SUV segment four generations of the vehicle ago, and now a new fifth-gen RAV4 has taken the stage at the New York International Auto Show. This new RAV4 is more robust, more capable, and smarter than any RAV4 before it.
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For the 2018 model year, Toyota added a new Adventure grade for the RAV4 crossover. The new trim point adds body clearance, ride height, and other changes to the 2018 Toyota RAV4 as a last hurrah before the small crossover undergoes its transformation into a new generation for 2019.
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Toyota is building a miniature replica of the Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit in Japan in its quest to test its cars as comprehensively as possible. In total 11 racetracks will be built on a new 650-hectare site near Nagoya with total expenditure expected to be around $2.8 billion.
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The Toyota Engineering Society has created an android that scores baskets better than professional basketball players. Named CUE, the robot reportedly uses artificial intelligence to learn to shoot better than players from Japanese B League team Alvark Tokyo.
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Toyota is signalling a return to racing with the GR Supra Racing Concept, unveiled at the Geneva International Motor Show. Based on Toyota's most iconic sports car, the GR Supra Racing Concept is the forerunner to a new Supra model, the automaker says.
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The new Toyota Proace-based Lerina camper van comes dressed up by Wellhouse Leisure, a British converter with much experience in compact camper vans. A versatile multi-use van, the Lerina can sleep and feed four on a camping holiday before switching over to six-seat people mover mode.
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A lot of money is being pumped into air taxi concepts, with the likes of Boeing, Airbus and NASA all investing heavily in such vehicles. The latest company to find themselves on the receiving end is Joby Aviation, with US$100 million in fresh funding to forge ahead with its all-electric aircraft.
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Driving a vehicle on ice usually means being careful and very slow so as not to slide or lose control. These things were completely thrown out the window on our visit to Winter Park, Colorado, for the 2018 Rocky Mountain Redline Ice Driving Adventure.
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Toyota's motorsport arm, Gazoo Racing, which is tipped to become a performance brand in its own right, has shown a Super Sport Concept at the 2018 Tokyo Auto Salon. Very few details have been released at this point, but the power of the hybrid drivetrain has been specified as 735 kW (986 hp).
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