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<p>Japan is continuing to recover from the horrible earthquake and tsunami that struck in March. Now, after Toyota returned many of their plants to half-time production, the company is ready to announce when full production will resume across all plants. While this is great news, unfortunately, Toyota says the plants will not resume full production until the end of this year.</p>
<p>Despite the fact that this is the longest time frame predicted…

Toyota Plans Six More Hybrids

Toyota has been trying hard to becoming the top seller of hybrid vehicles in the world. They have sold over a million Prius' since the mid 1990's.

Now comes word that they have a plan to sell one million hybrid vehicles (Prius, Camry, Highlander, etc.) a year.

Toyota has now announced their plans to introduce six new hybrid vehicles by 2012. The company has yet to revealed much in the way of details, apart?

Toyota Avalon The Comfy Cruiser

Some automakers are attempting to attract a younger market of buyers. Toyota Avalon, which has always been one of the top vehicles from the auto maker, is sticking with the older crowd. In fact, Avalon is one of the "Top 10 Cars for Seniors" this year, last year and for the past several years.

According to Kelley Blue Book ranking, the Avalon is also one of the 10 "most comfortable cars".

Buyers of the updated…

Toyota Celebrates 10 Years of Prius

The Toyota Prius was released ten years as a new type of vehicle for people in North America. The Prius made an permanent mark on the auto industry with its signature wedge shape and its hybrid/gas electric powertrain, which helped channel more innovative ideas from other auto makers. Over 1.8 million units have been sold in the world to date, with nearly 900,000 in the U.S. alone.

Nearly 900,000 people?

Toyota Camry Still Best Selling Vehicle

Toyota has equipped themselves with a wide range of dependable vehicles, from the popular truck the Tundra, to the sporty Toyota Matrix, to the luxurious Land Cruiser. Although all of these have been great sellers for Toyota, none of them have become as reliable as their number one selling vehicle.

The 2010 Toyota Camry is the top selling car from the company in the first half of 2010. Sales this calendar year of the Camry…

Toyota's Great Victory

It wasn't lost on me that this Easter weekend, a time every year when the world pauses to celebrate good over evil, it was learned that the Toyota Motor Company had an 87 percent sales increase in March over the month before and a 41 percent increase over March a year ago. That's right, the same company so brutally and unfairly bashed in Congress this winter just sold more vehicles (186,000) last…

The Fastest Man in Town

The first thing you notice about Joseph Sitienei is that he is happy, laughing or smiling all the time. So it is a safe bet that to say that if your daily commute was to actually run, on foot, the 12 or 13 miles from home to work every day, you would spend most of the day just trying to catch your breath.

But if you were "the fastest man in town," running the challenging?