3 Reasons the Toyota Tundra is Epic

Motor Trend's series Dirt Every Day took out the Toyota Tundra TRD Pro in blazing Inferno orange to hit the trails and travel the country, highlighting this truck's best features.

  1. Great highway ride: that cushy off-road tuned suspension has a way of evening out potholes and smoothing out your ride.
  2. Room for all: The Tundra's CrewMax cab is roomy and comfortable, so you can bring along all your gear, or friends, or family, or really anything you want to do-- it's your truck.
  3. Off-Road prowess out of the box: Some trucks need modification to really perform…
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The Future of Safety is Here

Toyota Safety Sense is bringing the future of safety to the new Toyota lineup. Starting in 2016, models like the Land Cruiser, Prius, Prius c, Rav4, and Avalon will offer this suite of active safety features.

How it works: Safety Sense vehicles will have multiple types of sensors to detect potential frontal collisions, and will even have the ability to brake in an emergency without driver input.

Say you have a sudden medical emergency and black out behind the wheel. What would have been a disaster ends with the car braking on its own, preventing further damage.

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Toyota Wants to get You More Likes

Toyota is more than just a car company. Toyota is active on all kinds of social media, and they want to see you get more "likes" on Instagram.

Michael Trevino, of "Vampire Diaries" fame, took a pretty lame picture of a red folding chair and posted it on his Instagram.

Nobody cared.

But he thought it was cool, and Toyota decided to give that little chair a second chance by spicing it up a little.

They printed it out on a huge paper, and set it on top of a landing mat, 35 feet beneath a window. Trevino leaps through…

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Toyota Runs First Tacoma "Fun Games"

These aren't the Olympic Games, or the X-Games... these are the Fun Games.

This off-roading competition features three teams going head-to-head in games like rafting, kayaking, and various off-road challenges in three brand new Toyota Tacoma trucks.

Seems fairly standard, but there is one thing that makes the Fun Games unique.

The winner isn't the team that competes the strongest, comes in first, or endures the longest. No, the winner of The Fun Games is the team that has the most fun.

No, not in a hippie-frou-frou "everyone's a winner" way-- Toyota has brought an actual neuroscientist…

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The Toyota Mirai is Green, but It's Looking Very Blue

The new clean green fuel of the future may come from the deep blue sea.

The Toyota Mirai runs on hydrogen. Hydrogen can come from many sources, including manure. One potential source of hydrogen is from water.

The process of electrolysis separates hydrogen atoms from the water molecule by running an electric current through it. This causes some swapping around of electrons, and before you know it, hydrogen gas forms.

The great thing is, the water used by no means needs to be clean drinking water. In fact, salty water conducts electricity better than fresh water. Even lemonade could be…

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The 2016 Toyota Camry Knows How to Fight Crime

In order to catch the bad guys -- or, you know, tackle the grocery store after work -- you're gonna need the right equipment. And who says that equipment can't be stylish? Take it from crime-fighting duo Jen Rizzoli and Dr. Maura Isles, the 2016 Toyota Camry is the perfect model to get the job done, featuring a whole slew of internal technology features, like Qi-compatible wireless smartphone charging and Entune App Suite. The external style modifications, like eleven paint options and 18-in. alloy wheels with gloss black accents will keep you one step ahead of the competition -- always.

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Why a Toyota Prius Outlived Bob's Other Cars

Bob Old is a native of the UK. He drives a lot.

He likes to invest in a reliable car, and drive it into the ground. Most of his other cars failed to stay sound past 200,000 miles... which is about the "rule of thumb" cut off point for when most people replace their old cars.

Then, in 2004, Bob bought a Toyota Prius, attracted by the potential for gas savings, and Toyota's strong reputation for making reliable cars.

 

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Should You Use a Penny To Measure Your Tread Depth?

Tread depth is an important factor in deciding the stopping distance of your car, especially over wet surfaces. Just see how much farther a car with worn-down tread takes to stop compared to a car with fresh tires.

The tread depths tested were 10/32, 4/32, and 2/32 inches. Yes, all tire treads are measured in 1/32 increments. We can almost hear our middle school math teacher telling us to simply the fractions.

Now, the famous "penny method." Take a penny, and have Lincoln nose-dive into your tread. If you can still see the top of his…

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Toyota Goes for a New Kind of Test Drive


Improvement is a top priority for Toyota. The brand wants to make its vehicles the best they can possibly be. That's why it started its new project; it's a summer-long road trip across North America with the goal of finding new ways to improve Toyota vehicles. You can find out more about it in the video below.

This road trip serves as one big test drive to find out how these vehicles handle…

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