In support of Blue September, Hyundai presented a cheque for $100,000 to Australian Cancer Research Foundation and Bowel Cancer Australia representatives at a ceremony held in Sydney on Friday 9th September. This is the third consecutive year Hyundai Motor Company Australia and the Hyundai dealer network have joined forces to support Blue September. An annual [...]

AKRON, Ohio – As the first production models of the new 2012 Fisker Karma EVer (electric vehicle, extended range) hybrid are delivered to their new owners, they’ll be rolling exclusively on Goodyear’s Eagle F1 Supercar tires. The Fisker Karma EVer is the world’s first premium electric vehicle with extended range and the “embodiment of an [...]

Toyota Motors, Japan was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937 to create automobiles. Three years earlier, in 1934, while still a department of Toyota Industries, it created its first product, the Type A engine, and, in 1936, its first passenger car, the Toyota AA. Toyota Motor Corporation group companies are Toyota, Lexus, Daihatsu , Hino [...]

Toyota City, Japan, —Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) in Japan launched the “Pixis1 Space”, the first passenger minivehicle to be launched under the Toyota brand. The vehicle will be sold through more than 200 Toyota dealerships nationwide. The Pixis Space has been designed to meet the diversifying needs of car-buyers in Japan. The vehicle features sophisticated [...]

Toyota City, Japan, —Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that it will be accepting entries for the sixth Toyota Dream Car Art Contest from October 1, 2011 through January 31, 2012. The contest—part of TMC’s social contribution activities—is open to children 15 years of age and below from 80 countries and regions around the world. Held [...]

At the 2011 Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA), Hyundai is displaying two models which feature the latest technological advancements developed under the company’s Blue DriveTM sub-brand. The eco-focused Blue Drive programme is driving the company towards its target of global automotive leadership in the field of environmental sustainability. The BlueOn has made its second European [...]

Woodcliff Lake, N.J. – With seven of nine races totaling more than 26 hours of hard fought competition in this season’s 2011 American Le Mans Series now complete, BMW Team RLL heads to Laguna Seca Raceway for this weekend’s American Le Mans Monterey six-hour sports car race. The team won the first three events and [...]

New Orleans – The St. Bernard Project (SBP), one of the primary housing recovery organizations in New Orleans, announced preliminary results of the work it has been doing with Toyota to improve the efficiency of its operations and speed up the pace of post-Katrina rebuilding efforts. At the CGI America meeting in Chicago in June, [...]

At the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, Toyota peeled back the sheets to finally reveal its 2012 Prius Plug-in production model.Toyota describes the plug-in hybrid as the “greenest, most technically advanced Prius yet,” and with an electric-only driving range of 14.3 miles, fuel consumption targeted at 112 miles per gallon equivalent and CO2 emissions listed at [...]

Still reeling from the March earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters, Japan has not only been forced to deal with energy shortages, the island nation has been forced to rethink the security and capacity of its electric grid, as well as the policies necessary to make any substantive changes in it. But boosting capacity from any [...]