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Toyota just surpassed an important manufacturing milestone. On Tuesday, the Japanese automaker announced its 30 millionth US-built vehicle rolled off the assembly line. The model that earned this special honor happened to be one of Toyota's most advanced vehicles, a 2021 Sienna minivan, which...

As much as fully autonomous vehicles are in the news, none of us will be commuting to work in a self-driving car for at least two decades. Meanwhile, Toyota says it will use technology, called V-2-V, in all its cars within a few years with claims it will save thousands of lives each year — as...

On a bright spring day in Amsterdam, car buffs stepped inside a blacked-out warehouse to nibble on lamb skewers and sip rhubarb cocktails courtesy of Lynk & Co., which was showing off its new hybrid SUV. What seemed like just another launch of a new vehicle was actually something more: the...

Toyota says it will start equipping models with technology to talk to other vehicles starting in 2021, as it tries to push safety communications forward. The company says most of its U.S. models should have the feature by the mid-2020s. Vehicle-to-vehicle signals can warn others of heavy...

Carmakers who’ve linked their autonomous futures to Uber Technologies Inc. could feel the effects after a self-driving car from the ride-hailing giant hit and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, on Sunday evening. Volvo Cars, which makes the vehicles that San Francisco-based Uber uses in its...

In one of the auto industry’s most closely watched surveys, Consumer Reports found that Toyota, Lexus and Kia are the top brands when it comes to reliability. And three domestic brands, Cadillac, GMC and Ram, are the worst. For the fifth consecutive year, the Consumer Reports’ survey showed...

Several weeks ago I saw the future of cars laid out by Akio Toyoda, Toyota's CEO, in a presentation at its American headquarters in Plano, Texas. He wants your Toyota to be more fun than anyone else's vehicle. So, the company is creating a car soon that will interact with your emotions at a...

The ultraconservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia has issued an order allowing women to drive, ending a long-standing policy that’s cast an unflattering light on the country’s treatment of women. It’s also a royal opportunity for global automakers eager to make further inroads into the Middle East’s...

There are estimates that as many as half a million cars were damaged from the flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey along the Texas Gulf Coast, and many people are wondering what happens to those cars now. While some believe that they will be dragged off directly to junkyards or maybe even...

As Houston residents contend with flooded homes and lost belongings in the upheaval left in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, many face another urgent priority: getting a new car. Having a vehicle is a necessity in the sprawling Texas metropolis with few public transportation options. But as many...

Turn 10 released a list of 77 Japanese cars last week that'll be included in this fall's Forza Motorsport 7. That list was suspiciously and notably free of any Toyota products—save for a Hilux AT38 Arctic Truck. In our original report, we thought that this was merely a case of "But that's not...