Toyota Racing Development, or TRD for short, is Toyota's in-house speed shop if you will, providing performance parts and variants of the brand's trucks, like this Tacoma TRD Sport. My first test-drive of this new generation Tacoma came last year in one of the other TRD choices – the Off-Road. I came away largely disappointed with most of my criticism directed at the anemic automatic transmission. The 2017 Tacoma is …
There are a lot of excellent small crossovers on the market with all different kinds of powertrains but if it's a hybrid you're after, well there are only a couple of players. This here is one of them - the new gas-electric Toyota RAV4. In light of the recent slump in gas prices, hybrid sales have taken a dive. But Toyota hasn’t thrown in the towel on using electric motors …
The Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid is now the all-new 2017 Prius Prime, flaunting a 133 MPGe rating, a 26% enhancement over its predecessor. Stemming from greater battery capacity and an improved hybrid system, the Prius Prime also exceeds all competitors’ fuel economy ratings in its gasoline-electric hybrid mode with an EPA-estimated 54mpg in combined driving leading to a class-leading drive range of 640 miles. For the first time in a …