Commercial Week Day Five Review: 2012 Toyota Prius v – Take Two
It’s the end of our commercial week and there’s a hybrid staring you down. No, the Prius v isn’t really a commercial vehicle, but there is a good reason it’s jammed in to this week of cargo haulers: 44...
View ArticleReview: 2012 Toyota Prius c
In the geek world we have “Moore’s law” which states the number of transistors in ICs will double every two years. In the automotive world we have the bloat law. Every generation of a vehicle will get...
View ArticleReview: 2013 Lexus ES 300h Hybrid (Video)
The ES has been Lexus’ best-selling sedan for 15 years yet the front-driver started life as something of a side-show. In 1989 the ES was a thinly veiled Camry, supposedly rushed to market because Lexus...
View ArticleReview: 2014 Lexus GS 450h
Last time TTAC looked at the Lexus GS Hybrid, Jack and I descended upon Vegas, drank too much, shared too much and one of us got purse-slapped (it wasn’t Jack). In other news, Jack found the GS a...
View ArticleSo Long, Synergy? Toyota Wants to Break from Its Hybrid Naming Tradition
Despite long, grinding years of adulthood, the word “synergy” still reminds this author of the character on the excruciatingly 1980s cartoon Jem and the Holograms, which his older sister would...
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