Bouncing Red Ball

Check out Toyota’s impressive-looking Lexus Premium 2-seater Sports LF-A, Gazoo Racing’s entry into the 24 Hours Nürburgring endurance racing in Nürburg, Germany, one of the most eye-catching muscle cars on display at the recent Tokyo Auto Salon in Makuhari Messe.
I bet this thing would outrun any one of those cars in the Road Monsters of [...]

Displayed at Toyota’s booth at the Tokyo Auto Salon is their entry into the 2009 Super GT: the Corolla apr Axio, a GT300-class machine with a water-cooled 3500cc V6 engine, modified by apr.
At the presentation held at Toyota booth, Team manager/chief engineer Hiroto Kaneso who takes the helm of apr explained the reason for picking [...]

What’s a car show without girls? Not half as much fun as I soon found out after walking around the exhibition hall of the Tokyo Auto Salon 2009 in Makuhari Messe last week. Trade shows are one of the few places in Japan where you can take pictures of women you are not acquainted with [...]

After a recent spell of bad news, here’s a good one for Toyota.
The Winglet, Toyota’s personal transporter in the style of Segway, will start initial production next year, 2009. Aiming for corporate customers, Toyota will deliver the first batch of 10 Winglets to the Central Japan International Airport in Aichi Prefecture.
This early release of the [...]

“A new robot developed by the University of Tokyo and Toyota Motor Corp., able to collect the washing and move furniture for cleaning, is being touted as the first step towards a robotic domestic helper.”
“Robots have traditionally been bad at handling anything other than solid objects, but the robot named, “AR,” is able to recognize [...]