TOKYO — Toyota reported Wednesday a record $8.2 billion profit for the fiscal first quarter, underlining the Japanese automaker’s resilience even amid the coronavirus pandemic. Toyota Motor Corp.’s April-June profit zoomed more than five-fold from […]
SAN DIEGO — I’m constantly amazed by people on the internet. We’ve created the most glorious communications platform the world has ever seen, and people use it to argue — with factually inaccurate statements, to […]
DETROIT — General Motors posted a healthy $2.8 billion second-quarter profit Wednesday, but its cautious outlook for the rest of the year spooked investors. The Detroit automaker made the strong profit despite a global shortage […]
SAN DIEGO — I spent the past week with one of the strangest cars I’ve ever driven. It’s the hydrogen-powered Toyota Mirai, and it might be the future, or it might be a weird research […]
SAN DIEGO — Look, I know I’m a jaded car journalist. I’ve tested and reviewed hundreds of cars, and after a while, they all begin to blur together. You know how you sometimes forget what […]
IRVINE, Calif — Glenn and Gigi Moss are impossible to dislike. I spent less than half a day with them and it’s obvious that they still love each other as much today as they did […]
SAN DIEGO — Pickup trucks have been popular in the US for decades, but for many years they were primarily work vehicles. They were tough and rugged and built to haul. When my grandfather bought […]
SAN DIEGO — I love a good crossover. And so does the rest of America, it seems: The crossover makes up more than 40 percent of the new car market, and there is a genuinely […]
DETROIT — When it was new, the window sticker price on a typical 2019 Toyota Tacoma SR double cab pickup was just under $29,000. Two years later, dealers are paying almost $1,000 more than that […]
AUSTIN, Texas — It didn’t take long in the brand new Ford Bronco before people started pointing and pulling out their smartphones to take pictures. The first one happened within 30 seconds of turning onto […]
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