Category Archives: Toyota

[gallery link="file" ids="5808,5810,5811,5812,5813"] Overview: This week we’re looking at the Toyota Camry Hybrid 4-door sedan. It’s hard to find something wrong with one of the most popular of Toyota’s model offerings. I enjoyed the week driving the Camry once again. I looked at the first Hybrid in model year 2006 and before...

[gallery link="file" ids="5804,5805,5806,5807,5809"] Overview: This week we’re looking at yet another Toyota in a series of one of the survivors of this world wide economic melt down – the new 2009 Toyota Venza FWD 4 cylinder SUV. The survivors are a testimony to the free economic system that rewards prudence leading to profit....

[gallery link="file" ids="5796,5797,5798,5799,5800"] Overview: This week we’re looking at the 2009 Toyota Highlander Hybrid 4WD V6 SUV. Friend Mark who owns a Toyota Sequoia says the Highlander is his next car, but he doesn’t want a Hybrid. He’s been told to stay away from Hybrids. But from the research I’ve done and...

[wpsgallery] Overview: This week we’re looking at the 2009 Toyota Matrix 4-door small wagon. I’m a fan of Toyota but some of the product is not to my taste. This is one of those very capable cars that I just can’t warm up to or that I would run right out and...

[gallery link="file" ids="5783,5784,5785,5786"] Overview: This week we’re looking at the 2009 Scion xB 5-door small wagon. Like me lots of people I talked with about the Scion felt the early versions were really ugly. The sharp boxy edges just didn’t do it for most folks. Today’s more rounded edges soften the look...

[gallery link="file" ids="5776,5777,5778,5779"] Overview: This week we’re looking at the 2009 Toyota Yaris S 5-door Liftback. It’s even more important a vehicle for the times than it was when I last reviewed it two years back, and although I’m less impressed this time around it has a lot of great points that...

[gallery link="file" ids="5762,5763,5764,5765"] Overview: This week we’re looking at the 2009 Toyota Highlander 4-door 4X2 SUV. When I picked it up on my return from an assignment in Sacramento, my associate got in and said, “what a coincidence - I had already decided I was going to buy a Highlander to replace...