Goodbye Formula One – Opinion

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by Neill on November 5, 2009

24 hours on from the announcement of Toyota departing Formula One, here’s my purely personal thoughts.

I always thought F1 was a poor fit for Toyota / Lexus. Sure it’s high tech and high profile with a global TV audience of many millions, [click to continue…]

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Toyota Leaving Formula One – Official

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Toyota to pull out of Formula One, it’s true. I’m surprised, though not disappointed. Surprised because it could be seen as an admission of defeat in some circles and, or course, loss of face. Though not as big an embarassment as posting the first financial loss for many decades. In business, Toyota don’t do second [...]

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Aygo Crazy – You Need This In Your Life..

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When we were offered the chance to test the Aygo Crazy, i knew exactly where we were going to take it. Our test track has some great switchback corners perfect for flinging a pointy, short wheelbase car around and sure to make a great video. Frustratingly, our efforts to get the beast onto our test [...]

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Lexus LFA – Worth The Money?

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Is the Lexus LFA worth £320k? It could be, but there are a few things that will make it worth the ticket that I’ll cover a little later. I’ve driven most of the high -end supercars on the market, Ferrari 430, 599GTB, Gallardo, Aston DBS, Murci LP640 etc. However, I doubt I’ll get my backside [...]

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Brazilian Grand Prix Preview – Q+A with Pascal Vasselon

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Pascal Vasselon is General Manager Chassis with Toyota F1. Here’s his thoughts on the forthcoming Brazilian GP.
What are the characteristics of Interlagos?
A few years ago we used to say it was extremely bumpy and we would spend the weekend working on the suspension to absorb the bumps. But we saw in the last years that [...]

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Japanese Nostalgia Magazine

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Looks like a great website for a USA based magazine all about seventies Japanese cars. Looks like some really interesting features about driving Old School Japanese cars. Lots of Toyota content, obviously, including driving a Toyota Cressida Wagon from Seattle to LA (yes, really). Worth looking over for the really cool header graphic of the [...]

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The New Toyota Blogroll Area

Most blogs have a blog roll, or a links page. This site is built on the superb Wordpress platform and allows you to add links in the blink of an eye, but the problem is, that’s all it is. Just a link, a bit of Alt Text and a mouseover. So it’s easy to become [...]

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More on the Toyota FT-86 Concept

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Over at the Japanese car site car@nifty.com, there is masses of info about the new FT-86 Concept, sadly mostly in Japanese! However, there are a lot more pictures with some great detail shots showing some of the design elements of the car much better, so here’s some thoughts on the eye catching bits.

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The GT Coupe Is Back!

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How to Build a Corolla Wagon / Estate Drift Car

Great video here, stumbled upon it at Build Thread’s blog, showing all sorts of project car build ups.

Take a (very) rusty old ’80’s Corolla Wagon / Estate car and turn it into a 4A GE powered drifter. Loving the music.

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