The 2012 New York International Auto Show took over the Big Apple recently, and we're still left speechless by the unveiling of the 2013 Toyota Avalon. Though the current 2012 Toyota Avalon is certainly impressive, the 2013 model is possibly even more so. The all-new Avalon premium mid-size sedan is now more well-appointed than ever before, and it showcases a much sleeker design, too.

We have some bad news, Toyota racing fans. The Japanese auto brand has announced its innovative Toyota Hybrid Le Mans Racer will be missing its debut competition due to a crash during testing. Though the Toyota TS030 Hybrid race car was set to make its debut at the Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps race on May 5^th, it is currently in no condition to do so.

There's a new, smaller member of the Prius family, and it's named the 2012 Toyota Prius c hybrid. The Prius c recently made its debut, and its sales have already taken off. As Toyota explains in a recent press release, "In its first three days on the market, it sold 1,201 units, making it one Toyota's fastest-selling vehicles and eclipsing Chevrolet Volt and Nissan LEAF sales for the entire month of February."¹

You may be wondering how it could be possible for Toyota to become more reliable. After all, the brand is known as one of the most trustworthy brands on the market and is often recognized as making vehicles that follow this philosophy. However, the Japanese automaker has discovered a way to improve itself even more by joining forces with the Trusted Computing Group. This company will aid Toyota by providing higher reliability for its in-vehicle networks and electronic systems. With the these type of features becoming more and more important, it's best to be certain that technologies keep functioning…

For the first time in a long time, Toyota fell short of being the world's largest automaker in 2011, but the company doesn't plan to let that happen again. Toyota is targeting record sales throughout the entire Toyota Group for 2012. In fact, Toyota hopes to both its Japanese and overseas markets to grow twice as large and to sell an amazing 9.58-million vehicles worldwide (including vehicles in the Daihatsu Motor Hino Motor franchises). This would represent a 21 percent increase from 2011 sales numbers and would top the automaker's current record sales year of 9…

What happens when you combine the exciting, iconic game of Monopoly with "green," gas-sipping Toyota hybrid vehicles? The Toyota Hybrid MONOPOLY Ride Experience at the 2012 Chicago Auto Show, of course! Ok, maybe we at Sloane Toyota of Devon didn't expect such a unique construction, but we're certainly excited about it!

The low value of the U.S. dollar hasn't been beneficial to most of its citizens over the past few years, but it is good news for Japanese automaker Toyota, which is seeing extremely high yen value in its home country. Currently, Toyota sends U.S.-made vehicles to nineteen countries, but the company aims to significantly increase that volume to a total of 16,700 units. That may not sound like many vehicles here in the auto-hungry U.S., but in smaller car markets like South Korea and Saudi Arabia, that many units means a huge impact for…

The Insurance Bureau of Canada put out its annual list of "10 Most Frequently Stolen Vehicles" for  the 2012 year, and taking the top spot is the 2009 variant of the Toyota Venza.

In January of this year, Toyota formed a new division for the advancement of safety technology. Known as the Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC), the group is dedicated to learning everything they can about how automobile accidents impact drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and other vehicles in order to develop new preventative technologies. Now almost a year after forming, the group has performed 17 projects and they've partnered 12 independent institutions. So what comes next…

These days, it seems as though young people are more interested in their Smartphones and Facebook accounts than they are in getting behind the wheel of car, and who can blame them? Electronic devices and social networking sites allow them to stay connected without having to spend valuable time traveling to see their friends. Still, it's a shame that something can't be done to combine the hip features of a Smartphone with the…