New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Toyota Land Cruiser VX Limited

OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Toyota Land Cruiser VX Limited The latest incarnation of the Toyota Land Cruiser VX Limited maintains the model’s formidable off road ability, while adding to its ever-increasing on road prowess. “I know what this is!” cried the smart-arsed blonde as she walked past the massive white Toyota Land Cruiser I was climbing […]

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FIRST DRIVE: Toyota Prius C

A hybrid you could actually like? Sounds impossible, but Toyota may well have managed it with its new compact hybrid, the Prius C; a new entry in the Prius family and Toyota’s first attempt to expand the Prius name into a family rather than a single model. What is it? Basically a smaller Prius that […]

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FIRST DRIVE: Toyota Camry

Just a Camry? That’s never actually been a bad thing… We go to the launch of the new Toyota Camry to see what exactly IS new. What is it? An all new Camry, baby! Well… kind of. Actually, make that “mostly”… While the new 7th generation Camry may sit on the previous car’s platform, it […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Toyota Highlander 2WD

I have a bit of a soft-spot for the Toyota Highlander. I always though it handled quite well for such a comfortable big SUV, the engine had a nice snarl to it and always had a decent amount of grunt where ever you needed it, it was comfortable, well-built and handsome. Oh, and there was […]

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ROAD TEST: Toyota Blade Master

The formula of taking a big engine and jamming it into a small car is a time-honoured way of getting performance, leading to the creation of that hallowed class of pocket-sized performance cars, the Hot Hatch. The Toyota Blade Master is, on paper, a true proponent of the hot hatch ethos; an unnecessarily large (3.5-litre) […]

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ROAD TEST: Toyota Corolla GX

What can be said about the Corolla that hasn’t really already been said before. Many, many times before. It’s a car. Not a particularly exciting car, but far from being offensively awful. Well engineered. Reliable. User friendly. Solid resale. A bit dull. Kind of like those processed, individually wrapped cheese slices really; you know what […]

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