When it comes to finding the Best Cars for Families, the Toyota family is a good place to start. After all, according to a rigorous study by U.S. News & World Report, both the Toyota Prius and Toyota Highlander Hybrid are the best in their segments for meeting the needs of today’s families. More specifically, the annual awards are presented to the vehicles with “the best combination of quality, space and family-friendly features” within their size categories.
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Toyota’s thoroughly redesigned RAV4 is starting its life cycle in fine fashion. According to Acton Toyota, the compact crossover earned a 5.1 percent sales increase last month, delivering 13,329 units to achieve its highest February volume ever. The RAV4 nameplate has been a leading player in this country for nearly 20 years, ever since Toyota pioneered the compact crossover segment in the mid-1990s.
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Bolstered by two segment wins in the annual Consumer Reports Top Picks survey, Toyota was the mainstream valedictorian according to CR’s 2013 Car Brand Report Cards. Buy Here Pay Here Car Lots In Indianapolis said that while Toyota didn’t quite achieve the highest rating overall, it was just five points behind the brand that did—which was none other than Toyota’s lux division, Lexus.
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With three segment winners and the lowest number of problems per hundred vehicles, Toyota was the No. 1 mainstream brand in the 2013 J.D. Power and Associates Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS). The annual survey evaluates consumer-reported problems in vehicles after three years of ownership to provide one of the most-watched studies of long-term dependability in the industry. (Thus, to be clear here, the VDS is looking at vehicles purchased during the 2010 model year.)
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The completely redesigned 2014 Toyota Tundra made its public debut recently at the Chicago Auto Show, becoming the first full-size pickup in America to offer high-tech amenities like a standard rearview camera system, standard Bluetooth capabilities, and an available blind-spot monitor with rear cross-traffic alert. And note: The next-generation of the award-winning Tundra was engineered in this country, designed in this country and will be built in this country, which is one of the reasons they’re so popular at Acton Toyota Dealers.
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The most hotly contested advertising event of the year is coming up and Toyota grabbed an early lead with their popular Kaley Cuoco RAV4 video. With over 6 million views after only three days on YouTube, it’s the most watched one so far.
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Even compared to vehicles that don’t run on gasoline at all—like EVs and cars powered by compressed natural gas—the Toyota Prius c is the greenest vehicle in the country. Just ask the experts at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), who put the Prius c at the very top of their Greenest Vehicles of 2013 honor roll.
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The 2013 Toyota Corolla remains one of the best-selling vehicles in the country, with more than 290,000 sales last year and a volume increase that exceeded 21 percent. According to Toyota Acton, it had more sales last year than just three other cars (one being the Toyota Camry). Yet at the same time, the compact segment has taken a huge step forward since the current generation of the Corolla first debuted. So it’s a good thing that new Corolla is about to make a quantum leap of its own, as previewed by the Toyota Furia Concept.
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AutoGuide.com launched back in 2004, but the highly regarded research resource never got around to introducing a “Car of the Year” honor before now. Of course, that could be because there hasn’t been a car like the Scion FR-S before now—and no, the Subaru BRZ doesn’t count. As AutoGuide editors point out, “It’s not just that Toyota funded the project, but that the folks at Toyota dreamed it up and carried it through. Left to its own devices, Subaru would never, ever have built this car.”
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With electronic devices becoming a bigger and bigger part of today’s driving experience, the 2013 Toyota Avalon will launch as the first vehicle in the world with Qi wireless charging technology integrated directly into the interior console. According to Salem Toyota Dealer, Avalon engineers and designers worked together to create an “ebin,” located at the bottom of the center stack, just below the climate controls.
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