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In a shock announcement today, and following the recent decision to close TRD (Toyota Racing Developments), Toyota has confirmed that it will not be placing a manufacturer’s entry in this year’s Australian Rally Championship.
With three manufacturers’ titles under its belt, Toyota says that it has left the door open for its rally team principal, National [...]
Toyota Australia has responded quickly to the news that its parent company is gearing up for its first loss, in more than 70 years of operation, by stating that the local operation will not be greatly affected.
The first Australian Toyota casualty of the Global Credit Crisis was TRD (Toyota Racing Developments) with Toyota announcing a [...]
Bummer: Toyota Australia’s performance arm TRD will stop building vehicles from March 31 2009, with Toyota’s top brass determining the niche brand to be unviable in these dark economic times.
TRD only managed to sell 888 vehicles during its sixteen month presence in Aussie showrooms, 537 of which were TRD Aurions and 351 being TRD Hiluxes. [...]
Toyota has notched up its first race win in the Aussie Racing Car Series, with a TRD Aurion piloted by James Ward (above) winning race three and finishing second overall for the round at the season final at Sydney’s Oran Park Raceway.
Ward was debuting Toyota’s second TRD Aurion chassis, and was joined by Toyota’s two-time [...]
TRD Team boss Neal Bates has claimed a record fourth ARC Drivers’ title while Toyota took the Manufacturers’ title at the season-ending Coffs Coast Rally held over the weekend. The win is the ninth domestic title for Toyota while Bates becomes just the third person in history to win four or more ARC Driver’s crowns.
Needing [...]
Not content with just adding extra value to the RAV4 range, Toyota has also increased the active safety and comfort of its Yaris hatch and sedan range in line with an overall model facelift.
Upgrades aside, the big news is that manual versions of the Yaris have been awarded the maximum five-star rating on the Federal [...]
Personally, I’ve never taken much notice of the Aussie Racing Cars series. The cars just don’t look serious enough to excite, but as the guys in the office often tell me, “What would you know Klosey?”
Toyota is taking it seriously, and has just announced that it will race debut the first of four TRD Aurion [...]
Following hot on the heels of our recent Aurion TRD road test dragged from The Insider’s archives comes the news that Toyota has unveiled its TRD Aurion Pro-Factory Xtreme (Pro-FX) drag car. The covers came off at Queensland’s Willowbank Raceway yesterday ahead of its debut outing at this weekend’s Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) [...]
Toyota’s new ‘tough truck’, the TRD Hilux is set to hit the streets. Toyota Australia’s TRD division has transformed Australia’s most popular ute into a performance-enhanced vehicle, a concept quite at odds with its more humble origins.
Buyers of the new TRD HiLux will be getting the keys to a truck with supercharged performance, Bilstein [...]
It would seem that the Queensland Highway Patrol have a new steed in their stable, this time in the form of Toyota’s TRD Aurion. Wearing “Heat” number plates, you could be forgiven for thinking that someone on the force has a sense of humour but it actually stands for Help Eliminate Auto Theft and doesn’t [...]
Toyota Australia has chosen to unveil their much anticipated supercharged TRD HiLux ahead of its Brisbane International Motor Show debut. Toyota has confirmed that the TRD HiLux has completed all testing and is due to begin production in the second half of February.
The TRD HiLux will be the second vehicle to come out of the [...]
Toyota’s TRD Aurion is back on sale after a dealer car suffered an engine failure recently. Rather than risk further failures, Toyota removed all TRD Aurions from sale pending an investigation into the reason for the failure.
Not used to issues as catastrophic as an engine failure Toyota did the right thing in ceasing sales – [...]
Still no word on the mysterious engine failure in one of the early Aurion TRD’s but that didn’t stop Toyota bringing a brace of Aurions including a couple of racers - along with rally ace Neil Bates. Certainly a well proportioned and handsome car if you can get past the hefty sticker price and FWD. [...]
Toyota have announced today that they have temporarily suspended further sales of its new supercharged TRD Aurion. GoAuto have reported that a Melbourne dealer salesman was driving one of the new TRD Aurions last week when the cars engine failed.
TRD have begun their investigation into the engine failure but have reportedly not yet determined the [...]
Toyota has just announced the official arrival of its new Aurion TRD. The much anticipated “hot” Aurion gives Australian Toyota fans a performance car to drool and fawn over that actually looks good. The most powerful Toyota ever sold in Australia, Toyota believes that the Aurion TRD will inject some much needed excitement into its [...]
Toyota has confirmed that the first TRD Aurions have already been ordered, with the Queensland police lining up for eleven of the supercharged V6’s for highway patrol work. We already know that the TRD Aurion is going to be quicker than even TRD were expecting, which means 235kW+ from the Eaton Twin-Vortices supercharger equipped 3.5-litre [...]
Toyota continue to steadily fuel the anticipation surrounding the pending official release of their TRD Aurion. This time the Toyota press release hints at a combined engine and supercharger package that is performing ahead of expectations.
TRD chief engineer Stephen Castles is now referring to a target power output of ‘at least’ 235kW for the 3.5-litre [...]
TRD Aurion - Losing its cool…er
As already reported on this site, Toyota and their performance car division TRD have made it clear that it is not their intention to pitch the upcoming TRD Aurion at the heavyweights from HSV and FPV.
Grrrr….when I grow up I want to be a Clubsport
An article in todays Herald Sun [...]
Whatever you do…don’t mention the FWD
It seems that Toyota are planning on pitching their upcoming TRD Aurion to the likes of Subaru and Volkswagen buyers. In fact David Buttner, Toyota’s senior executive of sales and marketing thinks if you hanker for an R32 Golf or lust after a Subaru Liberty GT Spec B then the [...]
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