Toyota has brought its Hybrid Supra HV-R to the Sydney Motor Show.  The first hybrid car to win a motor race, Toyota’s engineers report having gained valuable data from the Supra’s efforts on the track, giving the company greater insight into its ongoing hybrid projects and the future of hybrid sports cars.

The knowledge gained from [...]

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In the next few years, we are going to see some truly amazing machinery emerge from the Land of the Rising Sun - the Nissan GT-R and GT-R V-spec, the Lexus LF-A, and the Acura NSX.

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I still remember the first time I saw a photo of the Z32 Nissan 300ZX twin turbo. This was the late 80s and like most Americans that had been fed a steady diet of Detroit muscle, I didn’t even like Japanese cars. But the 300ZX was sexuality on wheels.

In the post-Regan world of faux fender [...]

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Don’t get me started on Toyota. The manufacturer that once churned out exciting cars like the budget mid-engined exotic MR2, rally-minded Toyota Celica GT-Four, horsepower-mad Supra Turbo and drift-ready AE86 is now the richest car company in the world, but has somehow managed to cull any semblance of excitement from its lineup. True, there’s the [...]

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The Toyota FT-HS or Future Toyota Hybrid Sports is not new us, but it is new to Australia and has been unveiled today in this country by Toyota Australia.

Toyota Australia’s corporate manager product planning Peter Evans is unique in his description of the FT-HS and hints at a future model whose shoes the FT-HS or [...]

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With Nissan confirming that a team of GT-R’s will be competing at next years Super GT GT500 race series in Japan, we thought this would be a good time to show you what the GT-R will be up against in Japan’s Super GT.

Lexus SC430 GT500. A front mounted V8 engine that was used in [...]

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In response to claims that the Japanese motoring giant Toyota are creating unexciting cars following the axing of the Supra, Celica and the more recent MR2, Toyota have launched a “Committee to create interesting cars”. Hot on the heels of this committee being announced comes this, the Toyota Blade Master G.

Toyota market the ‘Blade’ [...]

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The best images yet of Nissans 2008 GT-R have been taken when one turned up at last weeks Goodood Festival of Speed in the UK. Still decked out in the obligatory bra it nonetheless leaves little to the imagination and it is quite obvious that the new GT-R is an absolute stunner.

We just know that [...]

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It has been a while since we last saw some shots of the super sexy Lexus LF-A but here it is again thanks to Edmunds. These pictures from the Nurburgring clearly show in detail just what a stunner the Lexus LF-A is going to be.

Expected to make its official debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show [...]

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We won’t dwell on this for too long but we do need to break-up all of the ‘small-car’ news of the recent day or so. We all know that there is no better way to do that than ponder some good old-fashioned unsubstantiated rumours from the dark recesses of the internet.

According to he (or she) [...]

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