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Zero-emission motoring moves a step closer as UK gears up for hydrogen fuel cell cars. With the first mass-produced fuel cell vehicles (FCV) hydrogen fuel about to his the roads and plans for a network of refuelling stations, the UK is getting set for the next big thing. FCVs have …

Japanese car giant’s global hybrid vehicle sales reach new milestone in record time. By the end of September, the total number of Toyota and Lexus hybrids reached 7.053m worldwide – a rise of a million cars in just nine months. Toyota’s hybrid range is continuing to grow, with 28 different …

First Lexus NX crossover rolls off the production line in Japan. As you can see, it’s been a big day at Lexus’s Miyata plant in Japan with the official start of production ceremony for the much-hyped new NX. It’s an important car because it’s the first attempt by Toyota’s luxury …

Final design of Japanese car giant’s hydrogen fuel cell vehicle revealed. It may not look it, but this is probably the future of motoring. Toyota has released details of its landmark car – one of the first FCV’s to go into mass production. The pioneering four-door saloon will be launched …

Japanese car giant Toyota celebrates sales of 100,000 hybrids in the UK. It’s hard to believe, but Toyota launched its first generation Prius on October 19, 2000. Now, 14 years on, 100,000 Toyota hybrids have been sold in the UK. So it’s fitting that the landmark car was a British-built …

Mass production hydrogen fuel cell cars move a step closer. We’re on the verge of the next big thing in motoring. Toyota says it’s on track to bring its first hydrogen fuel cell-powered car (FCV or FCEV) to market in 2015. Building on the success it’s achieved with hybrid technology, …

First public trials of Toyota’s revolutionary i-Road electric three-wheeled “personal mobility vehicle”. Consumer testing has started in Tokyo and will run to to early June, with 10 of the single-seater vehicles taking to the city streets. Their mission – to find out how it shapes up in the cut-and-thrust of …

2014 is said to be the year of the Toyota Hybrid. The popularity of these vehicles is always increasing, but why? Firstly let’s consider these types of cars in general. Hybrid cars use more than one means of propulsion and at the moment that means combining a conventional petrol or …

2012 was a very strange year for the motor industry. Some car makers did well whilst others languished at the back of the pack. The results of the overall figures for the year are surprising. Astonishingly, sales of new cars were actually up by five percent over the previous year …

Traditionally, endurance racing has always been the cauldron of competition that has forged the future of road car technology. The gruelling struggle against both fellow competitors and the cruel mistress of reliability that is round the clock racing breeds performance – but performance that lasts. For example, dual-clutch gearboxes, disc …