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After Toyota's takeover of Hino Motors in 1967, the Briska one-tonne truck was sold with Toyota badging for ten months. The engine code was changed from Hino's "GR100" to "G" for these cars. [5] The engine is a 1251 cc watercooled OHV inline-four with distant Renault origins and was originally developed by Hino for their Contessa passenger car ...
The heart of the BRZ and GR86 sports cars is at the center of a new lawsuit. Toyota and Subaru have been hit with a class action suit out of New Jersey related to engine failures in the 86 twins.
The Toyota G16E engine is a 1,618 cc (98.7 cu in) straight-three engine built by Toyota under its Gazoo Racing division that was first introduced in January 2020 for the GR Yaris as a member of the Toyota Dynamic Force engine family.
It remains one of the worst vehicles Consumer Reports has ever tested. [40] The publication noted that the car took 37.5 seconds to go from 0–60 MPH, it was dangerously structurally deficient in a 30MPH crash test with a standard car, and its bumpers were "virtually useless against anything more formidable than a watermelon ", all of which ...
Last week, Toyota warned owners of about 50,000 vehicles — including certain Corolla and RAV4 models dating back to 2003 — that parts of airbags could explode, causing serious injury or death.
Like the recall, which is only a few years separated from a similar big-scale operational nightmare, Toyota's Chinese slump comes on the heels of a big problem the company hoped it had recovered from.
Toyota is not the only automobile manufacturer that has issued recalls for unintended acceleration problems. In December 2009, Consumer Reports analyzed 2008 model year NHTSA data for sudden acceleration among Toyota, Ford, Chrysler, GM, Honda, and Nissan, finding 52 complaints involving Toyota vehicles or 41% of complaints among these makes ...
Other manufacturers may modify the engine after it has left the Toyota factory but the engine still keeps the original Toyota designation. For example, Lotus added a supercharger to the 2ZZ-GE in some versions of the Lotus Elise and Exige, but the engine is still labelled 2ZZ-GE, not 2ZZ-GZE. Examples: 3S-GTE 3S – Third model in the S engine ...