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Toyota Land Cruiser’s record run around Oz in ‘Highway 1 to Hell’

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The fellows at Australian website CarAdvice set out their task weeks ago: drive around Australia in the quickest possible time. They dubbed the journey the ‘Highway 1 to Hell.’ Four of them left Brisbane on Monday, June 15, zeroing the speedometer in the Toyota LandCruiser Sahara they bought new for the journey. Five days, 13 hours and 43 minutes later they arrived back … [Read more...] about Toyota Land Cruiser’s record run around Oz in ‘Highway 1 to Hell’

Toyota still the most valuable brand in the automotive world

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Toyota has held on to its position as the most valuable car brand in the world, finishing ahead of BMW and Mercedes-Benz in the annual BrandZ Top 100 study by British research group Millward Brown. The top five most valuable global brands were Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook. Google was valued at US$245.5 billion, Apple at US$234.6b, Microsoft at US$143.2b, Amazon … [Read more...] about Toyota still the most valuable brand in the automotive world

Special Toyota Land Cruiser hits 370km/h – take a look at video

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A Toyota Land Cruiser with a 5.7-litre V8 petrol engine modified to deliver around 1500kW via a special race transmission has become the world’s fastest SUV. The so-called Land Speed Cruiser was built by Toyota’s Motorsports Technical Centre in the US. It sprinted to an unofficial but GPS-verified top speed of 370.18km/h (230.02mph. The previous record was 340km/h … [Read more...] about Special Toyota Land Cruiser hits 370km/h – take a look at video