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A new-look TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team will begin its 10th season of competition when the 2026 FIA World Rally Championship gets underway with the iconic Rallye Monte-Carlo on January 22-25. After a record-breaking 2025 campaign, TGR-WRT enters this year with the goal to successfully defend its manufacturers’, drivers’ and co-drivers’ titles. Not resting on its...

The Volkswagen Group’s extensive vehicle fleet is already contributing to improved road safety today. Among other things, the vehicles use anonymized swarm data to generate high-resolution maps. This helps vehicles, for example, to maintain lane guidance on roads without lane markings. It also enables precise driving recommendations and hazard alerts, which can be refined by local weather conditions....

Domestic and overseas dealers, suppliers, partners, investors, local government officials... In December, a wide range of Toyota stakeholders came together for WORLD ARIGATO FEST.2025. Chairman Akio Toyoda explains this major yet little-known event. Source by

What needs to be done to realize zero traffic accidents? On this episode of Toyota Times Business, the theme is traffic safety. Studio guests discuss the issues that society as a whole must address in order to eliminate tragic accidents. The commentators are automotive journalist Naoto Ikeda, journalist and non-fiction author Mika...

The final episode of Toyota Times News in 2025 focused on the 2026 Hakone Ekiden, a university relay race that takes runners on a round trip between Tokyo and Hakone. Toyota has provided vehicles to support the Hakone Ekiden. For the 102nd race in 2026, 40 vehicles—battery electric (BEV), fuel cell...

“I want to thank you—from the bottom of my heart.” Chairman Akio Toyoda choked up as he spoke, prompting warm applause from the audience. He was addressing the guests at WORLD ARIGATO FEST.2025, an event held in December in Tokyo and at Fuji Speedway in Oyama, Shizuoka, that brought together dealers, partners,...

The GR Yaris MORIZO RR is a special-edition model created with Toyota Motor Corporation Chairman and Master Driver Akio Toyoda, aka Morizo, by applying insights gained through the challenge of competing as TOYOTA GAZOO ROOKIE Racing (TGRR) in the 2025 Nürburgring 24 Hours endurance race. TGR, with its core mission of making ever-better motorsports-bred cars, and ROOKIE Racing, which...

Under this intended agreement, Qualcomm Technologies would serve as Volkswagen Group’s primary tech provider for the launch of its zonal SDV architecture – developed for the Western hemisphere through Volkswagen Group’s joint venture with Rivian Automotive, Inc. – Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies (RV Tech) – providing high-performance system-on-chips (SoCs) for infotainment capabilities starting in 2027. A current...

The journey of GAZOO Racing A challenge born of humiliation TOYOTA GAZOO Racing has promoted the making of ever-better cars and the fostering of talent by taking on the challenge of competing in various motorsports categories both in Japan and abroad. GAZOO Racing traces its origins back to 2007, when Akio Toyoda (then executive vice president) competed in the Nürburgring 24...