With the influx of electric cars, the Toyota and Lexus environmentally-friendly image halo - built up thanks to its leadership in hybrid cars - is under threat. So it’s no surprise to see this "NS4" concept appear in Detroit, and be badged with...

Motoring reviews, or rather the people who write them, have a penchant for favouring cars that are powerful and fun to drive down a twisting B-road. But let’s face facts. Most people don’t care about driving like that, and when it comes...

Let's face it, although in-car entertainment systems are getting better, they're simply no match for your smartphone.

And that must be exactly what the boffins at Toyota thought when they were developing the Touch Life system - a seven inch...

Microsoft and Toyota have announced they will partner together to allow Toyota to build a global cloud platform that will update in car telematics in Toyota hybrids and plug-in vehicles, starting in 2012.

“As the car increasingly becomes...

By 2015, Lexus is aiming to be the first wholly “hybrid” car brand. Bar the odd excursion into exotics, like its supercar LFA - which will remain powered by internal combustion alone - in the mainstream line up, you won’t be able...

The iPad has already found its way into a car dashboard just days after its official US launch.

"Doug" from Sound Man looks so excited about the concept of listening to music, watching videos, or just playing the latest games on the road, that...

The humble car is about to be catapulted into the 21st century offering drivers and passengers a multimedia experience akin to enjoying an in-flight entertainment service sat on an aeroplane.

Although only at a "proof of concept" stage at the...

The days of seeing a robot as something slow and methodical that you can outrun are soon to be over.

A video fromToyota R&D show its latest robot offering resisting a push and running you down at 7 kilometers per hour - that's 100m in just...

New Yorkers are being given the chance to work outside thanks to a little help from the sun and some technologically advanced daisies.

Toyota, in an attempt to show its green credentials for the launch of the Prius, has placed a handful of...

It's been talked up before, but the transport ministry in Japan is currently seriously considering forcing car manufacturers of near-silent hybrid vehicles to add sound to their motors.

"We have received opinions from automobile users and...

Have you always wanted to own an Aston Martin? Well, that dream might be closer to reality than you'd think.

The luxury car marque has announced it is to launch a £20k motor for the "urban traveller", a far cry from the £100k or so usually...

Sony has announced its first annual loss in 14 years, going $1 billion into the red. The company has also joined other Japanese heavyweights, like Toyota and Hitachi, in seeing a bleak outlook for the coming year.

To help turn the business...

TomTom has revealed the details of its embedded navigation solution co-developed with Renault, called "Carminat".

The Carminat TomTom, due to "open up" the embedded navigation to the "mass market", according to the GPS company, will launch...

Toyota's first ever European car with stop-start technology has gone on sale. Introduced this week, the Toyota Auris automatically cuts and restarts the engine when you stop, saving fuel and bringing down the car's carbon emissions. Like the hybrid technology...

Toyota Motor Corp and a research body of the University of Tokyo have created a household robot.

The prototype handles household chores and has been designed to combat the predicted labour shortage that's said to be due to hit as a result...