Rare, completely original 1992 Toyota Supra MKIII, with turbo, automatic transmission, 92,000 miles, leather, and removable roof panel. This car has all options. The last year of this body style, the ’92 is the most sophisticated design and best of its run (according to car magazine reviews of the day). Teal blue paint is original and in excellent shape considering its 22 years in the So Cal sunshine. There is a barely noticeable ding or two in the door panel from a car door opening into it in a parking lot. And a barely noticeable abrasion mark about 6 inches long on the right front bumper that can probably be buffed out. The paint is also beginning to show signs of oxidation here and there in the clear-coat (that can also probably be buffed out). The oxidation can be seen mainly on the roof panel and rear bumper/spoiler area. The black trim around the rear lift-back glass and black paint on wiper arms shows some sun damage (see pics). Interior is very good (dash is perfect, no splits) but passenger seat (now covered) recently developed a crack and split open in the seat area. The previous owner shortened the driver floor mat, it apparently curled up and interfered with pedals but hasn’t while I’ve owned it. The rest of the interior is new car clean and all the controls/gadgets work as they should. The retractable cargo cover works and is in good shape except for some cosmetic peeling of the pigmented coating that covers a non-moving part of it. The factory CD/Tape/radio is installed (has never been out as far as I know) and everything associated with it works except the CD play head is slightly out of alignment causing one stereo channel to playback quietly relative to the other. The antenna raises and lowers as it should. The engine runs great and transmission shifts smoothly (many do not, I've heard). This car has been adult owned and driven, and has received regular maintenance since new. I have maintenance records back to year 2000. All maintenance was performed by the dealer that sold the car new until 2008 (Toyota of Cerritos, CA). All the maintenance I’ve done since then has been by either a local San Diego Toyota dealership or a long-time trusted mechanic who owns an established local repair shop. All rubber hoses and tubing replaced in 2010. Battery is about a year old. New tires around 10k miles ago. This car is reliable and tight. No rattles at all. No leaks. Drives and sounds like a new car but better because you seldom see another one on the road and it gets more compliments than any new car I’ve ever owned. I found this car in a small dealership near Los Angeles in 2008 after the original owner traded it in on a new Toyota from the dealer that sold him the Supra in 1992 (mileage was about 72,000). The dealer wholesaled it to Ray’s auto where I found it. I contacted the original owner and he told me the car’s history. The dealership that originally sold the car gave me a computer printout of the maintenance performed but their history only went back to year 2000.

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Toyota to drop regular-cab Tacoma as small pickups take another hit

Fri, 02 Aug 2013

Even as General Motors prepares to redesign its midsize pickups, the market for sub-fullsize trucks continues to shrink. The remaining competitors in the segment are the well-aged Nissan Frontier, Honda Ridgeline and Toyota Tacoma, and now Truck Trend is reporting that the latter will be dropping its regular cab model due to poor sales.
According to the article, the available configurations for the Tacoma lineup will be whittled down in 2015, which apparently spells the end for the two-door Taco. The Tacoma is currently the last truck in its class to be offered in a regular cab configuration, with the Frontier no longer offering a standard cab model and spy shots of the next-gen Chevrolet Colorado not revealing any glimpse of a short cab, either.

2014 Toyota FJ Cruiser Ultimate Edition

Thu, 10 Jul 2014

Introduced at the end of 2006, this is the last year for the Toyota FJ Cruiser, the reincarnated FJ40-series Land Cruiser that will shortly journey to Takama-ga-hara, the Plain of High Heaven. In its first model year, we drove it to SEMA and found it, shall we say, coarse. It bobbled on the freeway and droned in the cabin, its boxy interior providing four bounce-boards for unpleasant frequencies. Tall mirrors helped one work around the eclipse of vision aft of the B-pillars, but navigating traffic required forethought and technique. Its turning circle was measured in kilometers. For the first two years of its life, it needed premium gas. It may have been fun to look at, but we couldn't wait to get out of it.
That's not the case anymore, and now the FJ Cruiser is poised to join a long list of vehicles that got better and better, then got axed.
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Rod Millen to face Monster Tajima in Electric Division of Pikes Peak Hill Climb

Mon, 11 Feb 2013

The 91st running of the Pike's Peak International Hill Climb is scheduled to begin on June 30. Like last year's event, the 12.42 mile course - fully paved these days - starts at 9,390 feet elevation and doesn't stop climbing until it reaches an impressive 14,110 feet (the air is so thin up there that the FAA requires pilots to use oxygen at that altitude).
There will be an assortment of internal combustion machines racing to the summit, entries from France, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Sweden, Brazil, Canada, Great Britain, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland and Belgium, but all eyes will be on the electric showdown between Rod Millen and Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima, from Japan. 61-year-old Millen is a familiar name to Toyota racing fans, and he will be driving the Toyota TMG EV P002 (it won the Electric title last year), while Tajima will be again piloting the Monster Sport E-Runner (which was forced out of the field last year after a fire broke out).
Other entrants include Rhys Millen driving a 2013 Hyundai PM58OT and Paul Dallenbach, who will be driving Millen's Hyundai Genesis Coupe (it set the all-time speed mark last year).

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