As the summer draws to a close and the kids are going back to school, there is still no end in sight to the high temperatures. If you’ve noticed that your vehicle’s A/C is having trouble keeping up with the rising temperatures outside, Toyota of Tampa Bay can help. Your air conditioning unit is made... 

The new Sienna offers parents all of the luxury amenities they could ever want. It’s designed for function first but still pulls off style. It might even make parenting a little easier — which is the entire purpose of minivans. Minivans in general are the single most utilitarian people hauler around. For families, it allows siblings to be separated to just out-of-arm’s reach of each other and cuts down... 

Toyota Motor Corp. is stretching out how long its new models are tested before they go into production and reducing the number of outside engineers it uses in a bid to overcome a spate of quality problems. Randy Stephens, a senior Toyota engineer based in Ann Arbor, Mich., said company executives recognize that there were quality issues with the last generation of vehicles, which were developed while the company was in a... 

Toyota and Tesla Motors announced on Friday that they had signed an agreement to jointly develop an electric version of the Toyota RAV4. The companies said they hoped to produce the car, with a Tesla powertrain, in the United States in 2012. A Toyota spokesman, John Hanson, said that other markets were being considered. The companies evaluated several other production models for possible electrification. “We looked at... 

Remember the Ford Explorer/Firestone tire debacle from a decade ago? Thousands of the ‘utes rolled-over and much of the blame fell on insufficiently inflated tires, costing the Blue Oval billions of dollars to replace the tires on just about every Explorer still left on the road. The other fallout from Explorer-gate (or Firestone-gate) was institution of the Tire Pressure Monitoring System that’s now a legal standard on every... 

Now you can see the world’s most expensive car, a 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic that sold for more than $30 million earlier this year, for yourself. The mega-expensive car is going on display at the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, Calif., about an hour’s drive north of Los Angeles. The museum, specializing in Art Deco and streamline eras cars, says the Bugatti will be on display for a limited time. Just...