Toyota of Muncie

Japanese automaker, Toyota, promises to indulge drivers in a lot of new and redesigned vehicles this year. Among the many models undergoing a facelift for the 2012 model year, is none other than the Toyota Tacoma expected to hit Toyota of Muncie's showroom floors, this October.

Primarily superficial, Toyota's updates to the 2012 Tacoma will not impact the pickup's powertrain. Rather, changes are being made solely to the exterior- and interior design

We all know that Toyota is coping with below-normal production levels, these days.  As such, the Japanese automaker, has ordered non-production days, while their suppliers are recovering from this spring devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. But instead of paying employees to sit still, the Japanese auto maker has decided to pay them to help and bring support in a variety of community services.

This is how, more than a hundred Toyota employees recently became

Aiming to mobilize deserving nonprofits, Toyota Motor Company invited qualifying organizations to apply to the "100 Cars for Good" program via their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/toyota), from March 7-21. The Japanese automaker then brought in an independent panel of philanthropic and social-responsibility gurus to judge the submissions. After much deliberation, 500 finalists, representing all sectors of the nonprofit world (i.e., animal welfare, arts, education, environment, health and human services) have been chosen

Toyota is well known for the value of their vehicles and one again consumers are acknowledging this value as three Toyota models have recently earned awards from Consumer Reports magazine.

The RAV4 earned the title of "Best Value Small SUV". The ever-popular Prius hybrid was named "Top Green Car", for the eighth consecutive year. And, the Sienna minivan received the distinction of "Best Family Hauler". Bolstering their prestige even further, Toyota leads all automakers with

We're happy to report Toyota has successfully resumed production at all of its facilities in Japan, for the first time since the quake-tsunami disaster struck on March 11.  However, as the world's top automaker continues to struggle to secure approximately 150 different types of auto components, the plants will operate only at half capacity.

Even so, this comes as a welcome development for Toyota employees, car dealers, and car buyers around the world

We know the Prius has the Toyota green car. But is you remember, back in 2008 the Japanese automaker had promise to display a CNG-electric hybrid Camry at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Back then Irv Miller, Vice President, Toyota Motor Sales' U.S. division said that "With this concept, we are confirming our interest in pursuing CNG [natural gas]."¹But after that statement, we did not hear much about Natural Gas from Toyota