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2018 Toyota Land Cruiser Provides Off-Road Performance

Buckle up for a new season of adventures here in Augusta, Maine when you drive home the 2018 Toyota Land Cruiser! Here at Charlie’s Toyota, we know an excellent full-size SUV when we see one, and our Toyota sales associates are eager to share several off-road and performance highlights of the 2018 Land Cruiser with you today!

Why are we so excited about the new Toyota Land Cruiser? It all starts under the model’s sleek hood, where you’ll discover an ambitious 5.7-liter V8 engine.

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TBT: Toyota Tundra Tows the Space Shuttle

Remember Toyota's Super Bowl XLVII commercial, back in 2013? It depicted a completely unmodified Toyota Tundra towing the U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour, baffling many truck drivers who know that the light-duty pickup's tow rating is only about 10,000 pounds.

The space shuttle? It weighs 292,000 pounds.

It wasn't a trick, or even a gimmick! The Toyota Tundra was serving a very real, vital purpose in transporting the retiring shuttle to its final home on display at the California Science Center.

See, the massive spacecraft made the majority of its voyage through the streets of…

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How Toyota Supports American Manufacturing

Ever since the early 2000's, the American manufacturing industry has been dwindling, to the chagrin of the middle class. It's simply cheaper, in today's global economy, to outsource labor elsewhere. Even the Detroit-based automakers that still assemble many of their models domestically are building them with parts manufactured abroad.

So how do you make an informed decision to support American jobs?

 

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What Do Toyota & Tesla Have in Common, According to the MIT Tech Review?

While both Tesla and Toyota have their hands in creating electrified, eco-friendly vehicles, Tesla Motors is all flash and sporty handling, while Toyota is profoundly practical. So what do these two distinctly different automakers have in common?

Both were named on the 50 Smartest Companies of 2016 list by the MIT Technology Review.

The Tech Review noted Toyota for its work creating the World Green Car of 2016, the...

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Beauty in Motion: Toyota Prius Aerodynamics

High fuel efficiency is a wonderful thing and many factors go into making those miles-per-gallon numbers go up. One of those factors is how aerodynamic the vehicle is and, when it comes to the engineers at our favorite Japanese automaker, they worked wonders with the 2016 Toyota Prius. While it's not easy to simply show how the aerodynamics work in a traditional sense, the automaker came up with a method using a piano and lights to truly wow you while also educating. Take a look below, click and drag on the video to see in full 360 degrees, and…

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Toyota Helps Species Threatened with Extinction by Partnering with IUCN

The Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050 launched last October, as a series of goals and challenges to help reduce the impact of automobiles on the planet's health.

"When tackling threats to the global environment, it is important to act early and boldly with concrete steps that will make a difference in people’s lives," said Didier Leroy, Executive Vice President of Toyota Motor Corporation. "We did it in 1997

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