As per his weekly ritual, Handy Family of Dealerships Co-owner and Handy Toyota Dealer Principal Dan gives us an update on dealership happenings.  This week he talks about the new Handy Toyota dealership dig site (which is less of a dig site and more of a building at this point of course), lets us know what the next step is, and touches upon both the upcoming National Automotive Dealers Association (NADA) conference in Las Vegas this February as well as his personal plans for skiing Smuggler's Notch this weekend in the Jeffersonville, Vermont area.

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If you had to sum up what the Toyota Camry lineup stands for terms like best selling, reliable, and volume come to mind, but if you need to keep the summary in a neat, little package only one word will suffice:  safety.

Throughout its illustrious history circa 1984 the Toyota Camry has stood for safety in a way that few competitors have managed.  For 2012 the sheet metal was redesigned, the interior finagled and enhanced, and the Camry was given a new birth of sorts as a sportier, more attractive, and ultimately better selling car - and the issue of safety…

Though we have discussed interesting upcoming vehicles such as the Toyota 86, the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, the RAV4 EV, or even the compact Prius c compact hybrid vehicle, that doesn't mean Toyota Motors and Toyota Motors USA were even close to being finished unveiling new and exciting vehicles at the 2012 North American International Auto Show in our country's automotive capital Detroit, MI this past week.

So allow us at Handy Toyota of St. Albans, Vermont properly introduce a concept vehicle with a four-year completion window (and likely shorter says Toyota Motors USA president…

In today's blog, check out some details on why the Land Cruiser is in fact so unique and hard to come by, including a few reasons why you'll probably love it.  If you're already well aware of why the Land Cruiser is such a majestic SUV, check out the details page or email a sales team member.

The Toyota 4Runner is nothing short of a legend.  From its humble beginnings as the world's first "sport-utility vehicle," to the explosion of would-be copies the world has seen from every automaker under the sun, one fact remains:  the Toyota 4Runner is the king of the SUV world.  And if the 4Runner is king, the 2012 Toyota 4Runner Limited is the king of kings.

Handy Toyota of 39 South Main Street in St. Albans, VT recently scooped up a new 2012 Toyota 4Runner LTD featuring deep, jet black paint, chrome accents, step rails, alloy wheels, tan leather insides, and…

In his weekly blog, Handy Toyota Co-owner and Dealer Principal Dan Luneau gives us an update as to how the new Handy Toyota dealership building, located next door to handycars.com sister store Handy Chevrolet at 699 Highgate Road.  With the sub-concrete tasks like drains, pitch, electric components, and many other tasks coming to fruition, the floor - a tough piece of the new Handy Toyota dealership puzzle - is coming to a head.

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When it comes to the full sized truck and sport utility vehicle market, one thing is abundantly clear:  the Toyota Tundra 4WD Truck and Toyota FJ Cruiser SUV rule their respective fields.  The Tundra's available 5.7-liter V8 engine with VVTi (variable valve timing with intelligence) makes the horsepower, torque, payload, and towing champion of the last half a decade, while the emergence of…

Headlining the news in the world of hybrid cars, the Prius, diesel engines and - believe it or not - Bavarian luxury vehicles, Toyota Motors and BMW have formed an alliance for the ages in the hopes of expanding upon each company's dominance in the eco-friendly fight against gas guzzlers and high gasoline prices alike.

On the heels of President Obama's recently proposed law that calls for fleetwide fuel economy ratings of no less than 54.5 in the next few years, BMW hopes to use Toyota's excellent Hybrid Synergy Drive technologies - the lithium-ion batteries that have propelled the…

Never content with having achieved victory, Toyota Motors released news over 2011 that a full, four-car family of Prius hybrids, or Prii as you remember, were in the works.  Among these new cars sits the world renowned Prius hybrid, the first, original, and for lack of a more subtle term trendsetting hybrid, which was recently followed by the 2012 Toyota Prius v, a Prius with up to 44 miles per gallon and well over 55?