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Toyota earns Consumer Reports Honor Roll's top spot

Bolstered by two segment wins in the annual Consumer Reports Top Picks survey, Toyota was the mainstream valedictorian according to CR's 2013 Car Brand Report Cards.  Buy Here Pay Here Car Lots In Indianapolis said that while Toyota didn't quite achieve the highest rating overall, it was just five points behind the brand that did-which was none other than Toyota's lux division, Lexus.

[Consumer Reports] editors were particularly impressed with the "significant…
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The future of Toyota and the Fun Vii concept car

At this past 2012 Detroit Auto Show in the automotive birthplace of the world, Toyota wowed the crowd with a new concept vehicle that will, in short, blow you away.

Toyota Motors and Toyota USA wants you to envision a world where your car is connected:  connected to networks, connected to friends, connected to other fans, and connected to dealers.  That's right, in the world of tomorrow with but a question...
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Handy Toyota's Now's the Time to Save sales event in St. Albans, VT

Every year it's the same thing:  around the Thanksgiving and late year holiday season, Toyota goes berserk... with savings.  And now, during Handy Toyota's Now's the Time to Save sales event, ending December 3, 2012, Toyota is offering stellar lease rates, financing offers, and Toyota Customer Cash back offers on many of the new 2012 and 2013 Toyota models we have at our new dealership site!

Click Read More to check out a few of the incentives leading us to believe you'll agree that now is the time, and don't forget to check out our…
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Toyota Camry earns cars.com's top "American Made Index"

Camry leads cars.com "American-made Index" - again
by Toyota in the News

Given the global nature of today's auto industry, it can be tough gauging which vehicles are the "most American," but that doesn't stop the experts at Cars.com from giving it their best shot. The website analyzes vehicles based on the percentage of domestic parts they contain, where their final assembly occurs and how many units they sell in this country…
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Driving a new 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in

A few months ago - maybe a year, I don't do well with time frames relative to the past - I was lucky enough to take a behind the scenes look at a Prius Plug-in before the first model was available to anyone, be it a dealership, pre-order customer, or an average Joe (.  This allowed me a unique position to evaluate the new technology, not from a sales point of view but rather from that of a cross between consumer and Toyota employee; naturally my job makes me far less than impartial, but at the same time I don't get…

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The 2013 Toyota Avalon will come with a hybrid component

With the release of each iteration of a vehicle, things get a little exciting.  This becomes far more true when a new vehicle - in this case the 2013 Avalon, redesigned with what both Akio Toyoda and Handy Toyota owner Dan Luneau have called the nicest Toyota design to date - includes a new hybrid powertrain, things get really neat.

Below, find the Toyota Motors press release highlighting the Toyota Avalon of 2013.

Chris Dugan
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Toyota's Summer Sale Event is heating up

Well it's almost summertime folks, and as far as we at Handy Toyota of St. Albans, VT are concerned, it's here...  Why, you ask?  Because Toyota's Summer Sales Event is here.

Let's take a look at the Toyota incentive highlights below.

Cash back offers

  • 2012 Avalon
  • 2012 Camry
  • 2012 Corolla
  • 2012 Prius Plug-in
  • 2012 RAV4
  • 2012 Tundra
  • 2012 Venza

APR financing offers

  • 2012 Avalon
  • 2012 Camry
  • 2012 Corolla
  • 2012 Prius Plug-in…
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Japan sees a Nintendo based GPS for Toyota vehicles

Video gamers rejoice - well at least if you live in Japan, speak Japanese, or plan to learn and order an overseas copy of an upcoming Nintendo 3DS game that will work in conjunction with Toyota's high end navigation systems.

For those that aren't into the video game scene, Nintendo - a name that surely rings a bell to anyone who watches even a little television - has released a new handheld or portable gaming device…

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Toyota's 100 Cars For Good campaign heats up

In 2011, Toyota initiated what you certainly remember as the "100 Cars for Good" initiative, a charitable effort to assist 100 out of hundreds of non-profit organizations around the United States get the mobility they so desperately needed and deserved.  Based on the Toyota Motors USA Facebook page and the 100CarsForGood.com website, users across the country could specify who they thought was most deserving of a new car and the winners were given their…

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Toyota continues to dominate sales charts

Toyota Motor Corp. (7203), the world's largest automaker for the past several years, has once again fought off all odds and sold the most cars in the world for the first fiscal quarter of 2012.  Toyota sales rose 18 percent to 2.49 million in the quarter allowing Toyota to retain the "world's largest automaker" title again, surpassing domestic brands.

As Jim Wiseman, Toyota's North American vice president of external affairs, explains…

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