Handy Toyota

In this week's blog, Tom discusses two things:  the incredible deals happening for new Toyota vehicles including the 2012 Toyota Camry, and he discusses the long-awaited results of his trip to the 2011 Hood Cook-off.

Check out our monthly specials or Toyota incentives, or click Read More to read about Tom's trip to the cook-off this year.

The bottom line is that the desktop computer or personal computer (PC)/Mac market is dwindling.  As humanity moves along the crazy train of "I want need it now" at alarmingly quickening speeds, the days of the Jetson's-esque future and implanted mobile telephones seems further and further from science fiction and gets increasingly close to ho-hum reality.  Within a year - yes, in around 365 some odd days - mobile devices ranging from BlackBerry to Android...

Yesterday, October 17, 2011, I posted a question on Handy Toyota of St. Albans, Vermont's Facebook page that asked "what do you think of the new Entune?"  Though only three of the 800 plus of you out there answered the question, the results, lacking scientific merit or not, were disturbing to say the least.  Here were the available answers:

1. It's great!
2. Meh...
3. Not a fan
4. What's that, a new planet?

Obviously sounding...

We have been talking a lot about the upcoming 2012 Toyota Camry, the newly redesigned, sportier, and for lack of a better term, well, better car.  But alongside all that news one thing has been clearly missing:  pricing.  That was not a mistake but rather a purposeful omission, as Toyota Motors and Toyota Motors USA has sent out a gag order to all dealers, holding us to the promise that we would not release information...

Last Friday a cleanup crew and I had the dubious task of cleaning up my fallen tree, compliments of Tropical Storm Irene.  With my assistance we were able to get the mess cleaned up in four hours.  The only lasting damage, aside from the tree, was a sprained wrist, however I could have been injured worse, so all things considered...  While in the process of cleaning up the governor flew by in his helicopter, which…

Hopefully you survived Hurricane Irene without damage or in the worst case very little.  While we are equipped for snow piles and removal thereof, our deteriorating roads did not withstand the battering this tropical storm unleashed.  Many of Vermont's covered bridges were washed away, and Connecticut is calling to see if we want to buy back our asphalt that is now in the Connecticut River.  I had a major tree limb come down and…

Recently while doing a test for the right to remain certified under the Toyota Motors USA for the Toyota brand, Toyota introduced their new radio technology.  This new technology, for whatever reason, is being dubbed high definition, or HD Radio.  This is being marketed by iBiquity Digital Corporation.

As we all know or at least were told years ago, there is a certain quality that makes HDTV high definition; though it does have better sound…

For those of you who follow the Handy Toyota happenings almost exclusively via Facebook or Twitter, I apologize, but I need to explain this again for our blog subscribers.  Last month I said something like "wow, I've never seen so many specials at Handy's!" or something along those lines, but I assure you my foot is placed firmly in my mouth.  Speaking of foot-in-mouth, you and I both know I should know better…

Way before the Prius was synonymous with the fight against emissions, gasoline costs, and so forth, Toyota Motors and their cars - a distinction that's anything but superfluous - were known for being fuel efficient and ultra low emissions vehicles.  I owned a 1991 Toyota Camry LE when I was 16 (the year was (2000), and even with my '91 Camry I was able to achieve 30 to 32 miles per gallon.  When you look on…

Forgive me if I'm being thickheaded in repeating that which I've repeated several times before this, but also keep in mind that I'm rather new as far as a "car guy" goes and I also don't make a dime off an actual sale (aside from the fact that Handy Toyota, a Toyota car selling business, buys my bread; in this case I suppose I do, albeit indirectly), but I really can…