Handy Toyota

The Blue Man Group; the "dum dum duh dum" tune; blazing fast computer processing.  What do these things mean?  Intel, and you'll be happy to know these things, in a chip form, are coming to Toyota's infotainment products.

In case you don't know what the newly coined phrase "infotainment" means, it's exactly what the strange word looks like:  information meets entertainment.  As a point in case I give you Toyota's Entune...

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...

This week in Tom's world has been relatively quiet.  Weather-wise it has been spectacular with the exception of today, which is certainly a good break for us all.  With the decent weather better news for new car-shoppers has also arrived, as every week we are seeing more car haulers from Toyota, meaning new car inventory is enhancing by the blog.In Europe, the 2012 Prius Plug-in was road tested for fuel economy at the...