Handy Toyota

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…

St. Albans, VT - Handy Toyota, a new and used Toyota dealership in St. Albans, VT, serving the Franklin, Lamoille, and Chittenden Counties since 1952, earned their seventh consecutive Toyota President's Award this past week.

Beginning in 2005, Handy Toyota entered the highest ranks of Toyota dealerships across the United States with their first award in this seven-year stretch.  The Toyota President's Award is given by Toyota Motors USA...

Even with the catastrophic earthquake and ensuing tsunami Japan had to endure in the early half of 2011, Toyota Motors - whose factories and car parts supply chains were as ravaged as any other industry or part of the country - was able to come through the calendar year with some strong winning models in terms of overall sales figures.  The 2011 Sienna was America's best selling minivan with 111,429 units sold, where the Toyota Tacoma earned the best selling small pickup sales segment with over 110,700 units sold, and the world's best hybrid vehicle, the Prius, sold over 136,000 units.

But the real winners?  Toyota's Corolla and Camry sedans, winners of the world's best selling and America's best selling vehicle overall respectively.  Learn more about the excellent year these two flagship Toyota vehicles had by clicking the Read More button or subscribe today.

This past week has been a big one for automakers, especially those looking to gain more traction in the eastern countries surrounding Japan.  The 42nd Tokyo Motor Show saw every car company bringing out their big guns, their exciting vehicles of the future, and basically, as the Wall Street Journal explains, "competed for attention."

The show's biggest car?  The newly coined Toyota 86, the latest pre-production model of the formerly named Toyota FT-86/Toyota…

Back in June of 2011, Handy Toyota of St. Albans, VT published a blog regarding Toyota's commitment to teen driving safety called "Another charitable donations, this time in the name of safety," in which Toyota Motors USA donated, as the blog's name implies, a massive $1 million to the Buckle Up For Life campaign designed at teaching mid-adolescent drivers the dangers of neglecting to buckle one's safety belt.  This donation actually came on the heels of another such philanthropy effort which rewarded the top vote-getter a new Toyota vehicle, and was followed by another safety seminar to benefit the training of young drivers with the help of the old drivers, the AARP.

Today, Toyota and Discovery Education takes another step in safety by setting up the Toyota Teen Driver Video Challenge, a competition that allows high school students to make up to two-minute videos showing how they would encourage safe driving amongst their peers.

Click the Read More button to learn more about the latest teen safety initiative and for information on how your grades 9-12 students can register to win.