According to a Wall Street Journal report, early findings by the United States Department of Transportation are indicating driver error as the cause of some sudden-acceleration accidents related to Toyota automobiles. The Journal report said, “The early results suggest that some drivers who said their Toyota’s and Lexus’s surged out of control were mistakenly flooring the accelerator when they intended to jam on the brakes”.  Continue Reading

What once was a clear cut and dry case has now become a convoluted mess. Regulators are now saying they can find no direct cause for the random unstoppable acceleration of Toyotas. Just two months ago this was over and done with. I find myself very curious as to what may have changed between now and then. Continue Reading

Green movement enthusiasts and Toyota fans alike will be happy to hear that the Toyota plug-in Prius is one step closer to becoming a reality.  Over the next 18 months, Toyota Motor Sales will loan 150 of the new 2012 Plug-In Prius Hybrids to organizations nationwide for road tests.  Continue Reading

There was once a time when bands gained recognition by playing gig after gig, night after night. It didn’t matter if you were playing rap music at a country bar or performing for a crowd of 10, you had to keep on shredding to get noticed. Now in 2010, all you have to do is shop your demo around different social marketing outlets, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and then hope that Ellen hears your music and flies you out to her show. It’s as simple as that. Continue Reading

I truly hope I’m not the only nerd out there, and when they heard the word Tesla started thinking of the infamous Tesla coil. What a great invention that never was. During the electric invention race between Tesla and Edison, there were marvels that rival even today’s imagination all devised by one man. Nikola Tesla was a visionary and a genius. Unfortunately, he what he lacked was people skills and the ability to campaign for his work. Continue Reading

Loyal Toyota consumers needn’t fear, their Champaign Toyota dealer won’t be turning into a vacant lot any time soon.  Toyota Motor Corp has shown skeptics that the world’s largest automaker isn’t going down without a fight as they posted a profit of $1.2 billion for the quarter after a year of high-profile recalls spurred on by the PR nightmare of sudden acceleration cases and several probes by the US Auto Safety Regulators.  These setbacks could have severely crippled a lesser auto company, but Toyota has illustrated the benefit of consumer loyalty and the advantage of having a wide-ranging product line. Continue Reading