Max Geoghegan has finished his TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Australia (TGRA) GR CUP season on a high, winning $50,000 and the 2024 Championship title after a weekend of action-packed Toyota GR86 racing on the Gold Coast. The grandson of the late five-time Australian Touring Car Champion Ian “Pete” Geoghegan qualified in second place and went on to drive solidly in all three races finishing with a third and two second places, giving him a season total...
Toyota Community Trust has partnered with Teach For Australia to provide nearly $1m in funding over the next three years, to help support its programs that develop teachers to empower the next generation of innovators. The Toyota Community Trust Fund is focused on furthering education of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and the announcement comes as the world celebrates its educators on World Teachers Day on Friday 25 October. The partnership will see the...
Toyota Australia equipped students with driving skills for the future hosting a Road Safety Education (RSE) RYDA workshop at Toyota’s Australia Centre of Excellence, Altona. The workshop saw 70 Year 10 secondary school students from Australian International Academy participate in several sessions throughout the day to learn about road safety including exploring key risk areas for young drivers. These key areas include managing mind state as a road safety risk factor, the relationship between speeding...
The 2024 TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Australia (TGRA) GR CUP season is set for a thrilling finale at the Gold Coast later this month after an exciting round of racing as one of the premier support categories for Australia’s most iconic motorsport event, the Bathurst 1000. New South Welshman Max Geoghegan took top honours at Mount Panorama, only missing out on an event clean sweep with a second-place finish in the third and final race of...
Toyota’s upgraded GR86 two-door sports car range will arrive in Australian showrooms in December, headlined by the new GR86 Limited Edition variant which is distinguished by unique, classic design touches. The Limited Edition is priced from $49,600 plus on-road costs1 and tops the sharply priced GR86 range, which continues to offer customers one of the most accessible entry points to the sports car segment. Multiple mechanical and dynamic enhancements were implemented across the GR86 range, based...
Toyota has magnified the energy and excitement at this weekend’s Bathurst 1000 by unveiling a full-size clay model of the GEN3 GR Supra Supercar that will light up the Supercars grid from 2026. Based on the classic rear-drive coupe proportions of the most celebrated model in Toyota’s illustrious sports-car heritage, the reveal of the muscular GR “Supracar” at the world-famous enduro underscores Toyota’s serious intent for Australia’s premier motorsport category. Motorsport enthusiasts have billed the...
Toyota Australia has today announced that it will initiate a safety recall involving certain Toyota Kluger and Kluger Hybrid vehicles produced between 4th March 2021 – 19th January 2024 (inclusive). There are approximately 36,789 vehicles involved in the Australian market. The involved vehicles are equipped with a second row 60/40 split, fold down bench seat which is constructed with a seat frame containing a seat-back mid-bar. Certain points on the ends of the 40% side of the seat-back mid-bar...
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Australia’s (TGRA) biggest-ever Bathurst 1000 will offer fans exciting, interactive experiences and the opportunity to see a full-size clay model of the new GEN3 GR Supra racecar, which will enter the Supercars Championship for the 2026 season. There will be plenty of action on the track as well with the penultimate round of the 2024 TGRA GR CUP that will see racers battling it out at Australia’s most famous racing circuit. Joining...
Toyota has launched its new hybrid-only Camry range in Australia, with a new-generation Hybrid Electric powertrain, stylish exterior and interior redesign, and substantially upgraded multimedia and active safety technologies. Reflecting Toyota’s commitment to fuel-saving technologies and its multi-pathway approach to decarbonisation, the new Camry sees the introduction of Toyota’s fifth-generation 2.5-litre Hybrid Electric powertrain to its Australian lineup for the first time. The new generation Hybrid Electric powertrain delivers more power, improved drive performance and...
Toyota’s full-size Tundra pickup will officially go on sale in Australia in November 2024 following final approval of the local re-engineering project by Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan. Toyota Australia partnered with Walkinshaw Automotive Group to re-engineer the US-built Tundra from left-hand drive to right-hand drive, with the vehicle to be produced at Walkinshaw’s manufacturing facility in Melbourne. This is the first time Toyota has worked with a third-party organisation for such a project anywhere...
