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1. Foreign car giants Toyota and BMW excited for joint sports car project
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

BY MIKE OLIVA NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM German automaker BMW and Japan’s Toyota Motor Corporation have agreed to work together in an effort to jointly develop a hydrogen fuel cell system. The companies ...

2. (VIDEO) Google's robotic, autonomous car gets Nevada's OK
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... 2011 Legislature passed the first law in the nation to permit testing of driverless cars. Google will be testing at least eight cars — six Toyota Priuses, an Audi TT and a Lexus RX450h. Google's modified ...

3. REVIEW: Jeep Compass 2012: Over Hill, Over Dale in the Baby Jeep
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... it competes with the Kia Sportage, GMC Terrain, and Hyundai’s Santa Fe and Tucson. It has also been pulling motorists out of small cars like the Toyota Corolla, who are looking for a low-cost vehicle in ...

4. N.Y. Giants' Eli Manning and Rihanna form SNL team
(Entertainment/Movies)

... in several TV commercials, most notably for Toyota. When older brother Payton hosted the show in 2007, Eli appeared during the monologue with the rest of his family sitting in the audience. The show ...

5. 2012 Kelly Blue Book values: Used car market has its ups and downs
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

BY ROGER WITHERSPOON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM CAR REVIEW When it comes to year-old cars, iconic, fuel efficient vehicles like the Toyota FJ Cruiser and the hot rod, Chevy Camaro are in high demand. ...

6. Consumer Reports: Hybrid car buyers may go electric
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Aside from the Toyota Prius, studies suggest that people who buy hybrid cars are not becoming repeat customers. A study based on car buying between 2008 and 2011 ...

7. REVIEW: 2012 Kia Optima Hybrid and 2012 Ford Fusion Hybrid
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

BY ROGER WITHERSPOON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM CAR REVIEW Nobody knew what to make of the Toyota Prius when it first hit the American roadways. It was an odd looking little car. It wasn’t ugly or a ...

8. Google's self-driving car: Toyota Prius wows passengers (VIDEO)
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

...  The enhanced Toyota Prius, equipped with a spinning cylinder on the roof, uses artificial intelligence software that can sense any traffic or activity near the car, mimicking a human driver. For the ...

9. Brooklyn limo and taxi operator charged with insurance scam
(N.J./State)

... Continental Insurance Co. for the customer‘s 1999 Toyota Sienna, as well as fraudulently obtaining $14,400 in premium payments from a third customer, which were paid to Safe & Fare and were to be forwarded ...

10. Laptop Reviews
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... alliance. They will sell and sell a lot. There are many perils to owning your own manufacturing like Nokia does. But the upside is sturdy high quality builds - They're the Toyota of the mobile market and ...

11. N.Y. Giants brand consistency pays off in post-season
(Sports/Professional)

... lots of new and innovative ground in social media outreach and brand value. Eli Manning is all over Toyota as a spokesperson, Justin Tuck's R.U.S.H. For Literacy program helps thousands of kids in the ...

12. Toyota 2012 Aqua hybrid boasts 83 mpg
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

BY JOHN SOLTES NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Toyota launched its brand-new gasoline-electric compact hybrid car, dubbed the "Aqua," on Monday, Dec. 26 in Japan. The global car manufacturer expects to sell ...

13. Reginald Lee of Elizabeth and A'Jon Rogers of East Orange plead guilty to roles in stolen car ring
(N.J./State)

... a 2003 Dodge Ram 50; a 1998 Land Rover Discovery; a 2003 Ford Econoline Conversion Van; a 1998 Toyota 4Runner; a 2004 Ford Econoline Conversion Van; a 1999 Mercedes Benz E430; a 2002 Subaru WRX; a 2005 ...

14. REVIEW: 2011 Chevy Volt
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... electric vehicles aimed at the general public, charting a different course than the Nissan Leaf and the Toyota Prius Hybrid Plug-in Electric. Toyota was the first off the electric block but is entering ...

15. REVIEW: 2011 Lexus CT
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... unpredictable landscape like this, one would like to be behind the wheel of a Jeep or Toyota’s go-anywhere FJ Cruiser. But the car of the day was a compact, hybrid hatchback, the Lexus CT 200h, which is ...

16. Kashif Parvaiz to get $2M before wife Nazish Noorani killed
(N.J./State)

... from start According to ABC News, a court affidavit stated that as New Jersey police were headed to the scene of the murder last week, officers saw a blue Toyota Camry speeding away with its lights turned ...

17. A naughty thought about U.S. corporate stock buybacks
(Opinion/Commentary)

... foreigners: Germans (Siemens and Mercedes Benz), Japanese (Toyota and Nissan), Koreans with their American assembly plants and others who have opened up American plants. General Electric, whose president ...

18. Reginald Lee Jr. of Glen Ridge and A'Jon Rogers of East Orange indicted for alleged roles in stolen vehicle ring
(N.J./State)

... ZX636 motorcycle; a 2003 Dodge Ram 50; a 1998 Land Rover Discovery; a 2003 Ford Econoline Conversion Van; a 1998 Toyota 4Runner; a 2004 Ford Econoline Conversion Van; a 1999 Mercedes Benz E430; a 2002 ...

19. Paolo 'Paul' Mariano of Wayne gets four years in prison for stealing from Passaic County government
(N.J./State)

... to report anything. Mariano then had a mechanic disassemble the car. Mariano also admitted that in November 2006, he directed county mechanics to remove an engine from a 1995 Toyota 4-Runner that had ...

20. Eduardo Gonzalez of Absecon indicted for possession of stolen car
(N.J./State)

... alleges that between Sept. 14, 2006 and Jan. 11, 2008, Gonzalez brought a 2004 Toyota Camry into New Jersey knowing that the vehicle had been stolen. It is also alleged that he knew the VIN number of the ...