It bombed. In fact, had Toyota not built a savior eight years later, the company might have disappeared from the U.S. market for good. Prior to World War II, as a means to bolster its industrial base, ...

Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney for their take on the hottest hacks in a hot, hot week. We found a bunch of unusual mechanisms this week, like an ...

Toyota's first Toyopet Crown, the company's flagship, launched with great fanfare in the home market on January 1, 1955. A large, deluxe sedan, the Crown was the pride of Toyota, "a new, ...