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[Toyota Times] Guy Who Loves Cars Meets Guy Who Loves Food
11 Dec 2025
On this episode of Voice-Only Toyota Times News, we join Morizo at the Fuji Speedway Hotel to enjoy the food he's having and the conversations that unfold around the table!
[Toyota Times] My Boss Akio Toyoda: An Author's True Story of 5,012 Days
10 Dec 2025
My Boss Akio Toyoda was published in September. The author, Toyota Fellow Hideki Fujii, talks about what inspired him to write the book and the experiences that shaped his work as a speechwriter.
Lexus World Premieres Lexus LFA Concept BEV Sports Car
05 Dec 2025
Lexus, today, world premiered the Lexus LFA Concept―a battery electric vehicle (BEV) sports car concept model.
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Premieres GR GT & GR GT3
05 Dec 2025
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (TGR) today world premiered two new models―the GR GT and GR GT3―by publicly displaying under-development prototypes for the first time.
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing and Lexus Hold World Premiere of GR GT, GR GT3, and Lexus LFA Concept
05 Dec 2025
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (TGR) and the Lexus brand held the world premiere today of TGR's GR GT and GR GT3 and Lexus' Lexus LFA Concept.
[Toyota Times] Achieving a Hydrogen Society Through Diverse Uses
03 Dec 2025
Hydrogen is increasingly becoming part of everyday life in many forms. This episode follows the initiatives and ambitions of the partners working to achieve a hydrogen society.
Save the Date: Livestream of All-New Sports Models World Premiere on December 5
03 Dec 2025
Toyota Motor Corporation will livestream the All-New Sports Models World Premiere from 11:00 a.m. on December 5.
[Toyota Times] NASCAR Comes to Super Taikyu! U.S. - Japan Exchange Through Motorsports
03 Dec 2025
This episode of Toyota Times is an America-themed double feature, showcasing the NASCAR showrun held at the Super Taikyu finale at Fuji Speedway and Toyota's first battery plant in the U.S.
[Toyota Times] Hanging with the Cool Kids - Chairman Toyoda Receives German Automotive Award
03 Dec 2025
On November 18 Japan time, Chairman Akio Toyoda received the Golden Steering Wheel, one of the European automotive industry's most prestigious awards. We share his words of joy.
Rally Saudi Arabia: Day 4 Ogier becomes nine-time world champion with TOYOTA GAZOO Racing
03 Dec 2025
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team driver Sebastien Ogier has won a record-equalling ninth FIA World Rally Championship title after he and co-driver Vincent Landais prevailed in a dramatic final-day decider at Rally Saudi Arabia.
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
