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Toyoland is a site dedicated to Toyota, Lexus, and Scion cars, minivans, and trucks. We have a Toyota FAQ and sections on history, performance, and news. We cover nearly every Toyota, Scion, and Lexus.

We are not owned by Toyota, so we are free to express our honest opinions about Toyota. We like Toyota, but nothing is perfect and we are free to be critical. We welcome opinions, articles, pictures, stories about Toyota. We also welcome feedback about our site- let us know if there is something you'd like to see covered more thoroughly.

All about Toyota

Toyota is the world's largest automaker, producing the best-built standard and luxury cars, as well as the largest range of hybrid-electric vehicles, and some of the toughest trucks. Toyota sells more vehicles (over 9 million per year) than General Motors, and is on its way to becoming America’s favorite family of brands. Toyota sells roughly 16% of all vehicles in the US, more than Ford (GM sells around 24%). Honda, the next best-selling import, has only around a 9% market share.

Both of the best selling cars in America are Toyotas: the Camry and Corolla/Matrix. Sales of the Camry alone beat the entire lineups of Mitsubishi, Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes, and Mazda (in the US); and the Camry is now taking off in China, too.

Toyota has been a pioneer in advanced technology - not so much inventing it as actually using it. Toyota also treats its employees with an unusual degree of respect, and relies upon people at all levels to increase productivity and reliability. Perhaps that is why Toyota is alone in never building "clunkers" like the first-generation Ford Focus and Tempo, Honda Civic del Sol, or so many Mercedes models.

Toyota is well established in motorsports and now is competing in NASCAR Sprint Cup events. This year, Kyle Busch won the Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in a Toyota Camry. It's the first time that a non-US manufacturer has won a major NASCAR race since 1954. Given Toyota's commitment to its teams, it seems as though Toyota will now be a permanent part of NASCAR events. So will Toyoland- and we are looking for your help! NASCAR fans, send us your stories, pictures, opinions and we will publish them here on our NASCAR page. Of course, the same holds true for all Toyota motorsports!

Toyota also owns about a quarter of the world’s second largest parts supplier, Denso.

Legal stuff

This site is owned and managed by Allpar, LLC, a limited liability company formed to serve owners and enthusiasts of mass-production cars. Please see our terms of service and privacy policy. The Toyoland webmaster is John Brennan, writer of Ghosts of Newport. John drives a 2004 Toyota Prius. He bought it used with 12,000 miles on the odometer; today it has nearly 90,000 hard miles behind it. Kids, floods, accidents, mountains, blizzards, cities and beaches, he freely admits that his Prius has been treated like a government truck. Yet it continues to run beautifully and he has no intentions of trading the old girl in.