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This past Wednesday, Toyota announced a new social media campaign that we think everyone can get behind. From now until January 4, 2016, Instagram users are encouraged to replace the #selfie hashtag with #selflessie. For every photo hashtagged on the popular photo-sharing social media platform, Toyota will donate $50, up to a total of $250,000, to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BCGA)...

Post a selfie on Instagram with #selflessie and we'll donate $50 to @BGCA_Clubs. https://t.co/8gJS5lkqJ6 for terms. pic.twitter.com/qOT7yDyhSF

— Toyota USA (@Toyota) December 2, 2015

If you’ve ever dreamed of competing in the Olympic Games, you will be happy to hear of Toyota’s recent announcement: it is a worldwide Paralympic sponsor through the year 2024.

Paralympics began in 1948 in England, as a simple archery competition for service personnel who had suffered injury. Since that time it has grown to a worldwide event, where the best and strongest athletes with disabilities compete.

If you’re in the market for a vehicle that is set to impress, look no further than the all-new Toyota Prius. Toyota is a brand that is dedicated to innovating their vehicles and providing customers with the best in engineering, reliability, and style. The Toyota Prius goes above and beyond, however, as one of the top-selling hybrids, and we invite you to click on the video below for a closer look.

Sure to be a star of the full-size SUV segment, the 2015 Toyota Sequoia is one well-rounded workhorse.

Boasting smart style, plenteous power and incredible creature comforts, this big-bodied beaut is truly the total package. Get a load of it in the video review below:

Just beneath the Sequoia's snout, a 5.7-liter V8 engine resides. Rated at a robust 381 horsepower and 401 pound-feet of torque, this eight-banger is extremely brawny.

Want further proof of its performance prowess? Well, its 0-to-60 mph time -- clocking in at a zesty 6.9 seconds -- should be all that you need.

If a compact crossover is at the top of your new-car wish list, your chums at Classic Toyota Galveston encourage you to take a good, long look at the 2015 Toyota RAV4. It very well may deliver everything you're searching for in a daily driver.

And here to delineate the RAV4's top five traits is Jabari Jones, Autotrader critic. Get his take in the clip below:

There's simply so very much to like about the RAV4's 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine. For one, it's sufficiently spunky, twisting out a terrific 176 horsepower and 172 pound-feet of…

Toyota vehicles are reliable. It is well known. Just Google "most reliable car," and you'll find lists populated with Toyota vehicles in their top-ranking spots.

Surely that legendary reliability doesn't apply to our hybrid models, does it?

Far from finicky new technology, hybrid vehicles like the Toyota Prius can possess the same level of endurance into high mileage as an all-gas engine. The biggest concern we hear about hybrids is that the battery could break down, and it's an expensive replacement if it does.

That's true, but unlike a normal car battery, hybrid batteries are meant…

As the disclaimer fine-print is quick to remark: do not use raw lemonade as fuel. It needs to be processed into hydrogen.

Hydrogen can actually be used to power an internal combustion engine, but it is most efficient when used in a fuel cell vehicle (FCV) like the 2016 Toyota Mirai.

Will cars really be fueled by lemonade? Probably not lemons-- but hydrogen fuel is made by running an electric current through water. Water is actually not a very good conductor of electricity, so electrolytes must be added to the water, like sodium, or... lemon juice.

The point is, we…

 

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A photo posted by toyotausa (@toyotausa) on Aug 12, 2015 at 1:56pm PDT

All vehicles eventually stop running. They get too much mileage on them, and it's time to trade them in, if they still have value, or scrap them if they don't. Toyota vehicles, however, have a certain magic about them. Sometimes it seems like they will never stop running.

This used truck was in poor shape when the Top Gear team acquired it, according to them, straight from a farm field.

Its body panels were rusting, and it just didn't look like much. But looks can be deceiving. It's exactly this type of rugged Toyota that has…