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How Reliable is the Toyota Prius?

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…

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Can Your Car be Fueled by Lemonade?

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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All You Need is a Good Mechanic and a Used Toyota Might Never Die

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…

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