the Toyota logo... very clever

Found on http://diply.com/trendyjoe/30-famous-logos-that-have-a-hidden-message/49939/

Road and Track just did an article on the Corolla I posted last month

My gallery of the car is at http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/06/out-of-ordinary-autocrossing-honda-or.html

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-videos/video-lexus-v8-powered-garage-built-toyota-corolla?src=soc_fcbks

Mark Still had a 1975 Corolla and a career as a Hollywood master fabricator. Then he got his mitts on some Lexus parts.

Under the Corolla went the front and rear subframes of a Lexus SC400 and all its associated suspension. The engine bay swallowed the Lexus's 1UZ V8, but Still couldn't get the Eaton M112 supercharger to clear the hood, so he punched out a workmanlike hole—which has the happy secondary effect of giving frightened onlookers the chance to see the twirling blower pulley. And then there's the crazy header arrangement—the 1UZ didn't sound wild enough, so he fabricated some equal-length headers with four crossovers to perfect the audio signature.

Toyota is moving from Torrance California to Plano Texas

Texas is footing a $40,000,000 dollar bill in state assistance... to a company worth $40,000,000,000 that is 40 million paid or waived on taxes to a company worth 40 billion. There's a 39 billion and 960 million dollar difference in those two numbers.

The money might not matter as much as the easier business and lower cost of living for the 3000 California employees and 1600 Kentucky employees.

Toyota says it's relocating to be closer to it's plants and factories, and to plan to do business for the next 50 years.

A good article in Car and Driver August 2014 is written all about it by John Phillips, page 28. 

Australia.. the yikes version

Found on http://stunningpicture.tumblr.com/