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If your tires are in need of replacement, finding a new set of tires may not always be the easiest thing to do. You must choose what type of tire you need. Here at Elgin Toyota want to help our customers get the information they need about which tires are best for their Toyota car, truck or SUV.

Your car needs a little bit of extra care during the winter. When ice or snow builds up on the windshield, you have to take the time to defrost it so you can see. Although you have been taking care of your car very well, you still have a hard time seeing when it snows hard while you're driving. You might be forgetting to do one thing.

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Take a look at the 2018 Toyota Prius c exterior, and you’d never guess that it’s Toyota’s most affordable hybrid option. With its modern, updated design, new lighting and exterior colors, plus machined alloy wheels and other accents, the Prius c exterior takes center stage.

Vibrant, Versatile Design

The 2018 model is newly refreshed and evokes a crossover feeling. Although the Prius c isn’t large, the four passenger doors…

Recently, Toyota and Discovery Education revealed that the 2018 TeenDrive365 Video Challenge -- now in its sixth year -- was inviting teens to submit an original Public Service Announcement that focuses on engaging in safe, aware driving habits. Submissions should be between 30 and 60 seconds long and aimed at an audience of students in grades 9-12.

This weekend on September 30, 2017 it will be no different, with hundreds of thousands of volunteers dusting of their gloves to go to work preserving our public lands for National Public Lands Day (NPLD). 

The activities can range from trail maintenance, to planting, to trash pick-up and more, as well as hikes, bike rides, festivals, paddling excursions and other activities.

Toyota gives financial backing for the program as well as hosting more than 30 events for employees across the nation.

Have interest in NPLD you can join one of the NPLD volunteer opportunities near Streamwood, IL.

Recently, it was announced that Toyota has been named an official U.S. Ski & Snowboard partner, continuing their established relationship leading into the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang. The partnership began last season when Toyota became the title sponsor of the U.S. Grand Prix, a premier U.S. Ski & Snowboard event.

 

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Prius Prime Inventory

With an autonomous driving story that hearkens back to 2005, at its technical center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the automaker's work quickly turned into its first 2006 patents, Toyota has come a long way to 2017. As of 2016 and a report by Thomson Reuters's Intellectual Property and Science division, Toyota holds some pretty telling field patents, and the March 3, 2017 Prius Challenge at Sonoma Raceway showed us a few fruits of the manufacturer's labor, in the form of Toyota Research Institute's (TRI) new, advanced safety research vehicle, developed on a new, second-generation...

Congrats team @ryan_millen_ on your 1st place 2WD class finish at @PerceNeigeRally - kickin' off 2017 @ara_rally right! #RallyRAV4 pic.twitter.com/6AWKFXCp1G

— Toyota USA (@Toyota) February 6, 2017

Newly formed American Rally Association (ARA) driver Ryan Millen and co-driver Rhianon Gelsomino sped to victory in the early-February Perce Neige Rally championship thanks to their rally-build custom Toyota RAV4 SE, besting 140 stage miles and nearly 300 miles total of diverse terrain and obstacles replete with a total snow whiteout. And on Friday and Saturday, March 17-18, Team...