Aiming to create a performance-oriented engine that would be smaller, lighter, and efficient enough to be relevant in the era of downsizing, Toyota enlisted Yamaha's help to create the iconic 2ZZ-GE.

Car companies often integrate engines from other manufacturers to leverage specialized expertise, cut costs, and meet stringent regulatory standards, and it usually works out for the best. One example ...

WHY YOU WANT ONE:Toyota's and Subaru's joint-effort boxer engine isn't the most powerful four-cylinder either company's ever made, but that doesn't make it any less special. Call it a hodgepodge of ...

While the popular opinion says that Miata is always the answer, people in the know always said that the last Toyota MR2 Roadster was actually the more exciting sports car. The mid-engined layout along ...

Wed Jul 8, 2015 12:00 AM Last update on: Wed Jul 8, 2015 02:03 PM If you are looking at post-2000 Toyota engine that is reliable, economical with some performance aspirations, chances are you are ...

The Toyota 2ZZ-GE VVTLi four cylinder engine has reached the end of it production cycle and Lotus, who also uses the unit, has offered the Japanese company a special Elise R using the last 2ZZ-GE ...

The term "Special Edition" or "Limited Edition" was ruined long ago but car dealerships putting stripes and a free CD player into a car and trying to con the public into thinking they were getting a ...

We've all seen the way the 1.6 4AGE 4 cylinder, in blacktop and silvertop forms, and the B16A as well as the B20B have dominated the local tuning scene. When it comes to new cars, though, performance ...

Before GR this and GR that, Toyota quietly built a supercharged hot hatch and never brought it to the U.S. It was a Europe-only special launched in 2005 with forced induction, tuned suspension, and ...

The much-lauded Lotus Elise was discontinued in 2021 along with the Lotus Exige and Evora, bringing an end to an eventful journey that began in 1996 with the introduction of Lotus' Elise Series 1. The ...