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These pups are ready for Halloween! What Toyota are you driving around this season? We love fall activities, and we rely on our Toyota models to make fall memorable for our families. Here's some fall activity ideas for some of the most reliable vehicles on the road...

When it comes to reliability, there are a few indicators that will bring you back to Toyota, and thanks to this massive study reported by Your Mechanic, the proof is in the data. Based on estimates of total maintenance over 10 years, Toyota costs the least to maintain.¹

The study also broke it down to individual models-- which cars cost the most to maintain, and which cost the least. Toyota didn't make the list of highest maintenance cost, but it did have five cars in the top 10 lowest-cost-to-maintain cars. Here's who made the list...

The Giant Panda has been endangered so long, its endangerment could have graduated college and gotten a job by now. 

Protecting this species, and many more around the world, means we have to make a difference. Toyota is doing that by adding more hybrid models to its lineup and using sustainable manufacturing practices that have earned the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award for 12 consecutive years.

Most vehicles are equipped with LATCH (Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children) hardware, designed to make it easier to install child seats. Instead of securing the seat with safety belts, LATCH provides lower anchors and tethers to help you get the right fit.

Not all LATCH systems are alike, however, and in June 2015, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety launched a new test category -- LATCH ease-of-use.

Toyota Motor Corporation may be a Japanese-owned company, but Toyota Motor North America is American as apple pie and bacon-cheeseburgers.

For the second year in a row (and sixth time overall), the Camry was found to contain the highest proportion of domestically-manufactured components in the Cars.com 2016 American-Made Index. This Toyota sedan supports over 6,000 full-time manufacturing jobs in the U.S.

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at CALTY Design Research, Inc.? The process at CALTY Design Research, Inc. is long and filled with modern computer aids, including digital models and 3D printing, and good old-fashioned techniques, like milling clay, fabric sampling, and pen-and-paper concept sketches.

Would you like to experience the design, technology, and performance of a Toyota vehicle firsthand? Visit Frank Fletcher Toyota to see the finished products of years of hard work and innovation in our new Toyota inventory!

In January 2016, Toyota opened up a new company dedicated to developing artificially intelligent machines. The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is led by CEO Dr. Gill Pratt, formerly a roboticist for DARPA. This big step forward by an automaker caught the attention of the MIT Technology Review. On its list of the 50 Smartest Companies of 2016, Toyota ranked 17th, ahead of Microsoft and Intel.

We're funding 28,000+ species assessments with @IUCN to help protect biodiversity: https://t.co/wGteGwkSku pic.twitter.com/rOO0NUnMbL

— ToyotaGB (@ToyotaGB) May 10, 2016

The International Union for Conservation of Nature conducts assessments of threats, present and future, to the survival of all different kinds of species, and makes this information readily available to conservation scientists around with world on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

The IUCN is one of the most accepted international standards for the conservation status of species. What we mean is...

A refreshing drive that takes you away from your daily stresses is at times necessary to keep your head on straight. That's why we here at Frank Fletcher Toyota enjoy taking the wheel of the 2016 Toyota 4Runner. The Toyota 4Runner will undoubtedly impress you just as much as it does us, so we highly encourage you to hit the road and feel its power as soon as possible.

 

Nothing like fresh air and the power of a #4Runner in the palm of your hands.

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With the official start of the month of June comes the unofficial start of the summer season--at least in our eyes, that is! Sure, we technically have a few more weeks of spring before we can official declare the commencement of the summer of 2016, but if you ask us here at Frank Fletcher Toyota, there's no better time than the present to start planning for one epic summer road trip with friends or family.