Our most recent experience with one of Toyota’s 4Runner trucks was in 2019, when we drove a 4Runner 4X4 TRD Off-Road Premium to that year’s Indianapolis 500 race. The loan covered the race week and we took advantage, bringing a blow-up mattress, pillow and blanket, sleeping in the hatch (one…
Proffit at the Wheel: 2025 Toyota Corolla FX
It’s been more than six months since I drove the 2025 Toyota Corolla FX. Quite frankly, I thought I’d known about every single Corolla model, but I’d never heard about the FX until Toyota graciously loaned us this black example with its gray interior. Toyota’s four-door sedan Corolla has been…
Angie on Top at Route 66
Pro Stock Motorcycle’s Angie Smith set the pace in qualifying, making the quickest run in both sessions on Friday at the 26th annual Gerber Collision & Glass Route 66 NHRA Nationals presented by PEAK, including a 6.738 at 200.17 in the opening session on her Denso Auto Parts Buell. With…
Proffit at the Wheel: The 2025 Camry XSE hybrid
It’s quite a distance from our home in Long Beach to the Wine Country of Sonoma County and the Sonoma Raceway (nee Sears Point), site of the 37th annual Denso NHRA Sonoma Nationals, the 12th race in NHRA’s 20-race calendar. Toyota offered two choices: a 2025 Camry XSE hybrid or…
Right Rears, Rain, and Restart Skills Write Brickyard Script
With four laps to go and about a three-plus second lead on last year’s Brickyard 400 winner Kyle Larson, Bubba Wallace had the worst luck possible, short of flipping into the catch fence. With nothing showing on the radar, turn one of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was pelted with a…
King-Maker Mayer Pushes Zilisch to Xfinity Indy Win
I happened to be standing next to Indy AP sportswriter Mike Marot for the restart of the Pennzoil 250 Xfinity race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with 15 laps to go. Defending race winner Justin Allgaier and last year’s Brickyard 400 winner Kyle Larson led third place Conner Zilisch. “Allgaier’s…
Proffit at the Wheel: 2024 Toyota Prius Prime SE review
Toyota’s Prius has become the ubiquitous hybrid five-door liftback hatch. Now in its fifth iteration, redrawn for the 2023 selling season, Prius gained something it didn’t have in the four generations that came before it: a handsome face. Introduced in December of 2022, the fifth generation Prius is good looking,…
The Details of Larson’s Brickyard 400 Win
Less than two months after his attempt to run the Indy 500/Coca-Cola 600 double, Kyle Larson won at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS). Larson and the Rick Hendrick team left IMS on May 26 disappointed after their first Indianapolis 500, which was delayed 4 hours by rain. The 600 was…
Proffit at the Wheel: 2023 Toyota CorollaCross Hybrid & RAV4 PHEV Reviews
Let’s face it: very few auto makers are as well versed in the science of hybridization than Toyota and its Lexus division. They’ve been doing this a long, long time—more than 20 years—and have learned how to build hybrid vehicles that are both economical and easy to live with. In…
Proffit at the Wheel: 2023 XLE model Camry Hybrid Sedan review
If you think that every third or fifth medium-sized late-model sedan on the road is a Toyota Camry, you’re probably right. We had the opportunity to drive and review the 2023 XLE model Camry hybrid sedan during the latter portion of the Indianapolis 500 gathering—it lasts more than two weeks—and…
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