Serious Eats & Toyota Date Night Number Four
As Toyota & Serious Eats continue on in their Culinary Dream Date experience, they head to New York City to where they will treat two lucky couples to an unforgettable night out in the fourth episode of this series. In New York, the couples dined out at Hearth, an upscale restaurant in the East Village that is run by owner and head chef, Marco Canora.
At the beginning of the episode, we meet Chef Canora as he travels through Manhattan driving the 2016 Toyota Sienna to all of the stops that he has to make at the start of his day. While doing so, he comments on some of the features he likes about this vehicle and shares a bit about his passion for cooking.
We then meet the two lucky couples, Bea & Paul and Lydia & Michael when they are each picked up in their own Toyota Sienna and whisked off to Hearth. We were then able to see a few highlights from their night out including some of the food they got to sample and their one-on-one conversations with Chef Canora.
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Toyota Division Reports March Sales
As the Toyota Division closes out the first quarter of the year they have reported that total sales from January through March came to 494,858 units. According to Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., sales throughout March alone were 189,644 units.
The RAV4 and Highlander both reported their best-ever March sales. Sales for the RAV4 were up 15.1 percent to reach 29,045 units and sales of the Highlander were up 14.6 percent to reach 14,949 units.
In terms of top sales, the Camry and the Corolla recorded the best overall totals selling 32,566 units and 36,911 units respectively.
A few more March highlights include sales of the 4Runner up 11 percent to end the month with 9,599 units and sales of the Tacoma up 11.3 percent to end the month with 17,684 units.
“Toyota Motor Sales Reports March 2016 Sales | Corporate.” Toyota USA Newsroom. N.p., 1 Apr. 2016. Web. <http://pressroom.toyota.com/releases/toyota+lexus+scion+march+2016+sales+release.htm>.
Toyota fans in the State College, Johnstown, Hollidaysburg, Altoona, and Indiana, PA areas that are in the market for a new pickup are invited to visit Fiore Toyota to take a look at the all-new 2016 Toyota Tacoma. This incredible truck is sure to fit all of your work and personal needs and we know that you will fall in love with it as soon as you get behind the wheel. For more details on everything that comes standard and optional with the 2016 Tacoma, read our new Research & Review page being released soon. This page will be accessible on our website and you will be able learn about all of the facts including trim levels, can and box style options, performance capabilities, and much more. Check out this new page once it arrives for more information!
Serious Eats & Toyota Date Night Number Three
The third episode of the Dream Date experience from Toyota and Serious Eats has been released and this time they treated a pair of lucky couples to a night out in Chicago, IL. For this episode, the couples experienced a personalized dining experience in the library at Topolobampo where they dined on a specialized menu created by Chef Rick Bayless.
The beginning of this episode showed Chef Bayless traveling around Chicago in the 2016 Sienna while he ran errands and prepared for the menu that he would be serving that night. He also discussed his passion for cooking and the type of experience he looks to offer customers when they dine at Topolobampo. Later, we meet the two winning couples while they ride over to the restaurant in the Sienna and then share a bit of their experience with them as they try all of the culinary delights that have been created especially for them.
See the full episode in the video below.
Toyota Motor Company was one of more than 20 automakers who agreed to help the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in their goal to make Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) standard by no later than September 1, 2022. Now, Toyota has announced that they plan to make this technology standard on their vehicles even sooner by setting a new goal for the end of next year. Therefore, the brand hopes to make AEB standard on all new vehicle beginning with models for the 2018 model year. As of now, the only vehicles in the Toyota lineup that will not have standard AEB by then will be the 4Runner and the Mirai.
“We are proud to help lead this industry in standardizing these systems and bring automated braking to our customers sooner rather than later,” said Jim Lentz, CEO of Toyota Motor North America.
Keep checking back here to find out more.
“Toyota Will Make Automatic Braking Near-Standard By Next Year.”Ubergizmo. N.p., 28 Mar. 2016. Web. 28 Mar. 2016. <http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/03/toyota-will-make-automatic-braking-near-standard-by-next-year/>.
2016 World Green Car Awarded to Toyota Mirai
Years ago, Toyota changed the way we look at cars with the introduction of the Toyota Prius. Toyota is once again looking to make leaps and bounds in the realm of environmentally friendly cars with the hydrogen-powered Toyota Mirai. The Mirai has already been awarded as the 2016 World Green Car just the other day at the New York International Auto Show.
Bill Fay, group vice president and general manager, Toyota Division said, “With a range of over 300 miles per tank, a refueling time of under five minutes, and emissions that consist only of water vapor, Mirai is leading the world forward toward a more sustainable future.”
The Mirai beat out seven other vehicles from all across the globe to win the award. Nearly every aspect of the car from tailpipe emissions to fuel consumption were carefully considered to create a car that was more environmentally conscious than ever.
“Toyota Mirai Wins 2016 World Green Car | Toyota.” Toyota Mirai Wins 2016 World Green Car | Toyota. N.p., 24 Mar. 2016. Web. 25 Mar. 2016.
Serious Eats & Toyota Date Night Number 2
In one of our previous blogs we shared with you the first date night experience that was brought to couples in six different cities thanks to Serious Eats and Toyota. In this newest episode, we meet Jeannie and her husband Adam as they head off for their Serious Eats experience at a popular tapas restaurant in Boston, MA called Toro. This restaurant is run by Chef Jamie Bissonnette, who is all about finding new and inspiring ways to create exciting dishes that will appeal to the food lover in all of us. Everyone has different tastes and preferences when it comes to eating, and Chef Bissonnette is all about helping people to explore their tastes and create new and exciting food combinations based on individual preferences.
Throughout this episode, we also get to see how the Toyota Sienna helps to make this special date night even more memorable. To start, Chef Bissonnette uses this vehicle as he runs his daily errands picking up fresh ingredients that he will use to cook for his customers that night. He finds this vehicle so impressive that he even states that it is making him want to go out and buy a car for the first time in nearly ten years. Later, the Toyota Sienna serves as the official vehicle that chauffeurs Jeannie and Adam to their memorable evening.
2016 Toyota Sienna Page To Be Released
If you are in search of a minivan that can easily transport the whole family in comfort and style then you should head on over to Fiore Toyota and test drive the all-new 2016 Toyota Sienna. This fun and efficient minivan will be a great addition to any busy, growing family and we are sure you will agree once you see all that it has to offer. To help get the process started for you will be releasing a Research & Review page that will allow you to learn all about the details of this vehicle right from the comfort of your own home so that you will feel fully informed once you arrive at our dealership to take it out for a test drive. Look out for its arrival under our “Model Research” tab.
The Ultimate Date Night With Toyota & Serious Eats
Serious Eats has teamed up with Toyota in order to provide a memorable date night experience for couples in six different cities. All of the couples will be chauffeured around in an all-new Toyota Sienna as they are taken to one of the hottest restaurants in their city and be treated to a one-on-one culinary experience with the owner/head chef.
Toyota released a video that features one of these experience as the Toyota Sienna helped two couples — London and Justin and Sophie and Neal — make it to the Venice, California restaurant LEONA run by Chef Nyesha Arrington. Throughout their evening, they were treated to a multi-course meal that included gourmet food that Chef Nyesha created from inspiration from some of her favorite comfort foods. She also made sure to use all ingredients that she purchased at her local farmer’s market which is all part of her mission to provide her customers with what she calls “a hug from the inside”.
Learn more about Chef Nyesha and her cooking passion in the video below.
Toyota Provides Support To Safety City Program
Well before their 16th birthday, kids are learning driving habits through years of passengering with their parents and other adults in their lives that they frequently drive with. As we know, many of us do not always use the best driving habits when we do not think we are being critiqued. Most parents of course want their children to be as safe as possible and follow all the rules of the road once they get behind the wheel, but if years of watching bad habits have been instilled in them then it can be hard to break. This is why it is important to make sure that children are learning the proper safe driving techniques from an early age which is why Toyota has been supporting Safety City in Kentucky since it first opened up back in 1990.
At Safety City, kids in second and third grade can attend a free safety education program that combines student driving experiences with classroom learning to help provide them with real-world scenarios and instruction. The classroom topics covered through the program include Seatbelt Use, Traffic, and Pedestrian Safety.
The program was originally started as a partnership between the Lexington Police Department and Eastern Kentucky University and today it serves around 2,000 students per year. Toyota recently made a $49,000 donation to help Safety City purchase ten kid-size electric cars which will be replacing the fleet of vehicles that have been in use since the program first started.
For Toyota, supporting Safety City is second nature. “We believe everyone deserves to be safe, and we want to be a part of helping keep people safe, on and off the road,” said Wil James, president of Toyota’s Kentucky plant. “That’s a priority for us, and it’s why we’re investing in programs like Safety City.”
“Toyota Puts the Vroom in Safety Education Program Aimed at Putting Kids in the Driver’s Seat | Corporate.” Toyota USA Newsroom. N.p., 8 Mar. 2016. Web. 09 Mar. 2016. <http://pressroom.toyota.com/releases/toyota+safety+city+tmmk+march8.htm>.
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