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It's been months since we've seen the 2021 Toyota Sienna, but engineers have been busy as the next-generation minivan has progressed from a mule to a proper prototype.

A bad parking job is going viral as a woman almost caused her Toyota C-HR to plunge 50 feet (15 meters) to the ground below.

A tuning shop by the name of V-Spec Performance in Melbourne, Australia is home to one of the rarest and most desirable Nissan Skyline GT-R models on earth: an R33 GT-R 400R.

A Toyota Camry driver unwittingly pulled off a stunt worthy of the Dukes of Hazzard as they jumped their car over two rows of parked vehicles.

Think subcompact hot hatchbacks and the first ones that come to mind are probably the Volkswagen Polo GTI and Ford Fiesta ST.

The 2020 Subaru Forester has received a new special edition model in Japan called X-Edition.

The 26B rotary engine used by the Mazda 767 and 787B race cars is arguably the most iconic and desirable powertrain from the Japanese carmaker. This RX-7 features a custom 26B and was recently featured over at the Hoonigan Daily Transmission channel on YouTube.

You know those stickers that say ‘no airbags, we die like real men'? Well, it's going to be a horrible death should you be in a car that lacks this safety feature, which is mandatory in Western markets.

Nissan's new CEO Makoto Uchida laid out his strategy to bring the Japanese car maker back to form, but also retain its independence within the Renault alliance.

Honda has revised the pricing of the Passport for the 2020MY, making it a bit more expensive compared to the outgoing iteration.

YOKOHAMA — Nissan is committed to its automaking alliance with Renault but will not look to deepen its capital ties with the French automaker any time soon, its new CEO said on Monday. On his first day in the new position, chief executive Makoto Uchida also pledged to repair profitability at Japan's No. 2 automaker and said setting realistic targets would be key toward that goal, as it tries to make a clean break from the leadership of former chairman Carlos Ghosn. "Closer capital ties with Renault are not a focus in the short term," he told reporters. Uchida became CEO of Nissan on Dec. 1, as the car maker tries to recover from a profit slump and draw a line under a year of turmoil after the Ghosn scandal. The ousted chairman is fighting financial misconduct charges in Japan. One of the new CEO's big tasks is to salvage ties with Renault, which have deteriorated since Ghosn's ouster as chairman of both companies. Renault holds a 43.4% stake in Nissan after it saved the Japanese automaker from financial ruin two decades ago, and has pushed for the two companies to merge. In rejecting a notion of a merger with Renault, Uchida, 53, echoes his predecessor Hiroto Saikawa, who stepped down in September. He added that the alliance must re-think how it can serve all of its three members, which also includes Mitsubishi Motors. "The alliance has to benefit each of its partners in terms of revenue and profit," he said. "We need to re-evaluate what has worked and what hasn't worked in the alliance in the past few years." The CEO called for Nissan to set "challenging but achievable" targets, adding that this and the launch of more new car models and vehicle technologies would be key to its financial recovery. Nissan is bracing for its lowest annual profit in 11 years and has slashed its dividend by 65%. Its struggles come at a time when car companies desperately need scale to keep up with sweeping technological changes like electric vehicles and ride-hailing. "Somewhere along the way we created a culture of setting targets which could not be achieved," Uchida said, adding that this had resulted in a focus on short-term results. "Years of this had led Nissan to its current "difficult situation," he said, using heavy vehicle discounting in the U.S. market as an example of how aggressive sales targets to grow market share had deteriorated the company's brand.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the industry’s most beloved and famed performance car families. We are of course talking about Nissan’s GT-R– models, a car that will be celebrated at next month’s NISMO Festival in Japan alongside the Nissan Z family.

Mazda is looking at its options when it comes to the next generation of the MX-5, as they search for ways to make it better and maybe even use some form of electrification.

Japan’s Honda Vezel subcompact crossover, which we know as the H-RV in the rest of the world, is the latest model to get the Modulo X sporty treatment in Japan.