For the Netherlands and Belgium (or rather: Europe) the name Toyota Corona is a sound from a distant past. 1982 was, for our part, the last Toyota Corona year. With that, the Corona story was over, you will think. Nothing is less true. Because Toyota's middle class was after the production stop of the T13 […] More
There are car anniversaries that somehow pass by fairly silently. Take the seventieth birthday of the Toyota Land Cruiser, for example, which was not celebrated with too much drum roll. It also fits the Toyota icon, because that is modest in all its grandeur. Or modest in grandeur. † More
Today it is exactly thirteen years ago that the legendary rally driver and Toyota Team Europe boss Ove Andersson passed away. It belongs in the motorsport hall of fame. Ove Andersson was the driving force behind Toyota's competition activities for more than thirty years, and under him the Japanese manufacturer became […] More
Finnish rally legend Hannu Mikkola passed away on Friday, February 26, 2021 at the age of 78. The 1983 world champion had been ill for some time and eventually lost his battle with cancer. The family has received a lot of support from the rally world. We look back on the impressive career of the eternally calm […] More
Spends these months Auto Motor Klassiek in the magazine attention to the rally history of Toyota. In a diptych we describe the background to the contemporary competition success of the largest manufacturer in the world. A success story that started in Belgium. This history is bursting with backstories. That is why we also hand out special events online that […] More
Spends these months Auto Motor Klassiek in the magazine attention to the rally history of Toyota. In a diptych we describe the background to the contemporary competition success of the largest manufacturer in the world. A success story that started in Belgium. This history is bursting with backstories. That is why we also hand out special events online that […] More
Spends these months Auto Motor Klassiek in the magazine attention to the rally history of Toyota. In a diptych we describe the background to the contemporary competition success of the largest manufacturer in the world. A success story that started in Belgium. This history is bursting with backstories. That is why we also hand out special events online that […] More
In 1982 Toyota Celica RA63 makes its WRC debut. The place of action is the 1982 Motogard in New Zealand. Björn Waldegård and Hans Thorszelius are ready for a result. And that is achieved. The Swedes give TTE the first WRC victory since 1975. TTE also takes second place, also thanks to a Swedish duo. More
One of the most remarkable WRC victories was Hannu Mikkola's in Finland, 1975. Fiat withdrew, and Mikkola had to look for a winning wheel. He found that with Ove Andersson, team principal of Team Toyota Europe. More
Just a few more days and 2020 will be ready. It was a year in which the world was gripped by COVID-19, in all its seriousness, in all its facets. A year too, in which working and living took on a whole new dimension. That also applied to myself. Fortunately, I was spared the necessary suffering […] More
"Sometimes, sometimes I miss him, my faithful comrade." It was the accompanying text to a photo of the Opel Astra Sports Edition II that I posted on Twitter. As if I foresaw it. Because two weeks later I received the announcement of an unexpectedly high cost item for the Delta. It was the introduction to […] More
It is September 24, 2020. The ringtone of my old trusty Samsung takes me out of concentration. Robin from the garage calls me way too early. Because: the earlier, the more trammelant. The reason for his call lies in my Delta. Robin hasn't said anything yet, but I already know enough. Not […] More
