<![CDATA[Jalopnik: Matrix]]> http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: Matrix]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/matrix http://jalopnik.com/tag/matrix <![CDATA[It's the Subaru Matrix... whoa!]]> Do not try to bend the Subaru Matrix — that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no Subaru Matrix. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5836915&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Toyota unveils 2011 Matrix to raucous indifference]]> Did you know they're still making the Toyota Matrix? The fact Toyota's unveiling a "2011" model must mean they are. Still no more XRS option, but they've got a four-speed automatic transmission for both trim-levels! [Toyota] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5755027&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Toyota Recalls 1.13 Million Corollas, Knuckles Under To U.S. Again]]> Toyota says today it will recall 1.13 million 2005-2008 model year Corollas and Matrix to fix engine computers that could fail and stall the cars. Toyota had argued it wasn't a safety problem. NHTSA didn't agree. [Toyota] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5622732&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[JD Power: Hyundai Genesis Highest-Ranked Newly-Launched Vehicle]]> The 2009 Hyundai Genesis ranks highest in launch performance among vehicle models introduced during the first ten months of 2008, according to J.D. Power and Associates' 2009 Vehicle Launch Index released today. Hyundai? Yes, Hyundai. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5320256&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Hummer Tops Recent Study Of Most Ticketed Vehicles]]> A study of traffic tickets revealing the most and least ticketed vehicles reinforces obvious stereotypes: Hummer owners are arrogant, self-centered and over-indulgent, while drivers of Buick Park Avenues appear to have no discernible pulse. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5133026&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[2009 Toyota Matrix Ad Campaign Prank Oriented]]> We were lured to Toyota's 2009 Matrix website by way of flash video ad featuring an old lanky black man in a suit wearing tin foil shoes talking about aliens. That seems to have been sane for the marketing Toyota is using for online promotion of its new miniwagon. The site yourotheryou.com is based primarily around the pretense of 'pranking' a friend somehow but only if you hand over your and their personal contact information. We're sure it will only be used for the pranking, absolutely no targeted mailers right. In any case, we decided it may be fun to 'prank' ourselves and see just how clever or lame this is. The game will unfold over the course of five days, beginning today. Always helpful, Toyota has provided a schedule to track the progress of our self prankulation. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=367404&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[LA Auto Show: 2009 Toyota Matrix Rally Sport]]> Supercharged? Check. Intercooled? Big time. 19" Wheels and beefier brakes? You know it. Diffuser? Apparently. Hood scoop? Yeah. Roof scoop? Hell yeah. Why, it's the new Toyota Matrix Rally Sport. Get 'em while they're hot! Make the jump to read the press release. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=322698&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[2009 Pontiac Vibe Revealed On Video]]> More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=319483&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[SEMA 2007: Toyota Matrix XRS Revealed]]> In celebration of Halloween and 50 years in America Toyota revealed the stock versions of the 2009 Corolla and Corolla Matrix. We looked for the aforementioned scantily clad sirens and nitrous bottles, but all we heard were scary noises. Both cars were said to have super aftermarket potential! The MillenWorks Matrix was over in another hall, but we did catch the stock XRS. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=317285&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[2009 Toyota Matrix Unveiled...and Pimped]]> UPDATE: The new 2009 Toyota Corolla was also unveiled — all the shots are here. In addition to the over-pimped 2009 Toyota Corolla we saw a few minutes ago, the Toyota folks also unveiled an over-pimped 2009 Toyota Matrix. Yes, this is the new Matrix, only in an options-addition mode. We're waiting on Bumbeck's shots of the Toyota Performance Parts delete option model from the Hilton across the street — feel free to check these shots out while you wait.
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=317318&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[2009 Toyota Matrix...Again, Sorta]]> Not only is the new 2009 Toyota Corolla dressed up as a spooky ghost here at SEMA, but so's its platform-prostitute lifemate, the 2009 Toyota Matrix. That's right, Toyota's continuing the dressed-up-as-a-ghost Halloween theme as here's the new and soon-to-be revealed Toyota Matrix looking all ghoulishly adorable outside of the convention center here in Vegas. We wonder whether seeing the Matrix will end up being a trick or a treat come Wednesday night — judging by the few details we're able to see of the new Matrix, we're thinking maybe a little of both. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=316813&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The 2009 Toyota Matrix Is A Scary Ghost]]> We told you yesterday that Toyota plans to reveal the new-for-2009 Matrix at SEMA on the last day of October. What we didn't see was the press shot accompanying the release. That would be the boo-tiful shot above of the new '09 Matrix all dressed up to go trick-or-treating in Las Vegas on the occasion of its Halloween reveal. Although someone should really warn the Matrix about the Vegas definition of the word "trick" before he starts to offer up the choice to drunk pedestrians on the strip. [via World Car Fans] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=304458&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What Car Makes You The Saddest?]]> Beat this: the year was 2002, sink or swim time for old Pontiac. They needed something, anything, to bolster their "excitement" branding because for the past ten years the division had done little but crap out plastic-clad rentals. Why not a sporty little wagon? Sure, the kids will love it, families on a budget will love it and people who have to haul a lot of lightweight junk around (like my friend Peter the photographer) would be all over it. Obviously, this calls for a clean sheet design, right? No, Pontiac is part of GM, the largest car maker the world has had ever known. Therefor Vibe was (and still is) nothing more than a re-skinned and re-badged Toyota Matrix. And what's a Toyota Matrix? Glad you asked. Like a Lexus R330 is actually a Camry, the Matrix is nothing more than a boxy, jacked up Corolla. To recap, GM's youth-oriented "Excitement" division hangs a new nose off a fat Japanese economy box that delivers Novocaine instead of thrills and almost mendaciously names it, "Vibe." But, that's not why I'm so sad. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=298889&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Oh, What Higher Prices! Toyota Edges Stickers Up On Seven Models]]> The front office in Toyota City appears to have said "Hai!" and green lighted the NorAm branch of the super best number one awesome automaker from Japan to raise prices on seven ToMoCo models. According to the Associated Press,
"The average price increase on the models was $136, or about 0.7%.
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=222226&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Spy Photos: 2008 Toyota Matrix? 2008 Pontiac Vibe? We Report, You Decide]]> Sometimes a spy photog gets a bit too confident in what they think they're seeing — and sometimes forget that they've got a heavily camo'ed concept sitting in front of them — and really, as is the case here, who really knows what the hell it is. Edmunds and other sites are reporting the shots they've got are of the 2008 Pontiac Vibe — including a "high-performance" version. We've no idea how someone would know that just from these pics, but whatevs, we'd buy it if an "authority" told us that. Another authority on the subject's got their own take on the picture: More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=207160&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Spec It Up! Toyota Matrix M-Theory]]> Fans of the Toyota Matrix — you must know who you are — will likely be overjoyed with the model's new M-Theory package for the 2007 model year. With all-wheel drive and Matrix XRS models getting the axe for '07, the company's filling the higher-spec gap with a sport edition it hopes will pull down the average age of Matrix buyers from around 48 to somewhere in the high 46s. More »
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