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Toyota Australia creates Big Red Ute for The Wiggles

Toyota Australia has announced its latest partnership with children’s entertainment group The Wiggles. Toyota also presented The Wiggles with a brand-new, custom-made Big Red Ute stage car developed by the Product, Planning, and Development department.

Victorian minister supporting student’s road safety education

Toyota Australia hosted more than 70 year-ten students from the Australian International Academy at a Road Safety Education (RSE) RYDA workshop at the company’s Centre of Excellence in Altona, Melbourne.  The Victorian Minister for Roads and Road Safety, Melissa Horne, attended the event to observe the RYDA workshop's impact on students.

Developing skills and employment for Indigenous youth

Not-for-profit motorsport organisation Racing Together, has selected a new cohort of entrants to its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth motorsport program, following an Open Day in Townsville in October.Racing Together was started in 2020 by motorsport identities Garry and Monique Connelly as a way to address almost non-existent levels of participation by Indigenous youth in motorsport.The new Racing Together Team of Indigenous boys and girls aged between 12 and 17 will build, prepare and race a car in the Queensland Excel Racing Series, while they complete their education.Toyota Australia is one supporter of Racing Together and Toyota Australia chief marketing officer Vin Naidoo says it was fantastic to see the program take on a new cohort from the Townsville area."Toyota supports, and is involved in, motorsport at all levels across the globe and Racing Together does an incredible job to inspire and encourage Indigenous youth to get involved," Naidoo says."As we have seen through our own experience with the TGRA 86 Series, motorsport, particularly at a grassroots level, is open to anyone with a passion for racing and this program not only gets Indigenous kids immersed in all aspects of motorsport, it gives them the skills and contacts for potential employment in the industry," he says.

Readers Digest survey names Toyota most trusted car brand

A Once again Toyota has been name Australia's most trusted car brand in the annual Reader's Digest trusted brands survey.This is the 17th consecutive year that Toyota Australia has been recognised as the most trusted automotive brand by consumers and readers of the publication.The national survey,…