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Subaru BRZ Coupe arrives

Subaru BRZ arrives The Subaru BRZ Coupe – Subaru’s take on the Toyota GT 86 – has been revealed ahead of its Tokyo debut. So the Subaru BRZ has finally arrived in production form ahead of the Tokyo Motor Show. And it’s all a bit of an anti-climax.

2012 Toyota Tacoma to start at $17,685

Prices on the 2012 Toyota Tacoma pickup will start at $17,685, including an $810 destination charge, the company said on Wednesday. That's a $510 increase over last year's price. The new model sports a refreshed exterior with a redesigned hood, grille, headlights, upper and lower bumper, fog lights and antenna.

Video: Jaguar's Julian Thomson on the importance of design values

Jaguar's Head of Advanced Design, Julian Thomson, appeared at this month's PSFK Conference in London giving a talk on design values. Thomson's talk, ‘Concepting Dreams, Making Reality Happen', dealt with questions of creating a design story as well as how Jaguar uses the value of its heritage while keeping things original and new. Thomson – the man behind the 2010 C-X75 and the recently revealed F-Type – said, "You can't get a good design story if you don't look at your heritage, where you came from, where your values came from." He went on to discuss the ‘sad years of Jaguar', from around 1968 to 2004 where Jaguar was too timid to develop and "essentially made the same-looking car." He put this down to a reluctance on Jaguar's part to move too far away from its successful models and, quite interestingly, because "not only did we start doing market research, we started asking Americans what they wanted." Watch the full video on the left.