Toy­ota has ordered a halt to all TRD Aurion sales after a sin­gle fail­ure occurred with a con­rod and pis­ton part­ing company.

Toy­ota are inves­ti­gat­ing all TRD Auri­ons that have cur­rently been deliv­ered and in pro­duc­tion, and did not state when the sales halt would be lifted.

[Source: Carsales Net­work]

CarAd­vice have tested the new TRD Aurion. We recently talked about the 241KW super­charged TRD Aurion and it’s big-​​power-​​on-​​the-​​fronts idea and also about how expen­sive this per­for­mance fam­ily barge is. What we didn’t expect was how bad CarAd­vice found the FWD, or the news that the auto­matic, even in man­ual mode, shifts slowly.

For any­one who’s dri­ven any type of per­for­mance car, quick shifts are what makes or breaks a spir­ited drive through the hills, off the line or even down to the local shops for the gro­ceries — slow shifts kill a per­for­mance car.

Give the review a read. It could be the harsh­est you’ll read, but we think it’s right on the money.