Her other co-anchors at KCBS included Chris Conangla, Ross Becker, Michael Tuck, Jerry Dunphy and Paul Dandridge.

Initially anchoring at 6 and 11 p.m., by the early to mid 1990s Toyota was relegated to the morning and midday editions of Channel 2 Action News.

In 1981, Toyota, along with reporters Bill Sing, Nancy Yoshihara, David Kishiyama, Frank Kwan, and Dwight Chuman, founded the Asian American Journalists Association.

Los Angeles punk rock band The Dickies recorded a song called "(I'm Stuck in a Pagoda with) Tricia Toyota."

[7] Toyota is also mentioned in "The L.A. Song," a song by L.A. hip-hop group People Under The Stairs, from their 2002 album O.S.T..[8] The TV news reporter character Tricia Takanawa on Family Guy may have been inspired at least in part by Toyota and KTTV Fox 11 reporter Tricia Takasugi has also been suggested as a source for the character.