| Toyota freshens Lexus image to entice younger carbuyers |
Aug 23rd, 2013 |
The special lounges, the first of which is opening next week in Tokyo's fashionable Aoyama district, are designed to look more like a chic home than a standard showroom. In fact, only one vehicle can be displayed at a time. What Toyota Motor Corp. is calling a "luxury-brand experience space" is mostly given over to serving espresso and displaying cool curiosities: a pair of old Ray ...
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| Gordon Murray South African Designer Of McLaren F1 Says Someone Bought The Design For His Tiny City Cars PHOTOS |
Aug 23rd, 2013 |
Gordon Murray's city cars are small enough that three fill a standard parking space. The T.25 is 7.9 feet long; the T27 is 8.2 feet long. A standard parking space is nine feet wide, so parallel spaces would allow Murray's car to park perpendicular to the curb in many ...
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| Ontario aims to lower auto insurance 8 in a year |
Aug 23rd, 2013 |
A man calls his insurance company after a thunderstorm damaged his car. Ontario has pledged auto insurance rates will decline by 8 per cent in the coming year. (Associated ...
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| Toyota Lets Dealers Drop Scion Without Penalties |
Aug 23rd, 2013 |
With Scion sales down 1.8% through July -- in a market up 8.4% -- Toyota told its dealers they could drop the flagging youth brand without any penalty. ...
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| Plug Power fuel cells to get a test drive in refrigerated trucks |
Aug 23rd, 2013 |
Plug Power fuel cells can be used to power the refrigeration units in trucks hauling, fruits and vegetable and other goods that must be kept chilled or frozen during transport from distribution centers to ...
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| Tata Motors Jamshedpur plant to remain closed for three days |
Aug 23rd, 2013 |
Tata Motors will observe a three-day block closure at its Jamshedpur plant from August 29, company sources said today. "Keeping in view the ...
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| Cut to auto insurance rates will take two years Ontario Liberals say |
Aug 23rd, 2013 |
Ontario's Liberal government will take two years to cut auto insurance rates by 15 per cent - double the time demanded by the New Democratic Party in its budget deal with the Liberals earlier this year.The NDP voted in favour of the minority Liberals' budget - allowing the government to survive - in part because the Grits agreed to the left-wing party's demand for lower auto ...
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| August car sales on track to be best since 2006 |
Aug 23rd, 2013 |
The 2013 Chevrolet Spark was unveiled at the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles November 16, 2011. Sales of small cars, like the Spark and Sonic, have surged along with trucks and crossover vehicles and U.S. automakers expect August sales to be the best since 2006. There may be all sorts of worrying signs about the economy but you could not tell that by visiting U.S. car showrooms. Sales of new ...
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| 2013 Dodge Charger Test Car Gallery |
Aug 23rd, 2013 |
charges to the front of the large-car class. Wiesenfelder tested an all-wheel-drive Charger R/T and found it took a backseat only to the newly redesigned 2014 Chevrolet Impala; the Charger was redesigned in 2011 and added new powertrains the following year, but remains relatively the same for 2013. The all-wheel-drive R/T's 5.7-liter V-8 is good for 370 horsepower, 395 pounds-feet of torque ...
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| Americans Less Worried About Threats on the Road |
Aug 23rd, 2013 |
According to AAA, motorists are growing complacent about safety risks on the road. During the last four years, the agency's Foundation for Traffic Safety studied drivers' responses to safety issues like drunk and distracted driving, and found that concern is declining. Is that because the roads are getting safer? No -- traffic-related deaths are actually on the rise. The agency ...
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