Scion announces killing off for two models

Scion is one of the companies riding the “magic” of the Toyobaru sports coupe. That’s great stuff, but not all news coming from them are the same. Toyota’s entry level brand for the young will soon kill off two of their models, the xD and the xB. Whereas the xD was not a commercial success [...]


2012 Ford Focus hits a recall

Ford sales statistics, particularly in the US are the envy of pretty much the entire automotive industry and they’re not exactly shy about showing it off. There’s another statistic about the Blue Oval that isn’t so showoff worthy and is, unfortunately, what we’re going to look into. Despite Toyota’s leading PR issues last year, Ford [...]


Hyundai Elantra not as cheap a car as you’d think

When the Japanese car makers started hitting the U.S. market their main selling point was the low prices they could offer customers. Recently, as the Koreans got themselves a great economical boom they earned their notoriety for pretty much the same reason. A new study done by Edmunds for USA Today revealed something else though, [...]


Toyota reports large pre-orders amount for new Aqua hybrid

The Japanese people from Toyota announced that the all-new Aqua hybrid model received over 60,000 pre-orders even that the company expected to sell around 12,000 units per month. The new Toyota Aqua is a hybrid model which is known globally as Prius C and entered the Japanese market on December 26. Under the bonnet sits [...]


Toyota Prius C gets the Sport Package from TRD

TRD, the racing division of Toyota decided to unveil today the Sport Package for the Prius C hybrid, a model known and sold in Japan as Aqua hybrid. At the exterior, TRD prepared an aerodynamic package including LED daytime running lights, side skirts, roof spoiler, new front apron with air vents but also a rear [...]


Lexus LX gets facelift in time for Detroit Motor Show

It’s hard not to take a stab at Americans and their love for oversized SUVs when Lexus announces they’ll be coming to the Detroit Motor Show with an updated LX. However, in the interest of fairness, we’ll say that the Lexus LX is one worthy piece of machinery, despite having mostly frivolous uses. The facelift [...]


Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid to be unveiled in Detroit

Volkswagen, one of the leading advocates of diesel powerplants in order to achieve fuel economy will be coming to the Detroit Motor Show with two different ideas. The first of which will be a new, still rather shady and unfamiliar, electric concept. It’s supposed to be an electric-car that isn’t based on any current production [...]


2010-2011 Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan get the recall hammer

Thanks to Toyota’s disaster of not that long ago, news about massive recalls were getting treated as if they were the daily usual. Recently we’ve noticed a considerable drop in such notices but they’re still going on. The latest of which comes from the Blue Oval’s stable as their Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan sedans [...]


2012 Toyota Camry arrives in Australia

Toyota officially announced that the new Camry, a model which reached its seventh generation, finally reached Australia. With a starting price of AU$30,490, the Camry sedan will be built in Melbourne following to be offered locally but also exported in several other countries such as Saudi Arabia or New Zealand. “Camry will be a significant [...]


The new Subaru BRZ to be priced from $24,000 in the U.S.

This is not the first time when we talk about the new Subaru BRZ but today we got some fresh and quite important details on the Japanese model. To begin with, the new Subaru BRZ will be available in two versions, namely the Premium and Limited series with pricing starting from around $24,000 for the [...]


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