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Toyota prices redesigned Avalon, Sienna minivan w/Auto Access Seat [w/video]
Posted by: | CommentsFiled under: Car Buying , Minivan/Van , Sedan , Toyota , Specialty , Luxury 2011 Toyota Avalon – Click above for high-res image gallery Toyota has officially announced pricing for the updated 2011 Avalon which made its public debut at this year’s Chicago Auto Show . Additionally, pricing has been released for the Sienna with Auto Access Seat, which is the first factory-installed power access seat available in a minivan. The Avalon, which goes on sale later this month, starts at $32,245, which is the same starting MSRP as the outgoing 2010 model. Higher-grade Limited models start at $35,485, which represents an increase of $200 over the 2010 model
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Toyota prices redesigned Avalon, Sienna minivan w/Auto Access Seat [w/video]
First Drive: 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty brings the biggest tools
Posted by: | CommentsFiled under: Truck , Work , Ford , First Drive , Off-Road 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty – Click above for high-res image gallery It’s a guy thing. Tim Allen understands. If you’ve got a job to do, you need the right tool. As guy logic goes, the bigger and more powerful the tool, the better.
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First Drive: 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty brings the biggest tools
First Drive: 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty brings the biggest tools
Posted by: | CommentsFiled under: Truck , Work , Ford , First Drive , Off-Road 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty – Click above for high-res image gallery It’s a guy thing. Tim Allen understands. If you’ve got a job to do, you need the right tool. As guy logic goes, the bigger and more powerful the tool, the better.
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First Drive: 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty brings the biggest tools
Ford to expand electric and hybrid offerings to Europe from 2011
Posted by: | CommentsFiled under: Hybrid , Geneva Motor Show , Technology , Ford , Electric Ford Transit Connect Electric – Click above for high-res image gallery Ford has big plans for electrification of its fleet over the next decade, and while most of the emphasis has been on North America so far, Europe will be joining in on the party starting in 2011. Nancy Gioia has announced that between 2011 and 2013, Ford of Europe will get five new hybrid and battery electric models added to its lineup. About six to nine months after each of the new models rolls out in North America, they will be introduced in Europe.
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Ford to expand electric and hybrid offerings to Europe from 2011
Geneva Preview: Fisker Karma’s "advanced aluminum space frame"
Posted by: | CommentsFiled under: Hybrid , Sedan , Performance , Geneva Motor Show , Technology , Fisker , Electric , Luxury Fisker Karma – Click above for high-res image gallery At the Chicago Auto Show last week, Fisker Automotive brought along the Karma Sunset with a new black exterior we hadn’t seen before. For the Geneva Motor Show the automaker is going in the other direction and will be showing off the “advanced aluminum space frame” that underpins the Karma and gives the plug-in hybrid “new levels of rigidity and strength” for “world-class ride and handling characteristics.” Here’s how Fisker describes the frames, which will be made by Valmet Automotive in Uusikaupunki, Finland, in a statement: Though it forms the foundation of a large sedan, the Karma space frame’s rigidity is exceptional even when compared to today’s sports cars. By utilizing 5,000- and 6,000-series aluminum alloys and a unique extrusion-intensive architecture, the Fisker engineering team achieved the best balance between weight and size .
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Geneva Preview: Fisker Karma’s "advanced aluminum space frame"
Core-Toons breaks down the 2010 Chicago Auto Show
Posted by: | CommentsFiled under: Chicago Auto Show , Geneva Motor Show , Etc. , Humor Field notes on the 2010 Chicago Auto Show – Click above for the series Without doubt we have never come across a more comically true summary of the auto show experience. A nine-panel series on the experience of the Chicago Auto Show by the magnificently named Lunchbreath is so spot on that it’s already giving us PTSD about the Geneva Motor Show , and Geneva hasn’t even happened yet. From the camera phones to photo profiling to that guy in the Escalade, it’s all in there.
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Core-Toons breaks down the 2010 Chicago Auto Show