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2023 Toyota Highlander Review - Choices

The Truth About Cars

Minivans are better than crossovers. In a roughly similar package, a minivan gives a family more space for both people and cargo than a three-row crossover, as the floor is lower. Toyota is one of the few with both. Toyota is one of the few with both. For the 2023 model year, Toyota has dumped the venerable 3.5-liter

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Junkyard Find: 1996 Toyota Camry Wagon

The Truth About Cars

Toyota sold new Camry station wagons in North America from the 1987 through 1996 model years. Car shoppers on our continent had been steadily losing interest in wagons since the year of Peak Wagon (1977) , with de-wagon-ification really accelerating when minivan sales took off in the 1980s and the SUV craze took full effect in the 1990s.

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Why Ioniq and Leaf didn't win: notes on Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2018

Green Car Reports

The 2018 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid, a plug-in version of the much-lauded new minivan, won our Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2018 award because it brings a partially zero-emission vehicle into an entirely new market segment.

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CyberVan! Li Auto’s Mega MPV launches in China alongside ambitious EV expectations

Baua Electric

Priced at over RMB 560,000 ($77,800), Li Auto expects the luxury minivan to be a top seller in its segment, contributing to its target of 800,000 vehicles sold this year. Even with the wrap, it was clear that the BEV had a unique van-like shape, almost like an overgrown Toyota Prius. Not bad for a glorified minivan.

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Japan Green-Car Subsidy Boosts Vehicle Sales 12.9% In July

Green Car Congress

Automakers “are stepping up marketing activity, urging customers who are still driving old vehicles to buy new ones before the subsidies expire,” says an official at Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Toyota Motor Corp. jump partly on the popularity of the Fit subcompact and the Step WGN minivan. enjoyed a 19.1% Honda Motor Co.

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News: Mid-Year EV Sales Hit Peak

Clean Fleet Report

The best-selling plug-in hybrid was the Jeep Wrangler 4xe while hybrids were dominated by Toyota/Lexus models that took 55% of that market segment. While pure EV sales were up compared to last year, plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), hybrids (HEVs) and fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) were down. Leaf to Leave?

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Automotive Market Research Perspectives on Selling Green in a Try-to-Survive Market

Green Car Congress

The role of emotion in buying cars. He shared research that “ People assume a quieter minivan is a safer minivan. Would you buy this vehicle? Third, Toyota has always been a top brand in quality performance. Edwards and Miller both emphasized the importance of a buyer’s emotion in purchasing a vehicle.

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