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2023 Toyota GR Corolla Morizo Edition Review - Ridiculousness

The Truth About Cars

Toyota is a sleeping giant. Of late, they’ve outsourced their sporty cars to other automakers or stuck the TRD badge on things like the Camry to which no sane mind would think to look for sportiness. Disclaimer - I kinda dig the TRD Camry.& Disclaimer - I kinda dig the TRD Camry.& Count the doors. Only two seats?

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NASCAR embraces green cars

Green Cars News

Toyota and Lowe’s Motor Speedway unveiled an environmentally friendly Toyota Camry Hybrid that will serve as the pace car for the Coca-Cola 600 which takes place on May 24. Tags: Green cars Hybrid cars Latest news Toyota NASCAR pace car Toyota Camry Hybrid.

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

Green Car Congress

” [Note: In the first quarter of this year takes rates have been averaging around 8-12% for the Camry, Civic and Escape hybrid versions.]. The role of emotion in buying cars. Would you buy this vehicle? Third, Toyota has always been a top brand in quality performance. Not exactly a value proposition.

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LA show displays green car ‘glimpse into the future’

Green Cars News

Hybrids still represent the largest volume of “green” vehicles including the popular Toyota Prius, Honda Insight and Ford Fusion hybrids. As consumers start to show a renewed interested in buying vehicles, the auto show is. Toyota Camry Hybrid. Toyota Highlander Hybrid. Toyota Prius Hybrid.

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Toyota Concerned About Market Viability of Plug-ins, Sees Clear Path to Commercialization of Fuel Cell Technology in 2015

Green Car Congress

As Toyota learned with the introduction of the Prius and its efforts on the 2002 RAV4 EV, O’Brien said, it is difficult to force technology adoption by consumers. It is not enough to build niche vehicles that only a few can afford to buy or fulfill only a small subset of customer needs. Michael O’Brien.

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IIHS Says Its Crash Test Study Suggests Small Cars Cant Protect People in Front-to-Front Crashes as Well as Bigger, Heavier Models

Green Car Congress

The Institute chose pairs of 2009 models from Daimler, Honda, and Toyota because these automakers have micro and mini models that earn good frontal crashworthiness ratings, based on the Institute’s offset test into a deformable barrier. The Camry is acceptable. There are good reasons people buy minicars. IIHS video.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Saab GM-owned company exploring PHEVs Joint Venture with Volvo and others to research PHEVs Toyota 500 PHEV 2010-model Priuses with lithium batteries to be leased for fleet tests in 2009 (150 in U.S.) This was starting to hurt because it was one reason for a sudden surge in Toyotas market share." People wont buy a full car.

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