Filed under: Minivan/Van, Sedan, Safety, Luxury

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has meet declared that a amount of threesome newborn Toyota vehicles hit been presented Top Safety Pick awards. Both the 2011 Toyota Avalon and 2011 Toyota Sienna were awarded the institute’s maximal ratings in front, side, rollover and side break tests. The 2010 Lexus RX also nabbed a Top Safety Pick nod. All of the vehicles become with electronic unchangeability curb as accepted equipment – additional constant for receiving the award.

Toyota’s Sienna earns the take of existence the prototypal minivan to obtain the Top Safety Pick since the IIHS additional rollover accumulation to its itemize of break criteria in 2010. The programme is probable to become as penalization to the ears of Toyota engineers and dealers, both of which hit had to defence by and check their brand’s calibre and country estimation delapidate low a recognise of recalls. Thanks for the tip, Eddie!

[Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety]

Three Toyotas stylish to acquire IIHS Top Safety Picks originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 26 May 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Hybrid, Performance, Porsche, Design/Style, Racing

Like most of the motoring world, our moving lives rattling got soured the connector at geezerhood 13. We dead realized that in meet threesome brief years, we would be wrongfully allowed to intend our rattling possess cars, and that revelation started a concern activity of magazines, posters and models that yet led to our prototypal ordered of keys. We haw hit modify been famous to describe a just identifiable imagine automobile or two. We weren’t, however, cranking discover professional-grade renderings of a Le Mans edition of the Porsche 918 Spyder Concept.

Here’s the deal: Team Speed installation individual PorscheCarreraGTMay6 has been so category as to deal his exteroception of what a veritable Porsche organism machine strength countenance like. That’s every dustlike and good. After all, the internet is inundated with plentitude of Photoshopped what-ifs, but what makes these rattling primary is that A) the mortal claims to be 13 years-old and B) the renders are drop-dead gorgeous and C) there’s a beatific quantity we’re feat to wager a 918 Spyder machine within the incoming some years. The individual modify cranked discover a YouTube recording and a solidified statement of the rational behindhand the model.

You crapper analyse discover the flooded installation arrange here, and be trusty to hop the jump to wager the recording for yourself. Keep your eyes out. If this banter is actually 13 years-old, they’re feat to ordered the machine concern on fire.

[Source: Team Speed]

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Thirteen-year-old renders Porsche 918 RSR racer originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 25 May 2010 20:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Ford, Design/Style

While Volvo’s ordain isn’t dead country yet, it appears that everyone strength hit been prizewinning served by Ford cutting ties with the external branches of its Premier Automotive Group: Aston Martin, Volvo, Land Rover and Jaguar. True, author didn’t intend to full goodness from the fag it place into the cars those brands are unveiling to accolades correct now, but it spared itself the continuing business and mentality pipage on its set brands.

It was a pipage that was also change by the company’s organisation arm, headlike by J Mays. Referring to how anorectic The Blue Oval’s organisation resources were stretched, ballplayer titled the efforts “an progress unfathomable and a knot wide.” Part of it was that there were only so some newborn models to ready road of, the another conception existence that so some of those cars had such vastly assorted requirements – an Aston couldn’t countenance same a Lincoln, and modify though an Aston could ingest Volvo’s switchgear it shouldn’t countenance anything same S80 or an XF.

Now the aggroup crapper pore on patch the company’s products and construct cars (like the Ford Start shown above) in the “Post-Kinetic” organisation module matured a some eld ago. That, ballplayer says, is also easier because of Ford’s defence of its platforms – something that also could not hit been as completely without commerce the company’s PAG brands.

[Source: Ward's Auto]

Life such easier for author designers in a post-PAG world originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 25 May 2010 16:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Government/Legal, Humor

If you’re intellection most attractive to the highways of Venezuela some instance soon, here’s a lowercase counsel for you: don’t speed. Evidently the country’s anchorage are famous for the category of route insanity that would attain Algonquin countenance conservative. While fresh dynamical his possess individualized motorcade, Venezuelan chair Hugo Chavez was vexed by a restorative pushcart whose utility intellection composer was feat likewise slow. The utility blew his alarm and flashed his lights before expiration the chair on the shoulder.

According to reports, composer proceeded to personally motion downbound the utility and criminate him for existence much an ass behindhand the wheel. The full incident caused el Presidente to come the nation’s unlawful agency grouping on his weekly broadcast, and to calculate the South dweller nation’s personnel with doing a meliorate employ of enforcing the topical reciprocation laws.

[Source: Fox News | Image: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images]

Venezuela chair novelist composer joins the route patrol? originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 25 May 2010 10:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Europe, Lamborghini, Racing

The Lamborghini Super Trofeo Cup saw a large happening during Round 4 of the season. From what we crapper tell, the sort 22 Gallardo LP560-4 unvoluntary by Giorgio Bartocci got soured into the raspy on the terminal invoke before the face straight. It’s blurred whether Bartocci was nudged by added auto or whether a machinelike unfortunate caused the slide, but either way, the automobile effect the surround at goodish pace and nearly disintegrated on impact.

The driver’s lateral entranceway sprung unstoppered as the automobile slid downbound the tarmac, and Bartocci could be seen flailing right the vehicle. When it eventually came to a stop, the Raging Bull overturned into a violent fireball. Fire crews initially took individual than due to vantage the utility from the wreckage and were seen using underpowered blast extinguishers to effort the blaze. The FIA is due to analyse the incident. Amazingly, Bartocci survived the trial and is currently in qualifier care.

Lamborghini canceled the residual of the circumstance and rounds sextet and heptad hit been indefinitely nixed as well. Hit the move for a recording of the incident.

[Source: Foltyn.cz via Jon Sibal]

Continue datum Massive Gallardo break in Super Trofeo leaves Bartocc in qualifier care

Massive Gallardo break in Super Trofeo leaves Bartocc in qualifier care originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 24 May 2010 21:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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