Filed under: Sedan, Plants/Manufacturing, Toyota

Toyota is allowing its North dweller teams a taste more immunity to physique cars that prizewinning meet the mart in which they work. Earlier in the year, Toyota declared that dweller designers would be more adjusted in to help development, and today comes articulate that the maker module no individual be commercialism Japanese-built Camry sedans into our market. Instead, play with the 2012 Camry, the favourite mid-size litter module be shapely Stateside.

Toyota aims to delude 360,000 examples of the Camry per year. In visit to display sufficiency units, Toyota module physique the automobile at both its Georgetown, Kentucky being and Subaru’s gathering artefact in Indiana. By antiquity the Camry in the U.S., the maker module be attempting to equilibrize losses finished dollar-yen mercantilism rates patch also providing a increase to topical creation facilities.

Toyota to kibosh commercialism Camry models from Japan originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Frankfurt Motor Show, Coupe, Hybrid, Performance, Jaguar

If you’re wondering most the forthcoming of the XK, this isn’t it. No, what Jaguar is ordered to expose at the Frankfurt Motor Show incoming hebdomad is farther more ambitious. This is Jag’s Porsche Cayman-fighting two-seater – a Jaguar coupe you crapper actually afford.

Powered by a emotional 3.0-liter V6 swing discover 376 H.P. and 332 pound-feet of torque, the C-X16 construct takes Jaguar’s enthusiastic acquisition of supercharging into the incoming century with the constituent of a “Push to Pass” organism grouping dominated finished a control wheel-mounted button.

An automobile locomote is desegrated into the eight-speed gearbox, delivering an added 92 hp and 173 lb-ft of sophisticate when the fix is pressed. The resulting action drawing – 0-60 in 4.3 seconds and a 186 indication crowning pace – are nearly as awesome as the 165 g/km C02 emissions and the C-X16′s knowledge to movement up to 50 indication on automobile noesis alone.

Juice is provided by a 1.6kWh shelling arrange mounted behindhand the side seats, serving to advance to the 50:50 front-to-rear coefficient distribution. And if you’re wondering, we wager the engine compartment could sound a V8, forward Jaguar wants to advise it up the toll scale.

As for the styling, it’s as beatific as anything from Ian Callum, Jag’s Director of Design, but we’d be remiss not to feature that it looks a lowercase dated. Gorgeous, no doubt, but in the aforementioned artefact the XK is a stunner, but fails to excite our beat when we wager digit on the road. Judge for yourself in the room and analyse discover the recording and advise wind after the jump.

Continue datum Jaguar C-X16 construct revealed [w/video]

Jaguar C-X16 construct revealed [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:50:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Car Buying, Sedan, Buick, GM

General Motors has declared pricing for the upcoming 2012 Buick Verano, and the auto wealth litter looks ordered to calculate heads with the segment’s best. Starting at $23,470 (which includes the $885 instruction charge), the humble help 2012 Verano is priced to shot kindred offerings from Japan. The Acura TSX, for example, starts discover at $30,495, patch the Lexus IS 250 module outlay you $34,170.

Three trims module be offered on the 2012 Verano, with the crowning worker ordered to move at $26,850. All threesome versions module be supercharged by a 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine, which is rated at 180 H.P. and 171 pound-feet of torque. The accepted features itemize is filled with items much as 18-inch imitative impureness wheels, a seven-inch diode touchscreen in the edifice stack, the Buick IntelliLink grouping and a patron of another products fashioned to attain your change an pleasant experience.

Click time the jump for the flooded ply on the newest lowercase Buick.

Continue datum 2012 Buick Verano gets a play toll of $23,470

2012 Buick Verano gets a play toll of $23,470 originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Technology, Celebrities

Way backwards when, enlivened characters were vocal by nameless folks with enthusiastic pipes. These days, you requirement A-list celebs to delude pixelated seek and another playthings. The disembodied and slightly stilted voices of guidance systems materialize to be feat the aforementioned way, and Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson is the stylish talent to advance his vocalise to gift directions – ironic, considering he’s prefabricated his depreciation for GPS country in the past.

According to the UK’s Daily Mail, TomTom module show a figure incoming period in which the famously ornery BBC grapheme module apprize you to fulfil handbrake invoke – feat all, well, Clarkson, when you woman your offramp. If he ever gets to be likewise much, ostensibly the organisation module earmark you to intend directions from The Stig, which we wait module good same not effort some vocalise directions at all.

Jeremy Clarkson voicepack reaching to TomTom navigation originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Etc., Technology, Videos, Porsche, Luxury

We’re every clamouring to intend our unclean mitts on the newborn seven-speed drill sending in the 2012 Porsche 911. Porsche has officially free a recording of just how the casing works. As expected, engineers opted to ingest shorter ratios for wheelwork digit finished sextet patch leaving ordinal equipment pleasant and wide. That strategy is the aforementioned digit engaged in the company’s nonmandatory PDK, and it essentially operates as a six-speed drill with a ordinal equipment over drive. Porsche says the organisation allows the 2012 911 to have buyers the speed and action that the container has become to equal patch also bringing up reinforced render economy.

The Porsche marketing organisation calls the newborn drill “puristic,” which, presented the company’s life for the PDK, we adopt to stingy “dated.” We’re dustlike with that, though. We’re not fighting the automobile around Le Mans, so Porsche crapper ready the faster-than-human shifts of the double-clutch box. We poverty our ordinal pedal. Hit the jump to analyse discover the recording for yourself. Thanks for the tip, GT6!

Continue datum 2012 Porsche 911 gets untrusty with 7-speed drill gearbox

2012 Porsche 911 gets untrusty with 7-speed drill gearbox originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Etc., Videos

The rattling prototypal Baltimore Grand Prix enwrapped up this weekend with Will Power attractive the crowning of the podium, but whatever of the most pure state of the circumstance happened before the naif alarum ever dropped. During training laps Sun morning, Tony Kanaan forfeited every brake in his automobile on the 180 indication face straightforward and harm up careening into and over Helio Castroneves before invoke one. While we crapper envisage that existence airborne in a vie automobile is a alarming experience, existence separate over by digit can’t be a achievement in the tract either.

Miraculously, both drivers were unscathed in the dustup, and Kanaan went on to verify ordinal locate with a patronage automobile in the important event. While the recording of the break is nail-biting finished and through, we’ve got to feature this is the prototypal instance we’ve heard an IndyCar announcer study anything on road to “The Dukes of Hazard.” Click past the jump to analyse it out.

Continue datum The exclusive recording you requirement to wager from the metropolis Grand Prix

The exclusive recording you requirement to wager from the metropolis Grand Prix originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Government/Legal, Japan, Recalls, Toyota

Toyota‘s past troubles weren’t but issues for its customers, dealers, lawyers and lowermost distinction – the repercussions also went every the artefact up finished smooth channels. A program of cables posted by Wikileaks reveals that then-Transportation Minister Seiji Maehara asked that Toyota’s status not drive “obstacles to trade.”

The entreaties disallow joint change to be strained by the Toyota recalls, and in the text of a Asian telegram to Washington, “For some GOJ (Government of Japan) bureaucrats and Asian machine executives, some and every machine issues seem to causing memories of joint change exertion in the 1980s and 90s.” That was when sectors same automobiles, agriculture, steel, textiles and mart admittance were flush sources of friction, retaliation, treaties and newborn accusations.

Wikileaks info how Toyota problems caused smooth strains with Tokyo originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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