Toyota Videos Spread The Word On RAV4 EV
Published August 16, 2012
By Jeff Cobb
Including an $ 810 destination charge, the sticker price will actually be $ 50,610. Tax incentives of $ 2,500 in California, and $ 7,500 federally will be available.
Toyota has been issuing videos to get the word out for its California-market RAV4 EV, designed in collaboration with Tesla using its electric motor drive technology.
As revealed in Los Angeles in May, the just over $ 50,000 vehicle is said to offer range of approximately 100 miles, charging time of approximately six hours using a 240-volt/40-amp fast home charger, and is much sleeker than the early electric RAV4.
Name That Shifter, No. 89: 1984 Renault Fuego 2.2
August 15, 2012 at 3:27pm by Car and Driver
On Monday we presented this week’s shifter and asked you to identify the make and model of the vehicle from whence it came. We were counting on this week’s contest to stump you, but it turns out we didn’t dig quite deep enough. A few of you figured out that this week’s shifter came from the 1984 Renault Fuego 2.2. The first commenter to mostly correctly identify it was repeat winner Ram Narayan—Ram was slightly off with his guess that the shifter belonged to the Turbo model.
The Fuego pictured here is from our June 1984 issue. Introduced in the U.S. in 1981, the funny-looking Renault (which was peddled Stateside by AMC, along with the dreadful Alliance) received a new, more-powerful base four-cylinder engine for 1984. Displacement jumped from 1.6 liters to 2.2, though output increased only marginally, from 82 hp to 91. A turbocharged model was available, but it only shaved 0.6 second off of the 2.2’s 10.6-second 0-to-60-mph time.
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2013 Mercedes-Benz A-Class – More Photos Revealed
Mercedes-Benz released a sweet update with a huge collection of photos for their 2013 A-Class coming soon to dealerships near you. If you think it’s odd that Mercedes-Benz is releasing more photos every few months, don’t think so, it isn’t. Why?
As our sources tell us, they have received more than 40,000 orders in Europe alone for the small and nimble entry model from their range. That’s a pretty spectacular result for a car who’s release date is more than a month away this September.
For us in Europe the A-Class will be available with three inline-four turbo diesel engines ranging in output from 107hp (109PS) to 134hp (136PS), followed closely by three four-cylinder petrol engined cars producing from 121hp (122PS) to 208hp (211PS).
Mercedes-Benz also confirmed their intention of releasing an AMG version of the A-Class sporting well over 300 horsepower, all-wheel drive, all delivered from a turbocharged 2.0L four-cylinder engine. This one will be called A45 AMG and it’s planned to arrive in the first quarter of next year. Media gallery here we come!
Will the Sprint Cup ever come to Montreal?
We’re hours away from the NASCAR Nationwide NAPA 200 in Montreal, and rumours of the Sprint Cup coming to Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve are flying high again.
For those who don’t know, Nationwide is the Sprint Cup’s farm system, a lower-tier series for the stars of tomorrow. You won’t see all the big guns like Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Yet, Montreal has recently been voted as the ”best Nationwide race,” a distinction that François Dumontier (the event’s promoter) is quite happy to brag about.
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| Photo: Sébastien D’Amour |
You see, the other races in the Nationwide series are often held on Saturday afternoons in front of (partially) empty bleachers, whereas more than 60,000 fans attend the Montreal show.
And that’s certainly what it is: a show. These 3,500-lb machines pack quite a punch with their thundering V8 engines that crank out 650+ horsepower. Of course, they’re more like elephants in a jewelry store than cheetahs in the savanna, but the fact that many local drivers are competing makes the race compelling from start to finish.
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Red Bull F1 Car Plays U.S. National Anthem
Red Bull F1 team has a couple of show cars used for publicity purposes. They are multi-talented, apparently, as they can be used to shoot paint balls at Jeremy Clarkson’s plums, they can be driven in the dirt, or as you see here, play a musical tribute to the land of the free. On its second U.S. trip, the team went to New York’s Liberty Park where engineers with laptops made the F1 monster play the Star-Spangled Banner with its engine noise. It sounds strangely cool!
Check it out after the jump.
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McLaren 12C Can-AM Edition Concept to debut at Pebble Beach
A new concept from McLaren will be making its first appearance at Pebble Beach from the McLaren Group’s manufacturers McLaren GT.
Dubbed the McLaren 12C Can-Am Edition, the concept is coated in McLaren Orange and Satin Black paint, with the latter used as an accent along with carbon fiber. The exterior’s overall design was created with aerodynamics in mind, of course, and achieves an increase in downforce of 30 percent thanks to Formula 1 technology.
Check out more news on the McLaren MP4-12C.
To achieve this, McLaren uses carbon fiber parts that include drive planes, front splitter and a wing. With carbon fiber being used for much of the body, the total weight comes in at 2,645 lbs.
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N54 Engine warranty extended to 8 Years/82,000 Miles (Wastegates Only)
In 2010, BMW was hit with class action suit on the N54 turbo engine for defective High Pressure Fuel Pumps and turbo chargers. We have first covered the BMW N54 fuel pump issues in early 2008 and the article has been the most commented story we have every published here at BMWBLOG, with over 400 people presenting their concerns, suggestions and feedback.
BMW announced at the time that it will extend the emissions warranty coverage period to 10 years or 120,000 miles, whichever comes first, on affected vehicles in all 50 States. If the HPFP fails during the extended warranty coverage period, BMW will replace it with a newer-production version.
Other issues with the N54 engine were wastegate rattles, and in a new bulletin issues to dealerships, BMWNA says it will extended the warranty to 8 Years/82,000 Miles.
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