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Toyota Corolla

2006-09-23T12:32:00.000-07:00

Engine
1.8-liter DOHC 16-valve VVT-i 4-cylinder 126 hp @ 6000 rpm; 122 lb.-ft. @ 4200 rpm	Standard	Standard	Standard
Transmission
5-speed manual overdrive	Standard	Standard	Standard
4-speed electronically controlled automatic overdrive (ECT)	Available	Available	Available
Body construction	Unitized body
Drivetrain	Front engine, front-wheel drive
Suspension	Independent MacPherson strut front, torsion beam rear suspension with front and rear stabilizer bars
Steering	Engine speed-sensing power-assisted rack-and-pinion
Turning circle diameter, curb to curb (ft.)	36.1	36.1	36.1
Brakes	Power-assisted ventilated front disc/rear drum
4-wheel Anti-lock Brake System (ABS) with Electronic Brake-force Distribution (EBD)	Available	Available	Available
Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) [1, 2] with Traction Control (TRAC) and Brake Assist [3]	NA	Available	Available

Please remember, Toyota vehicles are built with popular option combinations. Not all options are available separately and some options and accessories may not be available in all regions of the country. So please contact your Toyota dealer, who can help locate the vehicle that's right for you.

Some vehicles are shown with available equipment. Seatbelts should be worn at all times. For details on vehicle specifications, standard features and available equipment in your area, contact your Toyota dealer. A vehicle with particular equipment may not be available at the dealership. Ask your Toyota dealer to help locate a specifically equipped vehicle.

All information presented herein is based on data available at the time of posting, is subject to change without notice and pertains specifically to mainland U.S.A. vehicles only (may differ in the state of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and in other regions).

	CE	S	LE

Exterior Dimensions (in.)
Overall height	58.5	58.5	58.5
Overall width	66.9	66.9	66.9
Overall length	178.3	178.3	178.3
Wheelbase	102.4	102.4	102.4
Track (front/rear)	58.3/57.5	58.3/57.5	58.3/57.5
Ground clearance	5.7	5.7	5.7
Interior Dimensions front/rear (in.)
Head room (with moonroof)	39.3/37.1	39.3/37.1 (37.8/37.0)	39.3/37.1 (37.8/37.0)
Shoulder room	53.1/53.5	53.1/53.5	53.1/53.5
Hip room	51.9/46.2	51.9/46.2	51.9/46.2
Leg room	41.3/35.4	41.3/35.4	41.3/35.4
Seating capacity	5	5	5

	CE	S	LE

Curb weight (lb.) manual/automatic	2530/2595	2550/2615	2550/2615
EPA passenger volume (cu. ft.)	90.3	90.3/88.5 [4]	90.3/88.5 [4]
Luggage capacity (cu. ft.)	13.6	13.6	13.6
Towing capacity (lb.) [5]	1500	1500	1500
Fuel tank (gal.)	13.2	13.2	13.2

	CE	S	LE

Size
Standard	P185/65R15	P195/65R15	P195/65R15
Available	NA	P195/55R16 [6, 7]	NA
Type
Standard	All-Season	All-Season	All-Season
Available	NA	Performance [6, 7]	NA
Spare	Temporary	Temporary	Temporary

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2006-09-22T11:10:00.000-07:00

	CE	S	LE

Exterior Dimensions (in.)
Overall height	58.5	58.5	58.5
Overall width	66.9	66.9	66.9
Overall length	178.3	178.3	178.3
Wheelbase	102.4	102.4	102.4
Track (front/rear)	58.3/57.5	58.3/57.5	58.3/57.5
Ground clearance	5.7	5.7	5.7
Interior Dimensions front/rear (in.)
Head room (with moonroof)	39.3/37.1	39.3/37.1 (37.8/37.0)	39.3/37.1 (37.8/37.0)
Shoulder room	53.1/53.5	53.1/53.5	53.1/53.5
Hip room	51.9/46.2	51.9/46.2	51.9/46.2
Leg room	41.3/35.4	41.3/35.4	41.3/35.4
Seating capacity	5	5	5

	CE	S	LE

Curb weight (lb.) manual/automatic	2530/2595	2550/2615	2550/2615
EPA passenger volume (cu. ft.)	90.3	90.3/88.5 [4]	90.3/88.5 [4]
Luggage capacity (cu. ft.)	13.6	13.6	13.6
Towing capacity (lb.) [5]	1500	1500	1500
Fuel tank (gal.)	13.2	13.2	13.2

	CE	S	LE

Size
Standard	P185/65R15	P195/65R15	P195/65R15
Available	NA	P195/55R16 [6, 7]	NA
Type
Standard	All-Season	All-Season	All-Season
Available	NA	Performance [6, 7]	NA
Spare	Temporary	Temporary	Temporary

Boxy is in: Hip young drivers get square

2006-09-17T13:43:00.000-07:00

When Toyota introduced the Scion xB, with its giant box and tiny wheels, it was derided as looking like a rolling microwave. But this year, sales have increased by nearly 22% compared with last year. In fact, its customised version for 2006, the Release Series 3.0—in “envy green”, with an Alpine DVD audio/video player and seven-spoke wheels—is sold out.
Yes, it’s hip to be square—at least when it comes to the shape of cars, reports Chris Woodyard in USA Today. “Even as big, traditional SUVs have seen their popularity wane, the smaller boxes are making a sales dent with the younger crowd. They’re economical, practical and eminently customisable.”
Chevrolet has twice revised sales projections upward for its retro-styled HHR small SUV. Honda is souping up its angular Element for a new version called the SC that goes on sale this month:It’s aimed at winning back the Xers. Target buyer age: 25. The fired-up SC edition will have a lowered look, tighter suspension and 18-inch alloy wheels aimed at adding some urban attitude. And, BMW’s boxish Mini remains in short supply at dealers.
“I think the shape is so unique compared to what you see on the road today,” says Stephan Butler, 35, of New York about his new special edition Mini Cooper. Butler and his wife picked up their $32,000 Mini with a blue body, silver roof and red mirrors in August.
“Just the nature of the cube allows you to the space to make it a mobile party experience,” says auto-marketing consultant Gordon Wangers.
The distinctive shape isn’t limited to small vehicles. GM’s Hummer, Toyota’s FJ Cruiser, Mercedes-Benz’s G-Class and a few other SUVs all draw from the box shape. But it’s the smaller versions—both cars and trucks— that seem to be in biggest demand. "The boxy look is almost antiestablishment. Why not take it to a higher level?" asks John Watts, Honda's manager of product planning. While big vehicles usually mean big profits, manufacturers are embracing the small boxes because the personalisation items they sell, from custom wheels to audio and video, tack hundreds, even thousands, on the sales price. When it went on sale last year, critics dismissed the Chevy HHR’s size and retro styling. Originally pegged to sell 60,000 this year, now, sales is expected to reach 110,000 by year’s end. “It’s one of those cars that makes an emotional connection with folks,” says Chevy spokesman Terry Rhadigan. “People just fall in love with it.”

2006-09-14T01:18:00.000-07:00

Barely a week goes by without yet another small off-roader arriving on the scene. Competition in the compact SUV market has never been so fierce, and to make sure the BMW X3 isn’t left behind by the new Land Rover Freelander, Vauxhall Antara and Honda CR-V, it has been given a much-needed facelift. A larger radiator grille, repositioned foglights and new bumpers mark out the revised car, along with trendy LED-style rear light clusters. Under the bonnet, there are two new petrol engines to choose from – a 2.5si delivering 218bhp and a 272bhp 3.0si – as well as a twin-turbo diesel borrowed from the 535d and 335d, which powers this 3.0sd.

With 580Nm of torque and a slick six-speed automatic gearbox, performance and refinement are outstanding. Yet while the handling is undeniably impressive, the X3 remains a tall off-roader, so sporty fans will probably be disappointed. Push the engine and the quoted 32.5mpg economy will plummet, too. Our model’s 18-inch alloys also harm ride comfort, and while interior quality has been improved, the packaging still disappoints – especially given the hefty £36,415 price tag.

Go for the M Sport and you’ll fork out £38,175, while even the base 2.0 oil-burner is £28,560. Unless outright performance is your top priority, the all-new Free-lander could be worth the wait.

Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren

2006-08-31T12:57:00.000-07:00

Audi A8

2006-08-31T12:54:00.000-07:00

Limooooo

2006-08-31T12:09:00.000-07:00

Bentley Arnage

2006-08-31T11:44:00.000-07:00

Hummer "safest car in the world"

2006-08-27T12:02:00.000-07:00

2005 Maybach Brabus SV 12

2006-08-23T04:10:00.000-07:00

Maybach Brabus SV 12

2006-08-23T03:41:00.000-07:00

2005 Maybach Brabus SV 12

Year 2005

Make Maybach

Model SV 12

Tuner Brabus

Engine Location Front

Drive Type Rear Wheel

Performance

0-60 mph 4.9 seconds.

Top Speed 195 mph 313.8 km/h

Engine

Engine Configuration V

Cylinders 12

Aspiration Bi-Turbo

Displacement 6300.00 cc 384.4 cu in. 6.3 L.

Horsepower 640.00 BHP (471 KW) @ 5100.00 RPM

Torque 757.00 Ft-Lbs (1026.5 NM) @ 1750.00 RPM

HP / Liter 101.6 BHP / Liter

Complied by Suresh

Indian icon reaches 50, Ambassador

2006-08-23T03:23:00.000-07:00

In the introduction to his beguiling book, A Way into India, Raghubir Singh describes the Ambassador as “an organic part of bird shit- and cow dung-coated India.” “In its imperfection,” Singh writes, “[the Ambassador] is truly an Indian automobile”. For many decades, buying a car meant buying an Ambassador. But times have changed. The Amby is nowhere as ubiquitous as it once used to be. But it has reached its half-century of continuous production. That in itself seems like a bit of a miracle. And that is part of its mythology.

The Ambassador may be thought to be quintessentially Indian but its origins aren’t. It is a direct descendant of the British Morris Oxford Series II and III. In 1954, the Landmaster – the first made-in-India Oxford – was produced. It was rebranded as the Ambassador in 1957.

It isn’t quite the car that you would choose to drive these days. Says journalist, writer and old India hand, Sir Mark Tully: “Its relevance in India is as a relic of the past. And people would buy it more as a statement and less as a car. However, I have driven thousands of miles in an Amby and it got through floods and potholed roads, where other cars struggled. It’s a beautiful car, very simple and any mechanic on the roadside could set it right. I have fond memories of it.” Fond memories are what most people have of it. Says artist Riyaz Komu, who last year bought the 2004-launched Ambassador Avigo, “My dad bought an Amby in Kerala in 1968 and we still use it in our family home there. It leaves you with this elderly, veteran feel when you travel in its comfortable back seat. I bought an Avigo just for the sentimental value.” Sentimental value, though, won’t be enough to keep this icon thriving. Experts believe that the car has little relevance in a country like India, where the choice is wider and much better than it used to be.

Hormazd Sorabjee, editor, Autocar India magazine, has the distinction of driving an Ambassador from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. “I have cut my teeth with this car and changing from second to third with that steering-column mounted gearshift is an art in itself,” he says. Were it not for sentimental values, he says, the Amby would have been dead and buried long ago. “It just doesn’t make the cut as far as today’s safety and technology standards go.” The Amby just about pants its way past 100 kmph. It isn’t what you’d call fuel-efficient. Then there’s that leaf-spring suspension at the rear, which is better than that of, er, a bullock cart.

However, while modern inde pendent suspensions may offer you with a better ride, they just can’t take the beating that Indian potholes render them with. The Amby’s leaf spring, crude as it may be, is simple, longer lasting, and doesn’t cost a fortune to repair.

That’s something but clearly not everything. There are doubts about how long the car can go on. As Srinivas Krishnan, assistant editor of the Business Standard motoring magazine says, “It was a good car and has served people well, but it’s time for it to drive into the sunset.” But don’t write it off yet. People have been predicting the death of the Ambassador for years now. And although it is no longer the colossus it once was, 15,000-odd cars continue to roll out from the Hindustan Motors factory in Uttarpara, a short train ride away from Kolkata, every year even now. The Central and state governments are said to account for a quarter of the sales.

For all you know, this Indian icon will still be around to celebrate another important landmark in its eventful journey.

Metaphor for Mother India F or thirty years I have traveled in hired Ambassador cars. As I journeyed all over India I came to understand that if one thing can be singled out to stand for the past fifty years of India… it has to be the Ambassador.

… It has become a metaphor for Mother India, for Independent India. Lizard-like, it has shed its colonial coating of Morris Oxford to don Hindustani colours. Unlike the Oxford don, tweed, thick-cut marmalade and an English breakfast of kippers and herring, it was never a British monument, but it is an Indian one. It is the Hindustan Ambassador.

…It is now a part of India’s long journey. It is an organic part of bird shit- and cowdung-coated India. It is the good and bad of India. It is a solid part of that India that moves on, even as it falls apart, or lags behind. In its imperfection, it is truly an Indian automobile.

Source www.hindustantimes.com
by Suresh

Collection of Cars

2006-08-17T02:14:00.000-07:00

History of Cars

2006-08-17T01:50:00.000-07:00

The birth of the car as we know it today occurred over a period of years. It was only in 1885 that the first real car rolled down on to the streets. The earlier attempts, though successful, were steam powered road-vehicles.

The first self-propelled car was built by Nicolas Cugnot in 1769 which could attain speeds of upto 6 kms/hour. In 1771 he again designed another steam-driven engine which ran so fast that it rammed into a wall, recording the world’s first accident.

In 1807 Francois Isaac de Rivaz designed the first internal combustion engine.This was subsequently used by him to develop the world’s first vehicle to run on such an engine, one that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen to generate energy.

This spawned the birth of a number of designs based on the internal combustion engine in the early nineteenth century with little or no degree of commercial success. In 1860 thereafter, Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir built the first successful two-stroke gas driven engine. In 1862 he again built an experimental vehicle driven by his gas-engine, which ran at a speed of 3 kms/hour. These cars became popular and by 1865 could be frequently espied on the roads.

The next major leap forward occurred in 1885 when the four stroke engine was devised. Gottileb Damlier and Nicolas Otto worked together on the mission till they fell apart. Daimler created his own engines which he used both for cars and for the first four wheel horseless carriage. In the meanwhile, unknown to them, Karl Benz, was in the process of creating his own advanced tri-cycle which proved to be the first true car. This car first saw the light of the day in 1886.