Will Leno’s lukewarm endorsement ruin the Volt’s launch? Probably not. Leno is a gearhead who is into bigger engines and faster cars. His vast car collection includes a 2005 Ford GT, a Corvette C6RS and a Mercedes SLR. He has hundreds of cars.
Volt buyers are more likely to be environmentalists (and vegans who wouldn’t eat at Bob’s Continue reading
Detroit News that the car could pass for a Chevy Cobalt or a Toyota Camry. He won’t be among those scrambling to have the first Volt — there’s not a lot of cachet in owning one of the first ones, he says.
“It’s not like when you pull into Bob’s Big Boy parking lot with the Volt, you’re going to open the hood,” Leno told The Detroit News, referring to the classic car hot spot in Burbank, Calif. Continue reading
Tata Motors is customers on a waiting list for the car to tell them the car will be priced 3% to 4% higher than it’s original asking price of 100,000 rupees, which is about $2,100 in today’s foreign exchange rates, according to several reports in Indian newspapers.
Customers who have left deposits and are waiting for a car will still get the original price, the company said. Continue reading
At Drive On, we’re more used to writing about Ford’s latest model or Toyota’s latest recall, but Scott Muhoberac from New Orleans prefers a different sort of car — a hearse. Scott founded a hearse club, NOLAHEARSE.com, and currently owns two hearses. Makes sense that he would ask Tony from Twisted Addictions to immortalize his love with a tattoo. And yes, that is Ecto1 from Ghostbusters. Continue reading
Dale Brunk from Hampstead, N.C., got tattoos of cars he remembered his parents driving as a kid. Dale had Rodney Raines at Ace Custom Tattoos in Charlotte give them a hot-rod upgrade and ink ‘em under each of Dale’s armpits.
devotion like allowing someone to take a sharpened needle, dip it into thick, goopy liquid and repeatedly pierce your skin until you’re bleeding and sore — also known as getting a tattoo. Continue reading
Many of the vehicles look to have been shipped into the country in pre-loved condition. I’ve seen Toyotas bearing decidedly American bumper stickers touting the Outer Banks beaches of North Carolina and love for golden retrievers. Pondering the preponderance of Toyotas, I decided to do a little unscientific sample.: Continue reading
Toyota’s image problems in the United States over unintended acceleration don’t seem to be having any spillover here in Afghanistan. Toyotas are the overwhelming four-wheeled motor vehicle of choice on the pitted and dusty streets of this capital city.
It is no exaggeration to say that virtually every automobile and SUV you see on the streets of Kabul carries a Toyota brand — or did until some owner peeled it off and replaced it with Continue reading
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