Lexus’ LS flagship luxury sedan received the highest score among all models in the 2013 J.D. Power and Associates Initial Quality Study (IQS) With 59 problems per 100 vehicles (PP100), the LS shows the lowest average problem level among all models in the study. This is the sixth year in a row the LS has
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Toyota is aiming to defend its electric record at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb at the end of the month with its EV P002 race car. The electric racecar showed promising pace in official testing this last weekend. The two-day session at the world-famous course in Colorado ran smoothly for the Toyota Motorsport team
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Ford sees that its SYNC voice-controlled connectivity and MyFord Touch touch screen technologies are attracting more customers and selling at a much higher rate than competitors, as MyFord Touch helps drive higher customer satisfaction with vehicle quality. Ford declared that combined, SYNC and MyFord Touch are sold on 79 percent of new 2013 Ford vehicles,
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This week we spent a couple of days in Washington, D.C. to attend the annual Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) Conference that took place June 10-12. The synergistic get-together of EDTA’s 110 members is a who’s-who list of key players pushing forward the electrification of transportation, and it is an eye opener. Here one gets
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The advent of the electric car is upon us, but despite implications to the contrary, don’t look to Uncle Sam to be as much of a direct driver of this anticipated paradigm shift as some may have previously supposed. In other quarters, there has been much talk of automakers needing to develop electrified cars to
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Toyota’s consistency as a green company has been confirmed by a third successive top ranking in the annual Best Global Green Brands report. This report was published June 12 by international brand consultancy Interbrand. Interestingly, automotive brands make up 50 percent of this year’s top ten. The report gauges the gap between public perception of
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The new Nissan Leaf will show up in Camada with a new base trim level and a revised price. Nissan has announced that Canadian pricing for the new 2013 Nissan Leaf will start at a Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of $31,698 for the newly-added S grade. This makes the Leaf S the lowest priced
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Toyota won both hybrid classes in this year’s AutoPacific’s Vehicle Satisfaction Awards. The Toyota Avalon Hybrid won the Hybrid Car/EV award while the Lexus RX450h won Hybrid/EV Crossover SUV. AutoPacific’s Vehicle Satisfaction Awards (VSA) objectively measure owner satisfaction with 51 vehicle attributes ranging from interior comfort and convenience to fuel economy and performance. “Vehicles that
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Unlike Tesla Motors which has gone on record saying by 2016 it will offer a Nissan Leaf-beating, 200-mile-range electric car in the low $30,000-range, General Motors plays its hand much closer to its chest, but it would be inadvisable to think the giant is sleeping. On Wednesday this week at the annual conference of Canada’s
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The Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Coupé Electric Drive went around the Nürburgring Nordschleife (“north loop”) in a record time for an all-electric car of 7:56.234 minutes. This makes the electric AMG super sports car the first electrically-powered series production vehicle to master the legendary race track in under eight minutes. The record time of the SLS
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