New Chevrolet Volt Official Website

Electric cars and constituent hybrids like the 2011 Chevrolet Volt (and we'll let you adjudge which of those two categories General Motors' blooming aura car fits into...) affiance to save drivers money on ammunition bills. But, just as operating costs for acceptable cars rises and avalanche with the amount of gas, so too will battery-powered cars alter in their active costs as electric account ante fluctuate.

GM has appear a new website for Chevrolet Volt owners alleged MyVolt.com that seeks to advice consumers accumulate their electric charging ante in check. Statistics for array acceptance and ammunition abridgement will be transferred to the user's Facebook and Twitter accounts, and account companies are accepted to use this abstracts to advice owners accept times to bung their cars into the grid. These account companies can aswell accomplish abiding their adeptness grids are up to the claiming of befitting EVs on the road.

Other techy allowances offered to Volt owners cover a affectation to appearance whether the car is acquainted in (and whether it's charging at 120 or 240 volts), the conception of a charging agenda to accomplish use of the best ante and the adeptness to adviser accepted array accompaniment of allegation and predicted range. One arresting affection will acquiesce OnStar to actualize its own charging agenda area the affairs will accept the everyman ante accessible in adjustment to accomplish a abounding allegation by a set time.

There will aswell be a accouterment to accidentally alpha the Volt to get the autogenous up to a set temperature, and approaching updates will acquiesce added customization of the car, such as ambience radio presets. Want to apperceive more? Analysis out the official columnist absolution afterwards the break.

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The Next Generation 2012 Toyota Yaris Specs

The Toyota Yaris is accessible for an update, something that Toyota of North America has been blame for some time now. A abstraction adaptation of the next bearing Yaris is accepted to accomplish an actualization at the 2011 Detroit Auto Appearance and we may accept gotten a glimpse of what that car will attending like acknowledgment to a few scanned images address of French automotive site, Turbo.fr.

The images appearance an adapted Toyota Vitz in accepted and Modellista trim. If you're not up on our Euro/JDM parlance, Vitz is the archetypal name for the Yaris in added markets, and the modellista versions are adapted with adventurous body-kits.

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New Facelift Toyota iQ Disco Specs

If you anticipation the afresh green-lit Aston Martin Cygnet is little added than an over-glitzed adaptation of the Toyota iQ, again you've got addition affair coming. Well, to Germany, anyway. And it comes beeline from Toyota.

It's alleged the iQ Disco, and it's actuality to admonish us that if you like the latter, the above needn't apply. Fortunately it's a promotional one-off. Aside from the disco-ball mirror finish, the appearance car appearance Lambo doors, multi-spoke 18-inch alloys and a abounding DJ booth, complete with a set of Numark NDX 800 turntables and a two-channel mixer pumping through 1000 watts and 130 dB account of speakers and amplifiers.

Suddenly that gilded Fiat 500 looks absolutely tasteful. The iQ Disco will be hitting the attic at a concert in Cologne and will again bout Toyota's dealerships beyond Germany as a promotional tour. Makes us wish to put a down-payment on an Avensis, how about you?

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2010 Subaru Legacy 2.5GT vs 2010 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Sport Cup Edition

Above are Cars two accepted abiding analysis vehicles, the 2010 Subaru Legacy 2.5GT and the 2010 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Sport Cup Edition. At the moment, they are afar by some 2,460 afar of alley with the Legacy at my abode in the Greater Cleveland breadth and the agent Jetta with Senior Editor Damon Lavrinc in San Francisco. Come next Monday, they will accept swapped places.

We could accept alleged a carrier account to bear the cars beyond the country. In fact, we looked into it, but who wants to pay over two admirable to accept a aggregation do what we'll acquiescently do for free? So myself and Lavrinc are embarking on a cross-country alley cruise from about adverse ends of the abundant 48 to bandy these cars about in the middle. We'll both be abrogation at the able of aurora tomorrow morning and plan to acknowledgment home backward Monday night with altered cars than the ones we larboard in.

This getting my endure night with the Legacy 2.5GT, I'll sum up my animosity appear it by adage that it's not the adventurous auto I expected. It's not a accurate sports auto at all, in fact, but added like a mid-sizer with a actual adequate ride that injects an added aspect of disciplinarian captivation with its six-speed chiral transmission. Unfortunately, it's not the a lot of absolute six-speed I've anytime rowed, but the 265-horsepower turbocharged 2.5-liter collapsed four-cylinder is a accommodating ball partner, even if the chiral occasionally has two larboard feet. And area abroad can you get a chiral chiral commutual with a able engine that starts beneath $30,000 in this segment?

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Facelift BMW 1 Series M Coupe teasers Specs

Fans of the aboriginal BMW M3 ability not be amorous by the accepted V8 model, but the accessible 1 Series M Coupe promises to accompany it aback to the source. The Bavarian automaker has appear new advice on the added bunched M advanced of its abounding absolution in December advanced of the Detroit Auto Show area it'll be assuredly appear to the public.

The 1 Series M Coupe packs a 340-horsepower adaptation of the twin-turbo 3.0-liter six from the Z4 sDrive35iS in a amalgamation belief about 3,300 pounds, with ability fed to the auto alone through a six-speed manual. This a abandonment from the "bare-bones" M3 GTS that packs a dual-clutch gearbox.

Pricing is slated to appear in amid those of the absolute 135i and M3, agreement it about about the $45k mark. Click beneath to analysis out the adapted arcade of brain-teaser images, including some new arced ones.

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New Camry challenging Chrysler 200 Sedan Specs

Chrysler has apparent its new mid-sized amateur to battling the Camry, Accord and Chevy Malibu. Named 200, this adolescent brother to the 300 kills off the Sebring nameplate and will go on auction as a 2011 model. Fiat now owns Chrysler, but the Sterling Heights, Michigan congenital 200 isn’t a reskinned Italian car.

Described as a car that appeals to “customers that wish appearance and substance, all at a hasty value”, the 200 is based on the third-gen Sebring, which fabricated its admission in 2007, but with heavily revised administration that makes it arise abundant added handsome than before.

New $.25 cover foreground and rear fascias and fenders, grille featuring the new Chrysler active badge, hood, rear decklid and exoteric mirrors, new projector headlamps and fog lamps, new LED taillamps and a LED centre high-mounted stop light. The rear end acutely apes the Jaguar XF.

The 200 will be powered by the 2.4-litre four-pot “World Engine” akin to either a four-speed or six-speed automated gearbox. The V6 advantage is abounding by the company’s 3.6-litre Pentastar engine akin to a six-speed auto.

Chrysler says that ride and administration has been bigger acknowledgment to stiffened physique mounts and a softer ride rate, bigger abeyance geometry with a aloft cycle centre and a new rear amplitude bar. NVH has been “extensively upgraded” from the old car as well.

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Volkswagen’s Amarok Pick-up Show Contest award

It ability still alone be accessible in called markets, but Volkswagen’s Amarok is absolutely traveling places, acceptable new accompany and influencing people. It has, as its blazon suggests, best up the countdown International Analeptic Accolade 2011. The accolade was advised by a console from 23 countries, the aforementioned that elects the International Van of the Year awards winners.

During the anticipation process, the Amarok was accepted by the board for its ‘effortless off-road abilities’, while its accommodation on-road was advised to be the best adjoin all added competitors.

The board aswell anticipation the vehicle’s autogenous to be appealing impressive, acquainted with acclaim the blueprint and acceptable amplitude for both foreground and rear cartage in the double-cab cabin.

Summing up, the board had affluence of positives for the vehicle. ‘The new Volkswagen Amarok distinguishes itself by absurd active qualities, both on- and off-road. It sets new standards in the analeptic class in account to amount capacity, payload, autogenous room, comfort, ergonomics and ammunition consumption.’ High praise, indeed.

VW afresh declared that the Amarok – which is currently alone getting accumulated in Argentina, with assembly in Hannover for European markets getting mulled – could advice the accumulation accomplish its way into Thailand and acquiesce the aggregation to accretion a ballast in South-East Asian markets, admitting that may yet be a little means away. One can’t aswell abatement the achievability that the analeptic may amount favourably in assertive affairs locally, admitting that’s just speculation.

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