Eight annual Vincentric Best Value in the America awards got announced recently today, and Toyota earned top spot of the best value for money passenger cars. Volvo was best value brand of luxury, & Chevrolet got award of best value brand of truck. Overall performance of Toyota was stronger while including the Scion & Lexus divisions, along with automaker taking about 13 Vincentric awards in all, including 4 of hybrid segments. Chevrolet recently augmented their truck strength in plug-in/electric segment of hybrid, as Chevrolet Volt won for 2nd year in row. There was strong value from the Hyundai automobiles, as automaker garnered 4 Vincentric awards, including 2-time winner Hyundai Tucson, and Kia got multiple winning automobiles. Huge success amongst other brands are Honda, whose CR-V [...]
Everything is bigger at Texas, & it includes market of pickup trucks. Market is pretty big and the truck makers unveil newer models regularly at Texas State Fair, & make create special versions just for bigger contiguous states of union. At Chrysler, this means Ram 1500 Lone Star – special model that is available just for Texas and accounts for approx 30 percent to 40 percent of the 1500-series sales of truck in state, or approximately 80,000 trucks sold since the introduction about 10 years ago. This model has now reached the decade mile stone and American truck manufacturer is keen for getting party started in Texas style along with more special edition. Ram Lone Star Tenth Anniversary begins along with Ram 1500 Crew Cab having bucket seats & upholsters perforated with Katzkin [...]
Fred Diaz didn’t know that Detroit Red Wings will break record of National Hockey League’s for the consecutive wins at home when marketing team of Ram negotiated for sponsoring special-edition of truck for Wings. Diaz, the CEO @ Chrysler Ram truck brand said that the plan initially was make 1,000 which ended up being gross under estimation. Metro dealers are now expecting to sell about 2,000 of $36,684 Red Wing Ram, & play offs are about one month away. It is break which validates the decision of Chrysler’s in the year 2009 for separating Ram from the brand of Dodge. Dan Frost, the owner at Chrysler dealerships @ Southfield & Taylor, said that he sold around 110 Red Wings of Ram trucks. People who are not fans of Red Wings too are attracted at this truck due to the [...]
Lightweight & High-rigidity SKYACTIV-BODY gives top-class performance of safety Mazda Motor Corporation recently announced that latest Mazda CX-5 for US market is “Top Safety Pick” for the year 2012, which is highest possible rating of safety, from IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) in the tests of crashworthiness. Evaluation methods of IIHS are: offset frontal test for an automobile driving @ 40 mph (approx 64 km/h), side impact testing for automobile driving @ 31 mph (50 km/h), rear crash protection for an automobile driving @ 20 mph (32 km/h) & test of roof strength for determining protection performance of vehicle as: “Acceptable”, “Good”, “Poor” or “Marginal” according to deformation of automobile & performance [...]
Coba Landscaping & Construction Inc from New Jersey recently filed one lawsuit against Ford and accused the auto maker of deliberately selling some defective automobiles for around one decade. It is reported that Ford knew about the gas tanks of F-Series trucks & E-Series vans were a bit defective, & worked for hiding this issue from the customers. This lawsuit concerns fuel tanks of 1998-2008 F-Series Ford pick up trucks & E-Series (also known as the Econoline) automobiles. This asserts that over some time, internal lining of fuel tank separated and “flaked off.” These flakes clogged the fuel systems of the automobiles along with rust or metal flakes, and the engine lost power or stalled. This suit also said that Ford had issued bulletin of technical service regarding [...]
