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Ten Cars With Better Fuel Economy Than A Toyota Camry Hybrid

The hybrid version of the Toyota Camry is, behind the Toyota Prius, the best-selling hybrid in America, but there are at least ten other cars for sale this year that get better EPA-estimated mileage on the city, highway or combined cycles. Some are diesels, some are hybrids and some are just light-weight cars with smaller displacement motors. But all share one thing in common — they're more fuel efficient. So why's the Camry Hybrid selling so well? Your answer's as good as ours. More »

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2:30 PM on Tue Sep 23 2008
By Matt Hardigree
9,838 views, 74 comments

Latest by beeter0: My 09 Honda Fit gets about 38mpg, I drive 126 miles per day, costs about $32.00 to fill up, smooth more »

industry news

Guangzhou Autos To Use Camry For Chinese-Japanese Platform Prostitute

China's Guangzhou Auto and Toyota have been going steady for about 10 years now, with GA building Toyotas for the masses and happily rolling in profit. But now Guangzhou wants to take the relationship to the next level and build their own car off the Toyota Camry platform. In a recently inked deal, Guangzhou will get the rights to do just that, building a people's super number one best Chinese-Japanese platform prostitute. The resulting car will be one of 100,000 cars built annually at a new facility to be opened in 2010. Update: Interestingly the original story in ChinaCarTimes has been removed, however it does live on in RSS readers everywhere.

10:40 AM on Thu Aug 28 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
726 views, 23 comments

Latest by theeastbaykid: @Jones Foyer: Ah, go easy on him. He's in Detroit, where it's still OK to use outdated Asian stereotypes in more »

24 hours of lemons

They're Racing... And A Civic Is In The Lead!

The 24 Hours of LeMons New England race has been on for a couple hours now, long enough for the concept of "leader" to be relevant. According to UDMan, the Kielbasa Kids Honda Civic is in first place. And- wait a second, this can't be right- there's a Camry in second! Not only that, a Milano is in the top five; yes, this is a multi-Milano race, folks. Come back in a little while and we'll have more about those Alfas.


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3:15 PM on Sat Aug 23 2008
By Murilee Martin
981 views, 23 comments

Latest by GregSeferian: Last that long? Last that long? Oh ye of little faith. I could have sworn that on Sunday there was more »

racing news

Barack Obama To Sponsor NASCAR Sprint Cup Car In Florida, Other Cars To Turn Right In Protest

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama will be attempting to reach red state audiences by sponsoring a NASCAR Sprint Cup car for the Pocono race on August 3rd of this year. Assuming no one gives it the red flag, this will be the first time that a presidential candidate has officially sponsored a NASCAR entrant. The one-time sponsorship deal is part of a larger "get out the vote" and "make John McCain spend all his money" initiative by the campaign. The #49 car is run by BAM Racing and will be driven by Ken Schrader. Of course, it's a Toyota. More »

2:20 PM on Fri Jul 11 2008
By Matt Hardigree
2,800 views, 78 comments

Latest by MontereyDave: @BlazerUnit: With Americans so frustrated about the economy, etc winning the Presidential election should be a piece of cake for the more »

offbeat news

Toyota Camry Hybrid Engineer Worked To Death

The death of a Japanese Toyota engineer in January 2006 has now been attributed to working too many hours according to an official ruling this past month. The 45-year-old man, lead engineer on the Toyota Camry Hybrid, was reportedly working an average of 80 hours overtime per month during the several months before his death from ischemic heart disease. The official ruling allows his family to collect benefits from his work insurance, and Toyota is saying they will work to improve monitoring of the health of their workers. Let's hope they mean it, because this occurence, known as "karoshi," has steadily increased since the Health Ministry first recognized the phenomenon in 1987. More »

3:15 PM on Wed Jul 9 2008
By Mark Arnold
3,898 views, 50 comments

Latest by zolielo: I think my boss might be telling me something as he referred me to this article... more »

industry news

Toyota To Build Camry Hybrid In Thailand, Become King Of Siam

It's interesting to see where automakers are placing their chips these days. Toyota is expanding production of its popular Toyota Camry Hybrid to Thailand. Toyota wants to break the million mark for annual hybrid sales in the next decade and a way to do that is to start building hybrids in markets with significant demand, including 9,000 hybrid Camrys in Thailand. Let's contrast Toyota's response with GM. The automaker just announced the power numbers on the new Cadillac CTS-V and they just let Hertz fly with their release on the new Corvette ZHZ rent-a-racer. Hmm. We feel like maybe there's a slight difference in PR strategy here — but we can't quite put our finger on it. Press release below the jump.

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10:00 AM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Matt Hardigree
963 views, 13 comments

Latest by tentacles: @DΞLUXEmissesPOLAЯtoo: The last Emepror apparently rode a Buick in the waning days of the old Imperial China, but any cars more »

industry news

Civic Pries Best-Seller Crown Away From Ford F-150's Cold, Dead Hands

After an eleventy-billion year reign as the nation's top seller, it looks as though the Ford F-150 has stumbled for at least one month.The month of May saw the Honda Civic overtake the F-150 in sales putting the Ford down in fourth place. Whaaa!? Indeed, 42,973 F-series trucks sold in May, against 52,826 Corollas, 51,291 Camrys and 53,299 Honda Civics. Since we know Toyota counts the Matrix towards Corolla sales, we'll discount that figure, but who cares? As we called (sorta) yesterday, Civic for the win. According to Jim Farley, Ford group vice president for marketing and communications, "That's just a sign of the times. I think May has been a watershed month." Do people care about gas prices? We think this means the answer is "yes." [Automotive News (Subscription required)]

3:30 PM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
9,161 views, 122 comments

Latest by atrus: @stephdumas: Wowzer. more »

offbeat news

Old Man Backs Over Cop Car... Accidentally

Everyone gets a miffed when the cops write you a ticket. Even though you may have gotten nabbed and don't feel it's fair, that's no reason to back up and over the officers squad car. Well, according to the Daily Herald, 70-year-old Henry Raskin of Niles, Illinois was pretty miffed at the ticket he received, so miffed in fact that he intended to speed away from the cop. Problem is the car was in reverse. As a result, you can see yet another classic instance of the automotive mating ritual . We're sure this was only an accident and the officer was totally understanding.

[DailyHerald via Motive]

4:40 PM on Thu May 29 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
7,146 views, 51 comments

Latest by suzq044: how about.. rally style+ Watch video more »

novelties

Tony Stewart Edition Toyota Camry? Sort of.

We like when dealers try and take advantage of trends to make the special editions that the automakers were just too wimpy or cheap to attempt. In this case, we've got a Toyota dealer that's taking advantage of Tony Stewart and his racing a Camry in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series. How does it work? Take a black Toyota Camry, add gaudy orange touches, blacked-out NASCAR wheels, festoon with the #20 and charge an additional $7K. This makes sense to us as most NASCAR fans drive Toyotas, right? One thing you'll notice has not been added to this car is the name "Tony Stewart" as this would almost certainly draw a lawsuit. Anyone have an idea what stadium this is outside of?

(Hat tip to Zerin!) [Dubspeed Racing]

3:15 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Matt Hardigree
5,827 views, 51 comments

Latest by Jackhole: I don't remember there being a Toyota dealer immediately adjacent to Coors field. Although, I've always been 3 sheets more »

offbeat news

Flaming Flying Squirrel Torches New Jersey Woman's Camry

No, seriously. Here's what the Register had to say:
"A New Jersey woman's Toyota Camry last week suffered a sciurine kamikaze attack during which a flaming squirrel fell onto the vehicle, slid into the engine compartment and provoked an explosion which destroyed the parked vehicle, the Jersey Journal reports.
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11:45 AM on Mon Nov 5 2007
By Ray Wert
1,703 views, 23 comments

Latest by NovaloadMissesPolar: @RoninianHoon: No, Boris and Natasha made it look that way! I was going to go with "Flying Squirrel--wait. Frying Squirrel." more »