Thursday, September 6, 2007
Toyota RAV4, Europe's best-selling sport utility vehicle, goes to the extremes by introducing a variant called XT-R. Said RAV4 variant will be introduced on the first day of January next year.
Toyota RAV4 small 4x4 introduces a new trim level XT-R to boost extremes in an SUV. It is designed to perfect quality without being expensive. The new trim level is equipped with additional luxury items to boost the ergonomics and comfy feel that the vehicle offers.
RAV$ XT-R is offered with the 2.0-litre diesel and petrol engines, and in three- and five-door versions. RAV4 three-door XT-R with the 2.0-litre petrol engine is priced at £17,995. However, the XT-R equipped with stability and traction control, climate and cruise control, an electric sunroof and metallic paint will be valued up to £1500 on lower-spec cars. The diesel-powered version of the vehicle costs £1000 more compared to its petrol equivalent.
Toyota RAV4 accessories and equipment used in XT-R include dual-zone climate control, a cooled glovebox, electric sunroof, 6-disc CD autochanger, Toyota’s Integrated Active Drive system, Hill-start Assist Control (HAC), and electric heated and folding door Toyota mirrors.
RAV4 entertained a major redesign for the model year 2006. Toyota RAV4 parts accessories for said model were assembled using a new platform. The vehicle still uses the 2.4 L four-cylinder engine that is capable of generating 166 horsepower. In North America, RAV4 uses a 3.5 L V6 engine from Toyota Avalon Grande parts. Said engine produces 269 horsepower.
Compared to the previous generation of RAV4, the current version is equipped with a third row seat for two small children. This feature is available in the United States and Canada only. Options for the RAV4 include the two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive in the United States. However, in Canada and other countries, only the four-wheel version is available. In Asia and Europe, RAV4 is available in short-wheelbase while in Australia, the long- wheelbase version is offered.
Toyota parts RAV4 is assembled in the automaker's plant in Tahara, Aichi, Japan. However, in 2008, RAV4s to be sold in North America will be assembled in Toyota's Woodstock, Ontario, Canada plant.
Volvo Starts Green Concept
Going green has been the trend for most businesses nowadays. Google has gone ahead and replaced its roofs and walls with solar panels so as to save on energy and help decrease the amount of dangerous gases in the atmosphere. And Volvo has joined in the green craze.
Volvo has joined and hopped in the bandwagon. What it did is that it has already created, manufactured, and sent in new vehicle models that can be used utilizing alternative fuels that are not harmful to the environment. The brand has been able to actually create not only the quality Volvo V70 parts for the market but it has also created green and environment friendly vehicles. In fact, at present Volvo has nine vehicle models and three of these nine vehicles are already available as bio ethanol powered vehicles. These three vehicles are the Volvo C30, S40, and the V50. All these three are marketed in Europe and use engines with four cylinders.
Magnus Jonsson is the senior vice president of Volvo Cars’ Research and Development team. On this, he does say, “We believe that Flexifuel has great potential for larger engine sizes and we are planning to expand our range of bio ethanol powered engines in the coming years.”
However, this is not where the green craze ends. You see, Volvo has also created a new concept vehicle and they call it the Volvo XC60 concept vehicle. This concept car uses a powertrain that has the same six cylinders that the bio fuel using vehicles of the brand use. This powertrain is actually an in-line petrol engine which was already used by the Volvo S80 back when it came out in 2006. This very engine has got the capacity to actually give power to the concept car even if you put in E85, which is actually the term used for that fuel which is made up of 85 per cent bio ethanol and 15 per cent gasoline.
Combining the power of the E85 and the engine, they can then work up the Volvo XC60 concept car so much so that it can vroom up to 265 horsepower and some 251 pound feet of torque. In fact, Volvo says that they have been able to record the vehicle to zoom from zero to sixty seconds in 8.2 seconds.
Making A Statement With Custom Bumper Stickers
I was working at an awful office job a few years ago, when I suddenly came up with an idea for custom bumper stickers. I worked at one of those notoriously inefficient and micro-managerial environments that are common in the US. I have to put up with a little cubicle, and a boss that was constantly peeking over my shoulder. My boss was always spouting new slogans, printing up new customized promotional material, and adding more forms that we would fill out. He was doing this to increase the productivity of the company.
He came in with a batch of new custom bumper stickers, and told us to give them out to at least 10 people. Those awful stickers were printed in orange and green, which were supposed to catch the eye of the viewers. They were so eye catching that it was impossible to look away from them. Just looking at them would give you a headache, even though they were just small stickers. Being near them makes you feel that you were standing in a room painted with the neon paints.
My boss often printed up custom bumper stickers, custom coffee mugs, and the like, but he didn't have that high of a budget for advertising. I was also certain that he squandered what he had. It must be pretty reasonable if he could print up custom bumper stickers practically every week. I was able to ask some friends about the stickers that they printed out, since I was involved in the antiwar movement at the time. I found out that a person can get them made cheaply, so I decided to print out some of my own.
The custom bumper stickers that I printed out were mainly antiwar slogans, but I also made ones that were funny or cute. I also began taking requests from friends after a few weeks. One of my friends was disgruntled with her work place, so I printed out dozens of stickers making fun of that company. My friend would anonymously put them on the cars of everyone who worked there, sneak away, and give everyone a laugh without ever being caught.
I guess it was kind of a childish impulse, but I just couldn’t stop myself once I realized that I could make my own custom bumper stickers. Maybe it’s the same urge that drives people to paint building after building with graffiti. To tell you the truth, I’m still doing it these days. I have probably put guerrilla custom bumper stickers on more than a thousand vehicles.
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