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- Honda, Mazda, Toyota voted most reliable cars
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Posted on 12-09-2008
Consumer New Zealand has released the results of its reliability survey, which has been asking motorists to report on their past 12 months of car ownership each year since 1999.
The three manufacturers causing the least headaches year in and year out were Honda, Mazda and Toyota. [more...]
- Demand for oil predicted to outstrip supply within 5 years
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Posted on 16-07-2007
We think that it will increase up to 80, 90 maybe 100 US dollars a barrel within the next year, which means another dollar a litre increase to the NZ public when they go to the fuel pump,” Alan Hart of ASPO told 3 News. [more...]
- North America's Highest Mileage Hybrid Taxis
- Posted on 30-03-2006
Consumers often have concerns about new vehicle technologies, especially about features that may be costly to repair, such as a hybrid system. Canada’s highest mileage Prius, a 2001 model, has operated for over 410,000 kilometres with only a few maintenance repair issues... [more...]
- 2004 Toyota Prius Hybrid
- Posted on 14-09-2005
One Prius was used as a taxi in Vancouver and logged over 300,000 km - until Toyota coaxed the owner to give it back to them for evaluation. Perhaps even Toyota was amazed at the durability of its product, which developed no powertrain or other mechanical problems at all during its long life. Incidentally, the taxi driver was rewarded for his cooperation with a new Prius... [more...]
- Race to be clean and green
- Posted on 01-07-2005
A report out of Europe last week said that Toyota aimed to cut the cost of (Hydrogen) fuel-cell cars to US$50,000 (NZ$70,000) from more than US$1 million (NZ$1.4 million) by 2015. [more...]
- Toyota's hybrid Prius sets Bonneville record
- Posted on 11-06-2005
"A specially adapted Toyota Prius has swopped Sunset Boulevard and the Hollywood Hills for the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah to set a world speed record for hybrid-powered cars." [more...]
- Nissan Altima Hybrid
- Posted on 09-06-2005
"It’s the first few curves that get the blood pumping. The realization sets in: This is no anemic hybrid iteration of a popular sedan, no downsized engine aspiring to raise itself by its electric bootstraps to a higher level of highway enlightenment." [more...]
- Hybrid Sports Cars
- Posted on 09-06-2005
"In the not-too-distant future, that blur in the fast lane is as likely to be motivated by a high-tech hybrid power plant as it is an exotic, high-horsepower internal combustion engine. Surprised? You shouldn't be." [more...]
- What You Should Know About Hybrid Cars
- Posted on 09-06-2005
"A jackass, someone once said, is a cross between a donkey and a horse. A hybrid, in plainer words. " [more...]
- Canada's Thriftiest Vehicles
- Posted on 07-06-2005
"With the price of gas hovering on the wrong side of the 80-cent/litre mark in many areas, vehicle buyers are likely to be taking more than a cursory glance at those informative mileage stickers attached to the windshield of every new vehicle on your dealer's lot." [more...]
- Push to keep 4x4 vehicles out of city
- Posted on 07-06-2005
"Drivers of cumbersome four-wheel-drive vehicles may find it harder to squeeze into central Auckland if the city council's transport leader has his way. " [more...]
- Hybrids guilt-free way to go
- Posted on 07-06-2005
"Hybrid powerplants provide "high-performance without the guilt - or chocolate without the calories," says Lexus New Zealand executive Alistair Davis. [more...]
- Hybrid Hype?
- Posted on 02-06-2005
Fact and Fiction Surrounding the New Technology
"...the Prius battery leads a pretty easy life. We have lab data showing the equivalent of 180,000 miles with no deterioration and expect it to last the life of the vehicle... Since the car went on sale in 2000, Toyota has not replaced a single battery for wear and tear." [more...]
- Scary stories, seemingly untrue, failing to scare away hybrid buyers ... so far
- Posted on 02-06-2005
"A Toyota spokesman said the Prius battery is designed to last 180,000 miles with no deterioration, aided by a battery-power management system designed to keep the battery at an optimum charge level that never fully drains or recharges it..." [more...]
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