Daily Torque – Automotive News

Time passes so quickly that we are at week #16 of our automotive news quicklinks. We hope that you like our news as we ourselves find it fun reading these news:-

[News] Blow before you can start your car – These are enforced for those with previous alcohol driving conviction in New York State.
[Hero] 3 Teen lift [...]

Almost everyone in the car industries is moving towards the greener technology with less emission. Just last week Toyota delivered one of five Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid PHV to its Quebec provincial partners at a ceremony. There will be 500 of this hybrid next year January to be put on the road in USA, Europe [...]

Toyota’s cheif test driver, Hiromu Naruse, 67 years old, has dies in a crash on highway 410 near Nürburgring race track in Germany. Naruse-san has joined Toyota since 1963 and is so-called the Godfather of the Lexus LFA.
This is a prototype of a special edition of the Lexus LFA which crashed head-on to a BMW [...]

Friday is here again ! whoohoo. And some quick catch up on some of the news happening this week around the automotive industry:-

$2.93 million Bugatti Veyron Model made of Gold – More expensive than the actual car at $1.7million
Hybrid Retrofit System in 6 hours – This is some cool Hybrid DIY Kit
Flying Car Design, Yee [...]

An unprofessionally filmed video of the whooping 850hp Toyota Supra vs Suzuki GSX-R 1000 Rizzla Edition in a 1/4 mile race is Germany. It was said to be an event but finds it weird that the person on the bike does not even wear any safety gears.

We are all waiting for this new 2010 Toyota Vios Price in Malaysia, unfortunately both our neighbouring countries, Thailand and Indonesia will get a piece of the new 2010 Toyota Vios facelift.

On March 8, Jim Sikes called 911 when his car was speeding and his brake does not work. This sound like the gas padel issue but it wasn’t reported by Toyota that Prius was affected. And this raise the question if this is just some Hoax pull off by Jim Sikes who is filing for [...]

The new Toyota Vios is launched in Thailand now as per our previous post on the spyshots.

Toyota had been hit badly with all the recent recall of its Toyota Prius, Toyota Brake recall, and also Toyota lawsuit of shrinking resale value. Despite getting hit with so much bad news, we are glad that Toyota is trying to convey that they had learn the lesson and that they will work to restore [...]

It seems that the 8 million Toyota Recall has not ended. Toyota plan to recall its 2010 Toyota Prius hybrid model after some complaints regarding its brake.
Toyota will be recalling at least 311,000 with 103,000 in the United States and 176,000 in Japan. Two other model is also under investigation if it should be recalled, [...]