As Andrew Whyte relates the story of Jaguar styling in SIA #53, June 1981, the luxury aspect of the company’s products dates all the way back to its days when it went by the company name Swallow and it built upscale bodies for Austins. Whyte takes the story of Jaguar design through the post-war era, illustrating the unique relationship Jaguar had with the coachbuilders of the day.
Also, as Autoblog reminded us this past week, Jaguar is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the marque’s…
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Japanese manufacturers, residents of the BLAND unit in the trauma ward that is the modern auto industry (for the most part), put out some huge and extremely popular sports cars in the 90’s.
Toyota had the twin-turbo Supra; Mitsubishi had the 3000GT VR-4; Mazda had the twin-turbo RX-7 and Nissan had the twin-turbo 300ZX and Skyline GT-Rs. And…
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By Brendan Moore
02.07.2010
NADA Used Car Guide and Kelley Blue Book, the two most popular used vehicle value guides for consumers, and two of the most often used wholesale vehicle pricing guides used by dealers and lenders, have both announced that they are dropping values for Toyota models affected by the current recall.
Black Book, a used [...]
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Washington — Toyota Motor Corp. will resume production at six North American assembly plants on Monday after a one-week shutdown, the company said Sunday. Toyota spokesman Mike Michels said the company has enough replacement pedals to begin turning out vehicles again.
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Hyundai and Audi already appear to be reaping the rewards of buying Super Bowl ads, even though this year a 30-second spot can run as much as $2.8 million.That hasn’t stopped double the number of automakers with ads in last year’s game to advertise this year. Even before the game, an ad from Hyundai showing Brett Favre winning the MVP award in 2020 has accelerated to third place in our weekly chart of the top 10 most popular automotive video ads.“We don’t know what things will be like 10 years from now…
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Readers of the Nikkei [sub] are greeted this morning with the purported news that by the end of this month, Toyota “is expected” to recall its Sai and Lexus HS250h hybrids, which use the same braking system as the Prius hybrid. Furthermore, “the company is believed to have decided” to recall the current Prius, “and [...]
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After piles of books have been written about the „Toyota Way,“ this round of recalls will have a permanent place in the annals of how to completely NSFW-up crisis management. The epicenter of the disaster at Toyota is not in the pedal dept., it is not in the software development dept., it is in the [...]
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GoDaddy.com’s seconds 2010 Super Bowl XLIV commercial shows Danica Patrick shocked when a sexy newscaster gets ‘too hot for TV’ during a live TV interview about “GoDaddy Commercials Too Hot for TV?”
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Bridgestone’s second Super Bowl XLIV commercial takes you on a journey to a future world. A wet, desperate world where absolutely nothing is more valuable than a great set of high-performance tires – not even your wife.
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