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Forbes names 12 hardest new cars to find

With many automakers scaling back production to better balance supply with demand, it's not surprising there are several hard-to-find models right now. Forbes Magazine made some calls and did a little research and turned up what they say is the top 12 most difficult to find cars. After the run on high-mileage cars recently, you'd expect to see hybrid models like the Toyota Prius at No. 2 on the list. Tied for second is a car on the other extreme, the Chevrolet Camaro. Both model are spending an average of 18.5 days on dealer lots. But ... Read more →

Reports of Toyota RAV4 gearbox woes mount as owner anger grows Michael Harley

Imagine merging into speeding highway traffic when your transmission suddenly balks at the shift, leaving you struggling to choose between that 70,000-pound semi filling your rear view mirror or the ...

Toyota announces pricing for 2010 models, upgraded engine for FJ Cruiser Jonathon Ramsey

Toyota's 2010 lineup will receive a suite of aesthetic, performance, and safety changes and minor price bumps, beginning with the FJ Cruiser. ToMoCo's chunky 'ute gets engine mods that include ...

Review: 2009 Toyota RAV4 Sport strikes agreeable balance Dan Roth

The small crossover segment, where the neo-sorta-trucks live, is one of the hottest battlegrounds for consumer dollars. Small skirmishes go on in the border regions; confused vehicles don't know ...

SEMA 2008: Toyota RAV4 "Performance Sport" lacks performance and sport Damon Lavrinc

Santa Ana-based MV Designz took Toyota's overtly practical RAV4 and kicked the majority of the 'ute's functionality out the hatch. With a custom wide body kit, front and rear fascias, LED ...

As yen sweetens, Toyota sales sour 1 year ago on Autoblog

Being Toyota doesn't grant you any additional immunity from simple global economics. Word from Tokuichi Uranishi, executive vice president of Toyota, is that one of the world's largest automakers is going to miss its sales target of 9.85 million vehicles for 2008. Toyota execs cite slowing ...

JAPAN: Look! Another Toyota crossover 2 years ago on Autoblog

What was wrong with Toyota's popular little SUV the RAV4? Not enough seats apparently, so Toyota have heeded their customers' cries with this, the 7 seat Vanguard. Based on a stretched RAV4 floorpan, even some of the body panels come from the '4. Launched today in Tokyo, the Vanguard comes with a ...

Audi's Q5 CUV coming to Geneva 2 years ago on Autoblog

As Audi's relentless quest to fill every conceivable automotive niche continues, the folks of the interlocking rings plan to unveil the Q5 at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show. According to AutoExpress, the Q5 will share its underpinnings with the recently released A5 and will draw on the styling cues ...

Lutz lets a bit of Edmunds survey slip, GM takes 13 first place picks 2 years ago on Autoblog

Sometimes news is just too good to keep to yourself. Just ask GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz. With his company supposedly claiming 13 spots on Edmund's Consumers' Most Wanted list, Lutz just had to brag a bit on the corporate blog before the winners were made public. And he should brag. Most other car ...

Saturn Vue gets a $3k bump in the sticker 2 years ago on Autoblog

Well, $3,295 to be exact. The base price of the new and greatly improved Vue will come in at $21,395 (with shipping), placing it squarely in the same pricing segment as the Honda CR-V ($21,195) and Toyota RAV4 ($21,595). According to Robert Reuter, GM's chief engineer for compact and crossover ...

Spy Shots: 2009 Ford isosis-X 2 years ago on Autoblog

Some cloaked shots of the production version of Ford's newest cute ute have surfaced. First shown as the iosis-X concept in Paris, this C-segment crossover features that same "kinetic design language" we see in Ford of Europe's S-MAX and C-MAX, in a size that slots between the two. This small ...

Upwardly mobile: Toyota lifts prices on seven 2007 models 3 years ago on Autoblog

This just in from the Department of Mundanity: Toyota hikes prices on seven models in their 2007 lineup. Overall, it's nothing spectacular, with MSRPs rising just 0.7-percent or $136 on average. The vehicles included in the price increase are the Yaris, with a bump of $100, the unchanged and ...

False alarm: Toyota recalls 220,000 vehicles for lying check engine light 3 years ago on Autoblog

In addition to the recalls announced by Volkswagen today, we should all tell you about a recall Toyota issued on Wednesday for check engine lights in some 60,700 Highlanders built from 2001 through 2003 and 159,100 RAV4s built in 2001 and 2002. The Malfunction Indicator, as it's called by sticklers, ...

Do you CRaVe the new CR-V? 3 years ago on Autoblog

Honda's new CR-V is all about satisfying your CRaVings, or so we're all about to be told. Rubin Postaer & Associates (RPA) is behind the new sport ute's $50 million advertising push, which lauches September 28. The ads draw upon the animation and fun reminiscent of Civic and Fit commercials, ...

BMW X1 to take on the VW Tiguan 3 years ago on Autoblog

Germany's own Autobild magazine printed the above rendering of what may be BMW's attempt at crashing the ever-competitive small SUV segment. Although Toyota and Honda have been the biggest players over the past several years, Volkswagen obviously saw a niche that needed to be filled with the ...

Crash Results: Camry and RAV4 leading, Caliber makes improvement over Neon 3 years ago on Autoblog

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) just can't stop ramming large, bumper shaped projectiles into the newest vehicles for 2007. Today the IIHS released the results of it most recent tests and it looks like Toyota is well represented at the top and the Caliber has made impressive ...

VW Tiguan begins to take shape 3 years ago on Autoblog

Volkswagen's oddly named Tiguan (hey, the people have spoken), has broken cover on the current issue of Germany's Auto Bild magazine. Although clearly a computer-generated interpretation of VW's cute 'ute, the cover shot gives a more realistic rendering of what is to be Volkswagen's answer to the ...

2006 Suzuki Grand Vitara 4x4 in the Autoblog Garage Day 3-4 3 years ago on Autoblog

Fish around in your pants for the Suzuki's fob, punch the unlock button, pull the handle, and clamber inside. Or, rather, you might've, were there actually a need to engage in a bit of pocket-lint spelunking. Not so with the new Grand Vitara. In an unusual move for its class, Suzuki has fitted ...

Ford Focus-based SUV for Europe? 3 years ago on Autoblog

It's a sktechy translation, but we're diggin' it anyway... there's a rumor around some European blogs that Ford is working on a compact SUV based on the Focus for the European market. Set directly in its sights will be the Honda CR-V and the Toyota RAV4, so we highly doubt it will appear here unless ...

2006 Suzuki Grand Vitara 4x4 in the Autoblog Garage Day 1-2 3 years ago on Autoblog

Suffice it to say that Suzuki has never stunned North American consumers with beautiful automotive designs. In point of fact, reviewing their history reveals a certain manic quality, little of it pretty. Oddball propositions like the toy-like X-90 and character-free Esteem have given way to the ...

New York Auto Show: 2007 Mitsubishi Outlander on-hand impressions 3 years ago on Autoblog

Mitsubishi's first Outlander unwittingly lived up to its name, operating on the fringes of mainstream SUVdom, largely failing to cross-over to the widespread success of competitors like Ford's Escape and Honda's CR-V. It wasn't that it was a horrible vehicle, but it didn't offer much in the way of ...

The ten hottest-selling cars in America 3 years ago on Autoblog

In the U.S. market at least, it's great to be a Toyota dealer. According to CNNMoney.com and Edmunds.com, Toyota's Prius tops the list of 10 hottest cars in America, with six Toyota models making the list (including all three Scion models). Hybrids are hot, too - the Prius, Lexus RX400h and Ford ...






Autoblog Podcast #157: Mike Levine trucks along with us.

Mike Levine from PickupTrucks.com joins Chris, Sam, and Dan this week and gets a chance to talk about cars, too! 

 
 

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