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Toyota Corolla EX facelift spied without camouflage in China
China is a massive market for not only cars but everything, and since the market is huge, each automaker uses different version of their cars. For example, luxury automakers such as Audi, BMW and Mercedes produce a long wheel base version of their vehicles for China since Chinese people have a thing for increased leg room in their cars. Although due to the land dispute between arch rivals China and Japan, Toyota has had to shut down quite a few plants in China amid poor sales as Chinese people strongly protested against Japan however, Toyota is preparing to launch a …
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Toyota recalls 7.4 million cars globally over faulty window switches
Over here, you have to go to court to make manufacturers fix the faulty parts put in your purchase commodity while in other parts of the world, recalling a car over a faulty part is common practice carried out by the concerning manufacturer. Toyota Prius were involved in deaths over stuck accelerators which tarnished its image and it failed to act timely now however, Toyota claims to have reacted timely over faulty windows switches which if fixed by local mechanics/technicians could result in melting of the switches and eventually catching fire. Toyota is recommending to owners that they shouldn’t use …
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Spy pictures: 2014 Toyota Corolla caught testing
Automotive spy photographers just caught Toyota’s engineers testing the next Corolla and by how things look, it seems the next Corolla will be completely revamped instead of minor design changes as Toyota has done in past. Although Toyota Corolla is the second best selling car in the world, the changes in design and styling is rather minor but now, it seems that Toyota is keen on making Corolla’s styling, competitive. The boxy lines of the current Corolla looks to be replaced with a sportier look that includes a sloping hood and a shorter decklid which features design cues from new …
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Why Indus Motors decided to close down for a while and how it is the only one to be blamed
Although government had announced late last year that the automakers should prepare and switch over to Euro-II emissions standards by July 2012 however, Indus Motors was short-sighted in making the necessary change to bring Corolla to match the Euro-II standards and thusly, had to increase the prices overnight when the deadline of July to switch over to Euro-II standards had passed and companies hastily switched over to the new Euro standards which sent the customers, who had booked their cars on pre-increase prices, into a shock from which 1800 customers decided not to return and asked for a complete refund. …
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Pak Suzuki and Indus Motors have decided to shut down their factories
We still remember President’s interview to some TV channel where Mr. President said that everything fine and dandy in Pakistan, it’s just the interviewer who thinks that there are problems. Apart from the problem we reported on the previous post, here’s another grave problem on the brink of which lies thousands of jobs. Indus Motors and Pak Suzuki have decided to close down their plants temporarily to control their expenses and the production volume as demand has fallen down by a great margin. While the economy is in shambles which makes up one important and major influence on the problem …
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Toyota Corolla is the best selling car in the world
Latest sales figures of the first quarter of 2012 have given us the results of what cars sold the most throughout the world and as it comes as no surprise, two of the top three best-selling cars in the world are Toyotas. During the first three months of 2012, Toyota Corolla took the top spot of the best selling car in the world with 300,800 cars sold with the Ford Focus trailing in the second spot with 277,000 cars sold and third most selling car was the Toyota’s flagship Hybrid vehicle, the Prius with 247,230 cars sold around the globe. …
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Indus Motors considers LPG cars after CNG ban
Ever since the ban was forced upon the import of CNG in the wake of the prolonged natural gas crisis, it has forced auto assemblers to look for other options as their sales have been witnessing decrease as the number were largely made up of cng cars’ sold. Now Pakistani auto assemblers are considering to introduce LPG kit fitted cars which is a good decision taken so late that it is a bad one now because if LPG has been introduced during the availability of CNG kits, the buyers and consumers could’ve enjoyed lower prices on fuel as well as …
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PHD from Lahore invents a Toyota Corolla which runs on water
There are many scam out there on the internet and the world trying to lure you into buying their product to save precious money through fuel saving and all of them are fake. The best fake though is worth mentioning, it was some sort of am/fm modulator look-like device that claimed to save fuel to as much as 50% if you plugged it in your car’s lighter dock. However, Dr. Ghulam Sarwar, was recently covered by local tv channel as he revealed his latest Toyota Corolla which runs on water. According to Dr. Sarwar, the car runs on 60% water …
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Zero-meter 1974 Toyota Corollas found in Cyprus
When Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974, Turkish retaliation was imminent which broke out a war between Turkey and Greece. Peace was later found by UN intervention and dividing Cyprus into two parts just like Kashmir is divided amongst India and Pakistan. As UN peacekeepers went on to document Nicosia, Cyprus, a Toyota showroom was found with 1974 Toyota Corolla stalled there with literally zero meter clocked in their odometers. Beneath the Ledra Palace Hotel in the abandoned city of Varosha is a treasure trove of dilapidated but nearly unused Toyotas. Dust-covered Corollas, Corona Mark IIs and Celicas can be seen …
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Indus Motors’ new Corolla variants
Well it’s been couple of days since the highly anticipated new models were introduced, namely GLi and Altis. Although these variants has been in the line up of previous models of Corolla, but the newer line up of Corolla had to endure these variants in their line up. Last time when the first 2010 Altis was introduced, the entire car seemed fine to me but there was these two letters “SR” kept constantly bugging me since I was unable to comprehend their meaning and also they seemed like Mercedes Benz uses AMG for its awesome range of vehicles. But had …
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