The Brand New Toyota RAV4

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Toyota, a Japanese multinational automaker has always given customers a satisfaction with the innovative automobiles.  From the all-encompassing Toyota Qualis to stylish Camry, the vehicles by Toyota are much applauded and receive great feedback from the audience it targeted. The same company is now launching a new car, the ‘Toyota RAV4’ that is predicted to be released in 2013.
After a long period of stable development, Toyota has finally taken some major steps to increase the quality of the new vehicle and provide their loyal customers with many more reasons to love them. Supposed Toyota have lost their traditional swing gate cargo door and introduced the stylish roof hinged lift gate. This compact crossover also has traded in the V6 and third row of seats for a six-speed transmission. Off-Road Contest.
The cargo area is said to be a tad bit less but this is easily covered up by its superb fuel efficiency and smooth ride. Even so, the Toyota RAV4 is up against some formidable opponents in its compact crossover sect such as the versatile Honda CR-V6 and powerful Mazda CX-5. The popular Ford Escape is another competitor to reckon with.
The look of the RAV4 has been revamped from previous Toyota Models. For better or the worse, it looks smaller because of the change in rear wheel poosition. However, this vehicle looks quite dominating due to chrome-coated grilles and plastic fangs that adorn its body. The actual vehicle itself is just very slightly smaller than previous versions. This difference is insignificant when applied to the size of a car.

4×4 Off-Road Contest and Challenge In the United Kingdom

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The thought that your 4×4 is going through a muddy puddle can pose dislike to some people.  However, many people from all over the world simply love the thought of navigating around the ruts, ditches, and water splashes. All of these can be achieved with the help of a seasoned off-road instructor.

The fact is that you can spend one hour or even a whole day driving around. This contest is going to be a massive challenge to your sense of concentration. This contest and challenge in one will make you feel exhilarated, excited, and thrilled as you prepare yourself for the hills, spills, thrills, and breathtaking fun…and mud, really, really lots of muds.

Who can participate?

A participant needs not to be necessarily experienced. This is true in the sense that all sessions tackled vary from one another. This is a way by which the abilities of the drivers are being tested. Every participant will be briefed dealing with the different safety measures that need to be observed while you’re at the track.

After the briefing, participants will be taken to the track. This is going to be their opportunity to apply all of the things they have learned from the session. Since these kinds of events are commonly held on private areas, even a sixteen-year old kid can join.

However, when a young participant aims to join the event, there is a need for him to see and talk to the organizers first.

Participants are also required to meet the standard height of any participating individual. The participant should be able to reach the pedal and also have to avoid himself from concussions. And for those people who have nervous disposition are advised not to go on with their plan of joining.

However, one has to consider the fact that there is something very strange when it comes to tearing some one’s vehicle.

These events need not to be in hilly areas. The locations for this particular event come with many locations all over the country and most of them are manmade. Courses also differ in terms of difficulty and type.

For those people who simply love the extremes then there are certain options that include manmade obstacles and steep ascents. You are required to travel far as these are usually found in certain locations.

Take time to see and talk to the UK Off-road Contest and Challenge organizers to learn about the best locations that best suit your needs.

Off-Road Car Contests: What Are They?

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Off-road contests are actually seen in many different parts of the world and they are being organized in all continents of the world. Depending on the organizer of the contest, a particular contest may come in its own format.

Say for example, an organizer of an off-road contest may just want to prove the skills and excellence of the drivers when it comes to driving in different terrains and environmental conditions.

On the other hand, there are also organizers that mainly test the technical abilities of the cars and vehicles rather than the skills of the driver.

Or organizers can test both: the drivers’ skills and the participating cars’ technical abilities.
Of the many different types of off-road contests taking place all over the world, the Paris Dakar Rally proves to be one of the most popular. Even when this kind of contest is known as a rally, it is actually a contest that entails endurance.

This kind of competition was first introduced in 1978 wherein participants are required to drive a very long distance from Paris to Dakar. In the turn of 2008, this off-road competition was moved to the southern Americas.

Off-Road Car Contests: What Are They?

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Basing from the name, you can easily distinguish the true nature of this contest. Basically, you will come to know that off-road contests depict a certain type of race or competition which is to be joined by specially tuned or modified vehicles. These vehicles are modified well so that they will be able to undergo different types of terrains and various conditions of the natural environment.

Joining vehicles have to travel on roads covered with rocks, stones, sand, mud, and snow. The truth is that any kind of terrain can be used by off-road contest organizers as the environment in which the competitors will go driving into.

Basically, the more difficult the terrain becomes the more the skills of the motorists and the car manufacturers are being tested. This will prove to everyone which among the lineup of manufacturers proves to be the best one that can stand the different conditions of the terrains where the participants need to pass through.

As a matter of fact, cars are not the only ones which are allowed to join off-road contests but other types of vehicles as well. Some of the most common types of vehicles which participate in an off-road contest are single motorcycles, buggies, and even trucks.

AMSOIL Opens Cup with Largest Prize in History

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With the most anticipated weekend of off-road racing coming up, Crandon International Off-Road Raceway plays host to the annual Labor Day Weekend Championships.  An important milestone to this year’s weekend of short course races is AMSOIL’s announcement of a larger purse in the AMSOIL Cup. This is the third straight year the AMSOIL will sponsor the race and the increase in prize is in line with the AMSOIL’s celebrating 40 years in the automotive engine oil industry.
Chad Hord took home the AMSOIL Cup last year, worth a first prize of $25,000. It was only the third time in the race’s running that a PRO2 won the race. This year if Hord is lucky enough to win the cup once more, he will be walking away with an even bigger pot- $40,000 all thanks to AMSOIL, the industry number 1 in innovative and premiere lubricating oil.
AMSOIL Race Program Executive Jeremy Meyer has expressed his anticipation of the upcoming race and has stated high hopes for the cup. He acknowledged that the Labor Day races at Crandon are the highpoint of short-course racing in America, and AMSOIL is happy to participate in the event with the sponsorship of the AMSOIL Cup. The $40,000 first prize is one of the biggest top prizes in short-course racing. Meyer also expects that the racers are as excited about the AMSOIL cup.

AMSOIL Opens Cup with Largest Prize in History

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The AMSOIL Cup was first run in 2010 and featuring the competition between popular TORC PRO 2WD and PRO 4×4 trucks over 10 laps. What makes the playing field more even is the 12-second initial start handicap given to PRO 2WD trucks. Hord won last year while the inaugural title was claimed by Scott Douglas. With the recent Chairman’s Cup being held at the Crandon’s as a season opener this year (June 16), the excitement keeps on mounting for the upcoming AMSOIL Cup tournament.
In the Chairman’s Cup Brush Run, the race came down to a RAM/Mopar factory Pro2WD with Rob MacCashren claiming the win by outdriving a persistent Adrian Cenni of Real Tree Energy on a PRO 4x. Cenni lost his chance at claiming the cup when he busted out one of the rear tires and skidding off track after a top speed dash and eventually placing him behind MacCachren’s tracks.
Crandon International Off-Road Raceway’s Cliff Flannery also mentioned his excitement and gratitude to the continuing support of AMSOIL. In a statement, Flannery expressed Crandon’s enthusiasm about the partnership in promoting highly anticipated off-road projects. He acknowledged AMSOIL’s generous participation to the Crandon races. He also mentioned that drivers from all over the country join the Crandon fall events and that with the $40,000 first prize, the AMSOIL Cup has become an even bigger attraction.

GM Sets in Redesigning All Pick-up Line-ups

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It’s been roaming around that GM is all set in redesigning all of its existing and incoming pick-up trucks and in the list is its Chevrolet Silverado and Sierra pick-ups.

GM’s decision of redesigning has been getting around for the reason of offering better fuel economy for trucks and pick-up line ups. Not only GM trucks and pick-ups will have new chassis but also will be sporting new interior and exterior styling, a way too far from its previous styling concept. To make it a better choice for drivers, GM’s trucks will have improved aerodynamics and not to mention engine improvements to make it a lighter but high performance with an eight-speed automatic transmission. GM’s reaction is based on its decision to invest heavily on technology and thus boosts its campaign for fuel economy on its pick-up and trucks side.

It is expected to see more than 1500 newly redesigned pick-ups early this years and in the coming next year, another 2500 redesigned variants to reach dealer’s lots. All with new sheet metals and new cosmetics beaming with proud interior improvements.

With some tweaks on the grille and new hood and front fascia, GM fanatics won’t complain of getting too far from its general image as a one tough road pick-up. Expect to see the arrival of these light-duty 1500 trucks next year when GM starts delivering on dealer’s garage.

New Chassis and suspension plus some steering changes were given to GM’s Silverado and Sierrra 2010 models and a re-engineered diesel engine make this two GM’s pride to make grand entrance for the year 2010. However, both the Silverado and Sierra still have to go with this GM’s redesigning idea.

In the past, GM has been in recall troubles and financial crisis however, with newly build-up enthusiasm for GM’s trucks and pick-ups, the once trouble-gripped carmaker is now bouncing back to its top position. GM is all out in investing to technology to speed up its claim to a better and efficient fuel economy for its trucks and pick-up. With its redesigning decision, GM is keen on getting even more improved sales for its trucks and pick-ups. GM’s Silverado and Seirra generations are not giving its competitors a leeway of domineering the sales but more of giving them a tough competition. With GM’s redesigning move, car buyers can expect to own an efficient and better fuel economy GM trucks.

Nissan News

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Once the driver receives the alert that the tire has low pressure, still, it will be their responsibility to pump up the tire, the usual way. As they do the process, and the air starts to fill in the tire, the four-way flashers of the vehicle will appear to affirm the process of pressure increase has commenced, and when it reached the certain pressure level, the car’s horn will automatically give appropriate sound to let the driver knows that the tire has been completely inflated.  Once they keep letting the tires filled with air, the horn will produce more aggressive honks to give them serious alarms.

There are lots of advantages in having

properly inflated tires. In fact, it has a direct effect on your car’s miles coverage per gallon of diesel. This signifies that you can save a lot of fuel with the help of this tire alarm system. According to the latest study conducted by the Department of Energy in US, cars that have properly monitored tires can increase their mileage by 3.3 %. It always pays to care about your tires and to your car as a whole. This one of a kind tire alarm system will be integrated by Nissan to their models from 2013 and beyond.

Nissan News

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Nissan Will Integrate Their New Tire Pressure Warning System on their New Models. Checking the condition and pressure of tires ought to be one of the daily tasks of the driver before revving up the engine and stepping the accelerator. But in reality, not all drivers are thoroughly checking their tires in every trip, thus following the recommended once a week check-up on their tire’s condition. Also, if set for a long journey, drivers only have the chance to check their tire during stop-over or if they decide to pull-over.  The condition of the tire is usually ignored unless its five years old and above, but not that they know of, tires are vital in any driver’s safety once he/she is holding the steering wheel.

You will be surely amazed about the new invention of Nissan wherein it will definitely address the little but significant concern about tires mentioned earlier. Nissan released their fresh “easy fill tire alert system”. This innovative tire alert system serves as a control module that comes with tire-pressure system that warns and gives alert to drivers when the tires have low-pressure. Some models of Nissan cars will also display real-time tire pressure that will be placed with style in the car’s dashboard. How cool is that! With this alert system, the driver can monitor all the tire needs in just a single glance while driving. Off-Road Contests.

Off-Road Contests – What Are They?2

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After the 2008 Dakar rally, the contest was moved to South America. This took place because of the security threats taking place in the different regions of Africa that has also caused the termination of the rally in that same year.

Off-road contests are open to beginners, amateurs, and professionals. However, it is very obvious that because of the different terrain and weather conditions during the contest, only the best ones are expected to finish the race. In the same way, the drivers that drive the best cars are also more likely to endure the different terrain conditions and will surely be the ones to finish the race.

People who are so much passionate and fascinated on off–road contests should also be familiar with the Taupo One Thousand Race in New Zealand. It is also a kind of endurance competition because it is a kind of stand-alone contest. This contest usually last for two days and it is also expected that the toughest and most resistant contestants can win in this game.