Toyota’s Profitable Trio in Canadian Automobile of the Yr Awards
Car Journalists Affiliation of Canada (AJAC) members choose Camry LE, Camry Hybrid and RAV4 as class winners for the 2007 Canadian Automobile of the Yr. Toyota Trio got the highest honors. Toyota Camry LE received within the Greatest New Household Automobile, Toyota Camry Hybrid, within the Greatest New Household Automobile, and Toyota RAV4 V6 Sport within the Greatest New SUV/CUV class.
“Toyota may be very completely happy to simply accept these awards and on behalf of everybody at Toyota in Canada, I would wish to thank AJAC’s members for these honors,” stated Stephen Beatty, Managing Director at Toyota Canada Inc. “The Toyota Camry is North America’s hottest passenger automobile. The Toyota Camry Hybrid represents an necessary evolution of gasoline-electric hybrid expertise within the second hottest market phase in Canada. And the redesigned Toyota RAV4 might be manufactured in Woodstock, Ontario when our new meeting plant, at present below building , begins manufacturing in 2008.”
Toyota Camry, a midsize automobile inbuilt Georgetown, Kentucky plant, is the best-selling automobile in the USA for 8 of the final 9 years beginning in 1997. Now in its sixth era, auto components for Toyota Camry have been notably redesigned although the size of the automobile remained unchanged. Kentucky plant produces roughly 45,000 Camrys yearly.
Toyota Camry OEM components boast performance and elegance. The brand new Camry can also be being manufactured by Toyota Motor Company Australia. The brand new era Camry in Australia went on sale final August. Its mannequin vary consists of the Altise, Ateva, Sportivo and Grande.
This 12 months, Toyota created a hybrid model of Camry. It was launched alongside the redesigned Camry. The automobile employs Hybrid Synergy Drive setup, which is an identical to that of Prius, Highlander Hybrid and Lexus RX 400h. Camry Hybrid makes use of a 4-cylinder gasoline engine that’s able to producing 192 horsepower. Customary options of the Camry Hybrid embrace knee airbags, facet torso airbags and side-curtain airbags, distant entry and begin.
Toyota RAV4, however, is a compact crossover SUV which was considerably redesigned for the 2006 mannequin 12 months. For now, Toyota RAV4 auto components are assembled within the automaker’s Tahara, Aichi, Japan meeting plant. Nevertheless, the meeting is predicted to be transferred in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada meeting plant when the latter comes on-line.
“These three autos are extraordinarily necessary to Toyota’s imaginative and prescient of the way forward for private transportation in Canada,” Mr. Beatty continued. “Subsequently, we’re happy that they’ve been chosen by AJAC’s members as the perfect of their respective classes.”
AJAC is an affiliation composed {of professional} journalists, writers and photographers who’re answerable for the protection in Canada’s auto trade.
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