Toyota Highlander News
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The 2011 Toyota Highlander Hybrid has been restyled and made more powerful as part of a comprehensive freshening of the Toyota Highlander line, last fully redesigned for the 2008 model year. Along with more prosaic gasoline-powered Highlanders, the front-end styling has been updated. The hood and headlights have been reshaped, and the hybrid's unique grille is different. At the rear, the taillights have been replaced and, less obviously, there's a new rear bumper. But it's under the hood that the most significant changes have been made. Toyota has increased the Highlander Hybrid's engine from...
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Only One Hybrid Car Pays Back Its Owners; Know Which One?One of the criticisms of hybrid cars has historically been that there's no payback, especially given the cheap gasoline prices in the U.S. The extra money you spend on a hybrid isn't returned in gas savings, say critics. Well, that may be true, especially when regular gasoline is averaging $2.77 a...
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Roundup: Hybrid SUVs and Crossovers from Ford, Toyota, Chevy
Our reader Celeste wrote to ask us about available hybrid SUVs and crossovers, and we thought our answer might be useful for the site. At the moment, there are three main hybrid SUVs sold in the U.S. Each of them also has variations sold under other brands. All are likely to be durable, as their...
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Green-Car Tip: Hybrid Vehicles Get Discounts, Incentives Too
While the auto industry in general offers an average incentive of more than $1,000 off the sticker price of any new vehicle, many buyers somehow assume this doesn't apply to hybrids. Oh, but it does. You can get money off pretty much any hybrid out there at the moment, since gasoline prices are far...
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Toyota Promises Affordable Fuel Cell Vehicle By 2015
Several automakers believe that fuel cell powered vehicles will become a viable solution for mass production in the distant future. In particular, Honda and General Motors have both displayed progress in development and real world testing of fuel cell powered vehicles. Toyota has also...
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Green Car Sales: Winners and Losers of 2009
It's beginning to look as if the worst is over for U.S. auto sales. The year that just closed was, in the immortal words of Queen Elizabeth II, an annus horribilis, with only 10.4 million vehicles sold, down 21 percent on 2008 and the lowest total since 1982. But some light seems to be appearing on...
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A U.S. trade panel has agreed to investigate claims that Toyota infringed privately held patents in designing its hybrid electric vehicles. Toyota is widely acknowledged to be the industry leader in hybrids, having sold more than 2 million globally since 1997. If the allegations are upheld by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Toyota could be ordered to stop using the patented technology in its Hybrid Synergy Drive system, and to bar the import of any Toyota vehicle containing it. Toyota: We will prevail Toyota, meanwhile, issued a strongly worded statement saying it would...
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2009 Toyota Highlander Hybrid: The Only Hybrid That Seats Seven
If you need seven seats and want a hybrid, there's only a single choice: the 2009 Toyota Highlander Hybrid
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