Toyota showed the Big Prius to Detroit

Toyota Motor presented on Detroit Motor Show compact minivan Prius which received an additional prefix V. According to representatives of the Japanese manufacturer, the novelty have a 50% more place in a baggage compartment, than at usual Prius.

Toyota Prius: from Hybrid to Minivan

The novelty overall length — 4,615 mm, width — 1,775 mm, the height — 1,574 mm, and reaches the size of a wheelbase of 2,778 mm. It on 115, 30, 74 and 78 mm accordingly more than at usual Toyota Prius Coupe. Volume of a luggage compartment of a compact minivan of Toyota Prius V — 971 litre. Besides, it is possible to prolong a loading platform for transportation of large-sized cargoes, completely combining a back of an armchair of the front passenger.

Also, a new minivan Toyota Prius have a new central extension housing. The form of the extension housing first of all changed, the lever of a gear box and the starting engine operation button have been transferred hardly above, the new block of climate control, other air vents of system of ventilation, and also new multimedia system by Entune with advanced navigation.

In the technical plan the compact minivan differs nothing from a Prius hatchback. According to the manufacturer, in a city cycle fuel consumption the compact minivan makes 5,6 litres/100 km, and in mixed — 5,8 litres.

In the US car market of sale of a new Toyota Prius begin since summer of current year.

2011 Toyota Prius V Concept

Honda Motor lays off Legend and Elysion

Honda Motor prepares changes in a ruler of the cars to give more attention to release of harmless and accessible at the price of cars, newspaper Nikkei informs.

Legend & Elysion must have a hybrids!

Two expensive cars — Honda Legend sedan and Honda Elysion minivan — will be stoped. In the Japanese car market, since 2011 sales of the classical version of Honda Civic will be stopped, on sale there will be only a hybrid version.

Honda Legend remains on sale only in the US car market under Acura RL brand name.

Toyota Verso-S appears on sale in February, 2011

New compact minivans strengthens a competition in a modelling segment «B» and expands Toyota lineup in Europe.

2011 Toyota Verso S

Without superfluous grandiosity Toyota announced in Paris Motor Show new compact minivans. Toyota asserts that the novelty is entered in segment «B» only on external dimensions. The interior and equipment should become a basis of appeal Verso-S. The model in a segment receives for the first time the multipurpose touch screen on the central extension housing. The rear-view camera and rear parking gauges is established also.

The panoramic roof is accessible to ample opportunities of transformation of interior, and also for comfort increase. The maximum volume for load makes impressive 1 388L at the combined seats. The rear seat develops in the ratio 60/40, forming an equal platform.

For Toyota Verso-S offer two engines: a diesel engine and petrol. The 1,4-l diesel engine has capacity in 90HP and a twisting moment in 205Nm. In a range between 1 800 and 2 800 rpm. The petrol 1,33-l engine possesses capacity in 99HP and a twisting moment in 126Nm. Fuel consumption in the petrol version makes, 5,5 l/100 km, and in diesel — 4,3 l/100 km agree to the data of the manufacturer.

Both engines in a standard complete set are combined with 6-step mechanical transmission. For surcharge the petrol version can be got from the robotised 6-step check point, and diesel — with a variator having 7 virtual steps.

On Toyota Verso-S sale appears in February of the next year (also as updated Toyota Auris). Detailed structure of complete sets and the price will be published later.

Toyota Verso S on the Paris Motor Show 2010

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Nissan prepares a new generation of Quest

Nissan company prepares for release the next, fourth generation of minivan Quest.

Minivan Nissan Quest 2010

According to the informal data, the 4-door family car almost on 15 sm becomes longer than the predecessor. The minivan will have a forward control and will be equiped 3,7-l V6 with engine power of 300HP.

The world debut of minivan Quest will takes place at a autoshow in Los Angeles (November, 2010), but sales in the North America and Japan will start in the first quarter 2011.

Special Release Nissan Quest SL

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The debut of completely updated Honda Odyssey

Honda Motor represents completely updated version of Odyssey 2011.

The most popular, according to the official statistics, the minivan in the USA has received considerably more an aggressive view at the expense of dynamical reliefs on lateral doors and a unique line of a bottom edge of lateral doors.

2011 Honda Odyssey

In comparison with the previous generation, new Odyssey became more low and more widely, this circumstance has allowed to improve aerodynamics of a minivan and, hence, to lower the fuel expense.

In an interior of updated Odyssey irreplaceable options for family trips: HDTV of high clearness and system of separate use of the screen. In the American car salons new Honda Odyssey will appear in the autumn of 2010.

Honda Odyssey on Chicago AutoShow

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Toyota prepares a minivan Prius

Toyota Motor prepares for start of new hybrid minivan Prius.

New minivan Toyota Prius

It will be the new car first completely has added in a series of hatchbacks Prius. New release of minivan Prius will begin in 2011. Also, Toyota aspires to keep cost of hybrid minivan Toyota Prius at level of cost of standard minivans.

Hybrid minivan Prius can become the first car by Toyota which will be equipped li-ionic by the accumulator of own working out. The car will be equipped by three rows of seats and sliding doors. Potentially Toyota Prius can contain to seven persons and it will be positioned in the car market, as the family car.

Toyota Prius 2010: Smart Key

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Nissan publishes the 1st Quest photo

The minivan will go on sale in the beginning of the next year and will try to press the Japanese competitors: Toyota Sienna and Honda Odyssey.

New Quest

Short message Nissan Motor in which the company declares fast end of preparation of new generation of minivan Quest became a real surprise.

Whether it will be possible new Quest to change malevolent image of the predecessor and to break an alignment of forces in a segment of minivans, it becomes already clear next year. It will be uneasy, after all on the market in the near future there is new generation Honda Odyssey — the most sold in the USA a minivein and one of unconditional leaders of a segment.

Minivan Nissan Quest

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2010 Mazda6: sedan, hatchback, universal

The debut of updated family Mazda6 (sedan, hatchback and universal) can already take place in the beginning of March on a motor show in Geneva.

Restyling Mazda6

Photos of the future novelty have been published at a forum specialising in "espionage" pictures. Judging by these illustrations, restyling Mazda6 will receive a new forward bumper with others an air inlet, a radiator lattice, and also new headlights of head light. Besides, the novelty will have new lateral mirrors and modifed back lanterns.

Most likely, some changes will occur and in interior Mazda6, however this information is not confirmed yet.

Debut of minivan Mazda5

Earlier it was informed, that in the same place — in Geneva — the world debut of minivan Mazda5 of new generation which will differ from the predecessor absolutely new design of a body and essentially modernised interior will take place. Besides, Mazda5 will receive the new two-litre petrol motor with direct injection and system "Start/Stop".

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Honda will show: Insight, Freed & Life

Honda Motor has promulgated data about own exposition within the limits of the Tokyo motor show devoted to tuning.

Hybrid Honda Insight

Founders give the greatest attention to hybrid Honda Insight finished by means of tuning complete sets Modulo. Appearance of the car became much more aggressive, thanking new to bumpers with sharp corners, a lattice of a radiator, light-emitting diode optics. Back lanterns became transparent, the standard framework from red plastic is replaced on painted in colour of a body, on back racks there were the original fins, called to give to the car aerodynamism there is more.

Thus the company once again reminds, that Insight is extremely harmless car — this idea is traced through all exposition of the company at an exhibition.

Minivan Honda Freed

The second car represented Honda, becomes minivan Freed. The car body is painted in bright purple colour, and the salon is executed in a contrast combination white and black. Armchairs are sheathed by a natural skin. The idea of founders consists in attraction of attention from women — bright colour of a body, the contrast salon and a decor should it promote.

Compact car Honda Life

The third car the most compact on the dimensions, but not on value for a lineup — Honda Life. To this car developers have tried to give as much as possible cheerful mood, having painted a body in bright yellow colour and having pasted over the car set of decorative stickers. In salon Life there was a dark blue illumination of the bottom part, that, according to authors, is successfully combined in primary colour of a body and the yellow plastic partially applied in furnish of salon.

All three cars will be presented to the Japanese public to the nearest by days off.

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Honda Odyssey + BMW 3-Series

The imagination of the Japanese fans of tuning has been directed this time on a minivan for home market which has found lines of appearance of a German sedan.

BMW + Odyssey

Court on everything, "native" forward part Honda Odyssey has seemed to the owner insufficiently expressively, there have been therefore begun searches of the donor for change. In a role of that has acted BMW 3-Series in body E92. It is possible to judge result on the presented photos, and at the same time to notice and other completions to which the family minivan has undergone.

Honda Odyssey (minivan)

Disorder of wheels differs simply monstrous negative value, wide tyres on expensive carbon disks supplement a picture.

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Tuning package for Honda Stepwgn

Tuning studio Mugen will make for the Japanese car market a tuning package for Honda Stepwgn of new generation.

Tuning version Honda Stepwgn

To buyers will offer six various complete sets of accessories. The car is equipped with the 2-l engine with system i-VTEC, power of 110 kw (150HP), the twisting moment — 193Nm, and also a variator with the hydrotransformer. At smooth driving the fuel expense makes 7 l/100 km.

Honda Stepwgn: commercial

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Honda Odyssey can withdraw because of brakes

The US national administration of safety of traffic (NHTSA) has received some hundreds complaints from consumers on brake system of minivan Honda Odyssey, because of malfunction of brakes of this model in the country happens ten road accidents.

Minivan Honda Odyssey

But while experts do not dare to assert officially, that the car is unsafe. Since May of current year drivers began to complain, that sometimes the brake pedal suddenly becomes soft, and operation of brakes is late, and the car cannot stop. Probably, air gets to the closed contours of brake system.

Experts of NHTSA declare a high probability of a response of cars. Under suspicion there were more than 343,000 cars 2006-08 of release.

Official release: 2010 Honda Odyssey

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Nissan has presented in Geneva a minivan NV200

Within the limits of 79th international motor show in Geneva the Japanese automobile concern Nissan has presented for the first time family updating spacious minivan NV200. The new model will be made at several factories worldwide: in Japan manufacture start is planned for spring of 2009, in Europe — on second half of 2009, later manufacture in China and some other countries also will be started.

NV200 — new minivan by Nissan

For European car market NV200 it will be made at factory Nissan in Barcelona. In spite of the fact that the total length of model NV200 is little bit less 4,4 m, the length of a cargo part of a van exceeds 2 m (2040 mm). It also can be increased to 2,8 m if to combine a forward seat that will allow to transport lengthy subjects.

The seven-seater car is accessible with two types of engines — petrol and diesel, and the diesel engine has two updatings. The petrol version is delivered with the motor in volume of 1,6 l which is used also in models Micra, Note and Qashqai. 16-klapannyj the unit develops power in 108 h.p. And the twisting moment of 153 Nanometers also is delivered with a 5-step mechanical transmission. The base diesel engine completed also on model Note and Micra, represents 8-cylinder diesel unit Renault 1.5 dCi (K9K) power of 86 h.p. And with the twisting moment equal of 200 Nanometers.

The following equipment can be included in complete set NV200: an intellectual key, electric lifts of glasses and system ESP. The safety equipment in a standard complete set includes antiblocking system of brakes (ABS) with help system at emergency braking (BA) and electronic system of distribution of brake effort (EBD). The pillow of safety of the driver also enters into a base complete set, and additional pillows of safety for passengers are completed on a choice.

2009 Nissan NV200

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