Auto Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC) customers choose Camry LE, Camry Hybrid and RAV4 as category winners for the 2007 Canadian Automobile of the Yr. Toyota Trio have been provided the major honors. Toyota Camry LE won in the Ideal New Household Vehicle, Toyota Camry Hybrid, in the Greatest New Spouse and children Automobile, and Toyota RAV4 V6 Sport in the Very best New SUV/CUV group.
“Toyota is extremely happy to settle for these awards and on behalf of anyone at Toyota in Canada, I would like to thank AJAC’s users for these honors,” mentioned Stephen Beatty, Managing Director at Toyota Canada Inc. “The Toyota Camry is North America’s most popular passenger automobile. The Toyota Camry Hybrid represents an significant evolution of gasoline-electrical hybrid technologies in the 2nd most common market place segment in Canada. And the redesigned Toyota RAV4 will be produced in Woodstock, Ontario when our new assembly plant, presently less than building, starts creation in 2008.”
Toyota Camry, a midsize automobile designed in Georgetown, Kentucky plant, is the finest-advertising car or truck in the United States for 8 of the very last 9 many years setting up in 1997. Now in its sixth generation, car areas for Toyota Camry have been notably redesigned even though the size of the car remained unchanged. Kentucky plant makes somewhere around 45,000 Camrys each year.
Toyota Camry OEM parts boast features and design. The new Camry is also getting manufactured by Toyota Motor Company Australia. The new technology Camry in Australia went on sale very last August. Its product vary is composed of the Altise, Ateva, Sportivo and Grande.
This yr, Toyota produced a hybrid edition of Camry. It was introduced alongside with the redesigned Camry. The vehicle employs Hybrid Synergy Drive setup, which is equivalent to that of Prius, Highlander Hybrid and Lexus RX 400h. Camry Hybrid takes advantage of a 4-cylinder gasoline motor that is able of creating 192 horsepower. Typical characteristics of the Camry Hybrid incorporate knee airbags, aspect torso airbags and side-curtain airbags, remote entry and begin.
Toyota RAV4, on the other hand, is a compact crossover SUV which was appreciably redesigned for the 2006 design year. For now, Toyota RAV4 automobile elements are assembled in the automaker’s Tahara, Aichi, Japan assembly plant. On the other hand, the assembly is envisioned to be transferred in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada assembly plant when the latter comes on line.
“These three motor vehicles are very significant to Toyota’s eyesight of the potential of particular transportation in Canada,” Mr. Beatty ongoing. “Consequently, we’re happy that they have been picked by AJAC’s associates as the best in their respective classes.”
AJAC is an association composed of qualified journalists, writers and photographers who are liable for the coverage in Canada’s automobile field.