by Stu Wright The new, bigger, Toyota Prius V (vee) was introduced in our country in October of 2011. It was designed as a station wagon/multi-purpose vehicle to complement the Prius lineup. The Prius has been around since 1997 and is America’s number one selling hybrid. In fact, it accounted for almost 51% [...]
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by Stu Wright Infiniti is the luxury automobile division of Nissan Motor Company, and has been selling cars and light trucks in North America since 1989. The history of the company goes all the way back to 1914, when the first “Datsun” was produced in Tokyo. The Datsun [...]
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By Stu Wright Lexus automobiles have been shipped to the United States since 1989. The company is a division of Toyota and is in fact headquartered in Toyota City, Japan. They initially shipped the highly successful LS-400 to our shores and it was a pretty good seller right off the bat. The nomenclature is [...]
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2011 Nissan Murano By Stu Wright Nissan Motors likes to call their Murano, which is named after a region in Italy, the “Premium Crafted Crossover”. Last week I had the pleasure of driving one both in Greeley and around Denver, and would tend to agree with their characterization of this car. My first drive was [...]
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The Scion xB By Stu Wright Toyota Motor Corporation decided in the late 90’s that they had a desire to market more vehicles to young Americans, and thus started a division called Scion. Scion means “descendant”, and the goal was to create a new car within a car company, and the original models put [...]
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