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Five Star FG Falcon at Jarvis Ford
The all-new FG Falcon has become the first Australian-built car to receive a 5 (five) star rating from the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP). The petrol FG Falcon sedan range was awarded the maximum 5 (five) star safety rating rating with a total score of 34.6 points (out of a possible 37 points), giving it the highest score ever recorded by a locally produced car in Australia by a significant margin. Read more>
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Toyota iQ wins car of the year... in Japan |
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14/11/2008
The revolutionary Toyota iQ, the world's smallest four-seater passenger car, has won the 2008 Japan Car of the Year award by a landslide over rivals such as the Citroën C5, Audi A4 and Jaguar XF.
The innovative iQ scored more than double the points of the second placed, receiving top marks from 39 of the 65 jurors who voted.
The judges praised the iQ for its space efficiency and design, particularly the iQ's capacity for seating four people within a body less than three metres long, as well as its combination of high levels of safety and low CO2 emissions.
But this incredible result will not be repeated in the 2008 European Car of the Year.
The reason is that sales in Europe do not start until January 2009, past the cut-off for the European COTY for this year.
Both Japanese and European COTY competitions are run in similar ways with a wide selection of new cars appraised and voted on by motoring journalists.
In Japan COTY each of the 65 jurors has 25 points, of which 10 have to be given to one car, and the remaining 15 points allocated to four other cars.
Results of Japan Car of the Year 2008
1. Toyota iQ 526 points
2. Citroën C5 223 points
3. Nissan GT-R 201 points
4. Audi A4/A4 Avant 180 points
5. Jaguar XF 115 points
6. Daihatsu Tanto 100 points
7. Fiat 500 90 points
8. Honda Freed 62 points
9. Mazda Atenza 60 points
10. Suzuki Wagon R/Wagon R Stingray 37 points
11. Subaru Exiga 31 points |
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Toyota first to export 100,000 cars |
19/12/2008
Toyota Australia is set to become the first Australian carmaker to export 100,000 vehicles in a calendar year.
The milestone car is due to be shipped from Melbourne on Christmas Eve, bound for the Middle East.
It will be among more than 2,100 Australian-built Toyota cars leaving Australia that day aboard the Positive Leader. |
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