Edmunds.com organizes best-used car awards and the judgment will be based on the following criteria: reliability, safety and availability. Following car models won the used car best bet awards in 2009. Hyundai Elantra It was awarded as best compact Sedan. It offers peppy performance, smooth ride, solid build quality, reliability and operating economy. With all these it also includes standard leather seating, moon roof, sport-tuned suspension for improved the car handling and higher fuel efficiency. Toyota Camry Camry is a best mid size sedan model. This is equipped with 268-horsepower…
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Features Of Hybrid Cars
Hybridization of cars can be mild and full and even depends on different drivetrains (components between the engine and driving wheels, also clutch and axle, and components of the driveline). Features of Hybrid cars are: Idle-Off: This feature makes the vehicle to shut down its gasoline engine when vehicle is stopped, which saves fuel. In a well-planned system, the engine will turn on and be able to go in very less time (less than time taken to move foot from the brake to the gas pedal). Regenerative Braking: In a…
Read MoreDifferent Types of Hybrid Cars
Hybrid cars are eco-friendly cars. Hybrid car will get power with two sources. In addition, it contains electric engine and gas engine. Hybrid cars reduce the pollution by low emission as gas engine work less in hybrid cars. The different types of hybrid cars are: 1. Series hybrid car: This type of hybrid car contains both gasoline engine and electric engine. The car will be started and stopped by gasoline engine. Once car get started to certain speed, the electric engine automatically switches on. 2. Parallel hybrid car: The parallel…
Read MoreThe Bluetooth In Cars For Safe Driving
After the induction of affordable mobile phones in the tech market, many changes have occurred in communications of the people. However, the improper usage of this technology has many times proved to be fatal. One of these violations is talking in mobiles while driving. The Bluetooth technology can at least free our hands from handling the additional responsibility of holding a sensible piece of mobile set while still driving. If you cannot stop yourself from talking in mobiles while driving – you can at least buy a Bluetooth kit. Some…
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