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Author: Angelina Soul

  • Toyota Estima: A reliable MPV that serves its passenger until heaven

    Okay, we have no intention to frighten you not to buy this car. We are going to review the Toyota Estima based on it’s performance, features, outlook, engine, and talk about what isn’t so good about this car as well as it’s competitor.

    Toyota Estima or more commonly known as Toyota Previa in the US or Toyota Tarago in Australia was an MPV introduced in 1990 by Toyota. Within 21 years of time frame, the car received a total number of three generations until today. First generation was from 1990 to 2000, second generation was from 2000 to 2006, and third generation was from 2006 until today.

    We would really like to say this is a very spacious and roomy car otherwise the Nirvana Memorial group will not pick this as one of the main car to deliver corpse in coffin or casket. The average length of a standard casket is about 84 inches long, 28 inches wide and 23 inches tall. So we say the Toyota Estima is really spacious.

    What about the outlook? Big, spacious, and gorgeous. In 2009, the car received a new facelift. The front look of the car is slanting. It looks like the elephantnose fish where it has a long chin but it is nice.

    What about the features? A car that is so spacious will be hard to drive without some special features. The Estima feature an automatic parallel and back-in parking, where drivers can easily get the car park with the control panel. The second row is fitted with automatic footrest and third row seats are power-fold.

    What about the engine? The latest Estima is available in 2.4 L or 3.5 L. 3.5 L has enough torque and you will undeniably enjoy the driving. However, most of the people who purchased an Estima is prepare to have a chauffeur isn’t? The Toyota Estima is also available in hybrid version where you can buy it from Naza for RM 268,000.

    What isn’t so good about this car? Such a huge car with the curb weight at 1,845 kg without any passenger, consumer who owns the 2.4 L always claims that the car is lack of torque.

    Toyota Estima’s competitor or similar car: Toyota Sienna, Seat Alhambra, Peugeot 5008, Citroen C3 Picasso, Volkswagen Sharan, Dodge Caravan, Honda Odyssey, and Ford S-Max.

    As one of the best selling MPV in the market, there are more than 1000 units of used Toyota Estima available for sale at most of the time. In conclusion, the reliability, endurance, and maintenance of this car are without a doubt gets a good score. Otherwise Nirvana Memorial group will not choose this car as the main car to give their customer the last ride to the heaven.

  • A man wins a Lamborghini Murcielago and wrecked it after hours

    Remember that few days ago we asked “What are you planning to do if you own a Lamborghini Murcielago?” In just few days we got another answer from an Utahan, the answer is “I will crash it!”

    The Utahan, David Dopp, is truck driver and is also a father of six. He won a 650-hp lime green Lamborghini Murcielago on Saturday from a giveaway sponsored by Mavrick gas stations and teamgive.org. It was suppose to be a thanksgiving present but he wrecked it just after hours since he gets the key of a 650-hp exotic car.

    As usual, when one get a huge lucky present like what Dopp gets, the neighborhood is going to celebrate with a convoy run with him in the exotic. Imagine that Dopp gets into a 650 hp from what he used to have. He may get a little bit excited with the power the car delivers. Dopp lost control during the ride. The car went over a curb and hopping off the road and stay 75 feet into the field. Luckily Dopp has a full insurance coverage otherwise he may have to pay a huge amount for the repair although the cost is still unknown.

    A report says that the car bumper has been damaged, oil pan has been broken, but both passengers in the car are safe. One official says the accident was speed related but Dopp keep saying he hit a patch of black ice or gravel.

    “Yeah, I got it on Saturday and I wrecked it on Saturday,” Dopp said, “We were coming up a hill, going around a corner; and as soon as we came up the hill, we either hit some black ice or loose gravel or something, and all of a sudden we just started spinning,” said the Lucky Winner.

    The lucky winner describe the day as “An emotional roller coaster”. Drift King Keiichi Tsuchiya used to say, “What is power without control? It’s not all power boy!” Don’t believe what Keiichi says? You can see the 1.2 million Bugatti Veyron crashes into lake because of “angry birds”.

    Although this is a Lamborghini, it isn’t the most expensive car crashes of the year of 2011 compared to the recent exotic car crashes in Japan.

  • Eleven most famous car brands slipped into the top 100 brands of 2011

    Few more days we going to say good bye to the year of 2011 and welcome 2012. Again, it is time to look back what we did and plan for what we are going to do. This year, the top ten most famous car brands including Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Honda, Volkswagen, Ford, Audi, Hyundai, Porsche, Nissan, and Ferrari have slipped into the top 100 brands of 2011 with the total brand value of 138.7 billion. (more…)

  • Saab threw white towel into the ring and says good bye

    Saab Automobile has finally threw white towel into the ring and declared itself bankrupt on Monday. The Swedish car maker stopped making cars since April due to lack of funds. The company forced to say good bye after the former owner GM blocked their last rescue plan by Chinese investor Zhejiang Youngman Lotus Automobile.

    Saab is one remarkable car maker that well-known for its innovation, green technology, safety, and turbo-charging system in the automobile industry. The company was founded in 1937 and it has been always making notable cars for 64 years in the industry including the Saab 93B, Saab 900, and the most recent Saab 9-3 and Saab 9-5. However, their car sales don’t really went good and the total production of Saab cars in 2010 is less than 50,000 units. This has because the company suffers for money in first quarter of 2011. Many rescues were attempts to the company and the last one was Zhejiang Youngman who intends to buy 54% of Saab for 245 million euro.

    It’s really sad to see such a good car brand was killed by GM indirectly after the Saturn. For whoever own Saab cars, you may keep it nicely in the garage as it will be a piece of history in the future.

  • What are you planning to do if you own a Lamborghini Murcielago?

    What are you planning to do if you have a 650 hp Lamborghini Murcielago falls into your hand? I believe most of the people will love it, kiss it, polish it, park the car as close as to their bed and have a peep every 20 minutes to see if the car still there.

    However, not everything thinks the same. Far East in theAsiathere is a company called PHKOSUGI tried to promote their LED lights and turn the car into Troncielago. They fitted the car with a new Aventador look-a-like body kit and the entire car was light-up. LED lights were added from car hood to air vent to door surrounding to underneath. Do you believe that 650 hp could be ruined with some cheap LED lights?

    What even funny is the company made the video and try to advertise to some other exotic owners that they can actually turn exotic cars into Tron car. Something like Ferrari Tronfiorano, Trontalia 458, or Lamborghini Tronventador.

    Lamborghini only built 4099 Murcielago in the 10 years time frame. One was killed here and now left 4098 surviving Murcielago on earth. Oh My Gosh! I know they like Backstreet Boys’ song “I want it that way”, ain’t nothing but a headache.