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Toyota announced this morning that they have a fix in place for the 2.3 million vehicles affected by their recent sticky gas pedal recall. The company says dealers are receiving training on how to fix the pedals and new parts are being shipped to dealers immediately.

Toyota calls the remedy “a solution that involves reinforcing the pedal assembly in a manner [that] eliminates the excess friction that has caused the pedals to stick in rare instances.”

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Ford F150 Raptor can transform almost anyone into an action hero. It’s muscle and power and tough and beautiful. It’s in your face like a bouncer at closing time, and it’s meaner than a drill sergeant during the first week of boot camp. But when you end up on a dirt trail, this truck rewards you with absolute horrifying fun.

You don’t take this truck to work, you take it to war. Work is just there so you can afford a good stockpile.

This is the kind of turn-key performance off-road beast built to fly over bumps and humps and stumps, while shooting zombies out the passenger window. Secretly, about half the people in the world want to be among the 1 percent of the population to survive a nuclear blast, meteor strike or deadly virus. Ask any guy.

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Toyota’s president apologized Friday for the massive global recalls over sticking gas pedals as the automaker scrambles to repair a damaged reputation and sliding sales.

But Akio Toyoda, appointed to the top job at Toyota Motor Corp. last June, said the company is still deciding what steps to take to fix brake problems in the popular Prius gas-electric hybrid.

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Maruti Suzuki, which still commands the lion’s share of India’s small-car market, is developing more models to further strengthen its position.

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The New Camry is dearly priced in the range of Rs 21.26-23.40 lakh and would be available in four grades, officials of Toyota’s Indian unit, Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM), told a news conference here.

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Suzuki Kizashi is based on the Concept Kizashi of 2007 and initially will feature a 2.4-litre DOHC inline four-cylinder engine. It is still undecided whether the car will make it to Europe, with Suzuki currently concentrating on the US market

The unit is linked to a six-speed manual transmission or a continuously variable transmission (CVT) with paddle shift.

Suzuki has confirmed that a hybrid will join the line-up at some point. Both two and four-wheel drive will be available.

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When it debuted in March, Honda Motor Corp.’s retooled Insight hybrid looked to be the first serious challenger to the Prius, Toyota Motor Corp.’s ecological wunder-car. Graced with a low price, 40-mpg-plus fuel economy and the Japanese automaker’s reputation for quality, the Insight even looked like the Prius.

Instead, all the Insight has delivered is a flurry of bad reviews and four months of dismal sales capped by a thorough battering at the hands of the Prius, whose third generation was launched in the U.S. last month. Increasingly, the Insight is looking like the latest in a series of hybrid frustrations for Honda.

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The Honda Civic sold in Europe is a very different beast to the mundane version sold here in the United States, and in some guises is even pitched as a performance model. The car is aggressively styled and comes with a space-age look that really makes it stand out from the crowd.

Hot-hatch fans across the pond can already order it in Type-R spec, which sees it fitted with a punchy 2.0-liter VTEC four-cylinder engine rated at 198hp and 142lb-ft of torque, but soon they will be able to order an even more potent Mugen-enhanced version. For the uninitiated, Mugen is Honda’s official in-house tuner and performance accessories division and has close ties with the automaker’s racing efforts.

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Bentley’s Continental GTC Speed is its fastest convertible yet. And the introduction of its Speed version, distinguished by a 15% increase in torque, is expected to account for two-thirds of the GTC’s sales worldwide.

Bentley chief executive Dr Franz-Josef Paefgen said the addition of the GTC Speed “broadens the appeal of the GTC to customers who demand a more focused, open-top driving experience”.

An average buyer is going to have money to burn. At £153,400, it’s not a hasty purchase.

But the Bentley Continental GTC Speed still holds the status that all Bentleys have, but it will also please performance-seekers, too. It has 600bhp and reaches 200mph with the roof up. With the roof down its top speed is 195mph.

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Automotive: “The 4-Door Sports Car” says Nissan’s tag line for the new Maxima. They’ve used that line for the last four generations of this mid-size sedan, now in its seventh iteration since 1981. That may be a bit of a stretch semantically but the Maxima is sportier than many of its competitors.

Historically, the Smyrna, Tennessee-built Nissan Maxima has projected more style and panache than most of its rivals. There was even a version with extra cladding and trim in one of the earliest generations that made it look, if not necessarily perform, like a real sport sedan. Since then I’ve always looked for Maxima to be something a bit special.

And, look special this one does - from the stylish, squinty headlight assemblies and Z-Car-like grille to the broad-shouldered flank to the bobbed tail featuring large, sloping taillights and a modest wing.

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