Toyota’s Winning Trio in Canadian Car of the Year Awards
Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC) members pick Camry LE, Camry Hybrid and RAV4 as category winners for the 2007 Canadian Car of the Year. Toyota Trio were given the top honors. Toyota Camry LE won in the Best New Family Car, Toyota Camry Hybrid, in the Best New Family Car, and Toyota RAV4 V6 Sport in the Best New SUV/CUV category.
“Toyota is very happy to accept these awards and on behalf of everyone at Toyota in Canada, I’d like to thank AJAC’s members for these honors,” said Stephen Beatty, Managing Director at Toyota Canada Inc. “The Toyota Camry is North America’s most popular passenger car. The Toyota Camry Hybrid represents an important evolution of gasoline-electric hybrid technology in the second most popular market segment in Canada. And the redesigned Toyota RAV4 will be manufactured in Woodstock, Ontario when our new assembly plant, currently under construction, begins production in 2008.”
Toyota Camry, a midsize car built in Georgetown, Kentucky plant, is the best-selling car in the United States for 8 of the last 9 years starting in 1997. Now in its sixth generation, auto parts for Toyota Camry have been notably redesigned though the length of the car remained unchanged. Kentucky plant produces approximately 45,000 Camrys annually.
What is So Special About the Car Exhaust System
A vehicle’s exhaust system is generally overlooked by the common car buyer as just a pipe that comes out the back of one’s vehicle. That is true (for most vehicles) but very, very vague and gives the exhaust system a reputation of being somewhat useless.
You see, the primary purpose of the exhaust system is to carry away the engine’s exhaust so it does not cause the engine to misfire for lack of air and to keep harmful gases away from human occupants that are susceptible pass out from their chemical composition. In most vehicles an exhaust manifold collects the fumes and allows them to flow through metal tubing to the end of the vehicle. However this method of removing the exhaust is very inefficient as an engine’s cylinders fire at different times which causes there to be an uneven flow in the exhaust system which can severely reduce a car’s true performance capabilities.
A good solution to this problem (assuming you’re concerned about maximum performance and efficiency in your vehicle) is using headers. Headers are another type of exhaust manifold, but instead of being cheap and easy to make, they are quite larger, more expensive, and are different for each vehicle. The purpose of the header is to direct the exhaust away from the engine evenly as each header pipe is the same length and general shape as all the others. This allows the exhaust to flow quickly out the pipe and not back to the engine. After-market accessory companies make headers that are specially built for specific types of vehicle to increase power considerably while giving the exhaust an audibly pleasing noise.
