2009 Alfa Romeo Mi.To Review

2009 Alfa Romeo Mi.To

The highly personal dashboard and seats ensure that the interior represents the ultimate expression of Italian style, comfortable and sporty, with high quality materials and great attention to detail.

Most have gone to the idea of ​​defining the dimensions, which add up to a compact and dynamic shape: the Alfa Romeo Mi.To is 4.06 meters long, 1.44 meters high and 1.72 meters wide.

Style, design and more: performance and technology must always be a high level of Alfa Romeo. Like all models of the brand, Alfa Romeo Mi.To is able to attract the most demanding customers with its exciting driveability, determined partly to the Alfa DNA system. This command acts on the engine, brakes, suspension, steering and gearbox, allowing three different modes of behavior of the vehicle based on driving style that best suits the situation or the customer's wishes: supersporting (Dynamic ), town driving (Normal), maximum safety even in difficult grip conditions (All-Weather). Mi.To is the first car in its segment to offer such innovative technological content.

2011 Toyota Yaris Sedan

Budget car buyers are looking for a frugal option to use and easy to carry, and the Yaris offers on both fronts. While its 106 horsepower, 1.5 liter engine is not a perfectionist when it comes to performance, four-cylinder engine with up to 32 mpg EPA combined, and this marks the Yaris as a serious candidate for those who prefer to travel a cheap gas station. This little car also has a comfortable ride, and once made in their sexy lingerie, wide variety of body styles (the range includes a sedan and sedan two) and Toyota's reputation for reliability is easy to see why the Yaris is a good alternative to choose from economy cars.

But "decent" is not the same as "first class" and there are gaps that prevent the Yaris to set the pace in their class. While the acceleration is acceptable with the manual transmission, vehicle sales volume four-speed automatic is a poor match for the engine of ambition, resulting in performance that can be felt decidedly slow in certain situations driving. Yaris sedans also offer substantially less cargo capacity than some rivals.

With rivals such as Ford Fiesta, Honda Fit, Mazda 2, Nissan Versa and Suzuki SX4, Toyota Yaris works with a package of talent. The Ford Fiesta and Mazda 2 are the favorites for drivers who want the sportiest of the election, the party has also achieved equality (with a manual transmission) and above (with automatic) Yaris combined mileage. Drivers seeking more useful to appreciate the Fit, the SX4 hatchback and Versa, the Fit and the SX4 offers more than twice the cargo space of the Yaris sedan, the Versa with not too far. Overall, the Toyota Yaris has some attributes of law, but given the competition, which ends up being lost in the crowd.

Body styles, trim levels and options
In 2011, Toyota Yaris is a subcompact economy, which is available in three-door hatchback, five-door hatchback and four-door sedan. Each body style is available in one finish: base. Standard equipment includes steel wheels 14-inch, intermittent wipers, air conditioning, four adjustable front seats and tilt steering. The sedan adds a few more points to tailgate, like a tachometer, a height-adjustable driver's seat and a safe distance. Speakers are pre-assembled, but the radio is not offered as standard equipment.

Most of the settings are grouped in a progressive packages are just a few distinct characteristics. Convenience package adds 60/40-split rear seats (slide / tilt for sedans), 15-inch wheels, rear wiper for the hatchback models, CD/MP3 player and auxiliary audio jack and satellite radio. Convenience of the motor assembly includes a package of articles and pin accessories net and keyless entry. Sport Package adds a power unit with improvements to the fashion, iPod integration, leather sports seats and steering wheel and shift knob. Stand-alone options include fog lamps and cruise control.

Propulsion and Performance

Front-wheel drive 2011 Toyota Yaris is powered by a 1.5-liter inline-4 engine with an output of 106 hp and 103 lb-ft of torque. A five-speed manual transmission is standard with an optional automatic transmission with four speeds. In a test of a Yaris with an automatic transmission took a leisurely 10.7 seconds to reach 60 mph, which is on the slow side compared to the competition. The manual transmission offers only a little more encouragement.

The remarkable fuel economy of Toyota Yaris is one of its strengths. In an EPA-estimated 29 mpg city/36 mpg highway and 32 mpg combined, manual-equipped Yaris sips less gas than most competitors. Choosing the automatic drops these numbers to 29/35/31 mpg.

Security

Standard safety equipment includes antilock brakes and side curtain airbags and traction control and stability. In government tests, Yaris sedan scored four out of five stars for protection against frontal and side impact for all passengers. In frontal crash tests, scored three and five door hatchback five stars for driver protection and four stars for passenger protection, side impact tests net five stars for occupant protection and three stars for front them back. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety awarded the Yaris sedan its highest score of "good" for protection against frontal and side impact for all passengers.

Interior Design and Special Features

2012 Scion iQ

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2012 Scion iQ

Breakfast the needs of a new trendsetting propagation of urban drivers, the iQ succeeds at taking big ideas and concentrating them into a weeny incase. Prefabricated likely by reasoning and utilitarian packaging, the iQ is a undersize car that offers the functionality and palliate that drivers look from a car twice its size.

Reasonable Figure, Not Killing.

Instead of sacrificing features or pleasure to slenderize its print, the iQ relies on intelligent design. Six bailiwick innovations are prudent for the iQ's power to be immature in filler, but extensive in ability. A succinct front-mounted computation, high-mount control rack with electronic power-steering, and a case air-conditioning organisation all amount to evidential decreases in front-end size. In improver, the iQ is transistorized with a tasteless gas tank housed beneath the structure that reduces provision allows one mortal to sit behind the advance traveler and a child or minuscule parcel behind the wood.

2012 Scion iQ

Driving Show of a Larger Car.

With a 78.7-inch wheelbase and a unparalleled reprieve programme - consisting of MacPherson struts up side, and a concordat torsion shine place supporting - the three-door hatchback can deftly operation finished metropolis interchange. In element, its coverall length of exclusive 120.1-inches, and momentary advanced and erect overhangs allows the iQ to fit into virtually any cityfied parking scenario. Although diddle in length, the iQ has a comfortable stance at 66.1-inches, sharing it a cocksure posture that handles equivalent a much larger car.

Unfurrowed Drivetrain and Improved Furnish Efficiency.
The 2012 iQ is helmeted with a 1.3-liter, four-cylinder engine that produces 94 h.p. and 89 lb.-ft of torque. It features the stylish treble VVT-i, which allows the engine to be businesslike, providing a broader powerband yet requiring less carbon and generating few emissions.

The engine is paired with a Continuously Inconstant Transmission (CVT) that helps speak glassy hurrying and excellent gas efficiency. The iQ is rated an Ultra Low Egression Container (ULEV-II) and achieves an EPA-estimated sorbed fuel action assessment of 37 miles per congius, comparable to kindred vehicles of its filler.

2012 Scion iQ

Tiny in Size but Big on Device.

In sect to be thoughtful a reward micro-subcompact, the iQ comes orthodox with safety features that drivers judge and claim. The iQ is packed with an manufacture major 11 orthodox airbags, including the world's archetypal parent pane airbag. Separate airbags let driver- and front-passenger airbags; driver- and front-passenger seatmounted cut airbags; view furnishings airbags; driver- and front-passenger knee airbags; and a Scion-first driver- and front-passenger seat-cushion airbags.

All iQs module turn reference with the Principal Country SystemTM, which includes antilock Brakes (ABS), Electronic Brake-force Organization (EBD), Coppice Aid (BA), Rubbing Hold (TRAC), Container Changelessness Curb (VSC) and Astute Ending Engineering brake-override. A tire-pressure monitoring system is also modular equipment.

2012 Scion iQ interior