2009 Toyota Venza Crossover Starts at $25,975

Toyota unveiled the Venza crossover earlier this year, but since then we haven't heard much about Toyota's newest crossover.

Today Toyota officially announced the pricing for 2009 Venza that starts at $25,975 for the 2.7L four-cylinder, front wheel drive model. The top of the line 3.5L V6 with AWD goes for $29,250.

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Honda Insight Returns! Honda Unveils its Newest Hybrid

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2009 Subaru WRX Gets Bump in Horsepower to 265HP

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Toyota is Going to Cutback on Tundra and Sequoia Production Due to Slow Sales

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Toyota iQ Unveiled...Toyota's New Urban Car

Toyota unveiled the iQ Concept last September in Frankfurt and this week the automaker took the wraps off the production version of the small car.

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2009 Subaru Forester Spy Photos...We Now Have a Clearer View

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Nissan GT-R R35 Photos - Tuned by Garage Defend

Do you have a brand new stock Nissan GT-R on order, or maybe just took delivery? Then “Garage Defend” might have just what you need…specialized in Nissan Sportscars (and a couple others), this very professional dealer told Nihon Car about their latest “beast” based on the Almighty R35 GTR.

Would you trade a couple kilometers per hour in top speed for more braking and cornering stability? (I would!)
Garage Defend says yes and equipped this R35 with genuine DEFEND Carbon Canards on the front bumper but also a GT V-spec MASK (front carbon grill), VOLTEX GT wing, they lowered the car by a good 3 centimeters and also added a Blitz NUR-specF-Ti a muffler to complete the look.

The interior sees the standard seats replaced by a couple “Blood Red” BRIDE bucket seats for more response.

The engine remains in its standard form but with the additional downforce brought by the front bumper and rear wing, the Garage Defend GTR sure knows its way around any circuit.

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[Source: NihonCar.com, Defend.co.jp]

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First Test Drive: Nissan GT-R Video 0-60mph in 3.3 Seconds!

Holy shit, this is by far the sickest test drive video of 2008, many thanks to the owner in Japan who let Edmunds.com test drive his car on the AMI Airstrip in TOKYO!

The car in the video is a Japanese-spec example with 1,500 break-in kilometers. It’s owned by Japanese journalist Jun Nishikawa and packs the same hardware the U.S. car will get: a 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6 that generates at least 473 horsepower and 434 pound-feet of torque. It had the same six-speed dual-clutch automated manual gearbox and the same adjustable dampers.

The $70,000 USD 2009 Nissan GT-R is faster than the following speeding BULLETS

Dodge Viper
Corvette Z06
Porsche 911 Turbo

GT-R Launch Control - 8th Wonder of the World
Nissan Claims the 2009 GT-R does 0-60 in 3.5 seconds.
However activating Nissan’s technologically advanced, state of the art LAUNCH CONTROL can get this down to less than 3.3 SECONDS. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-DICULOUS!!!!!!!!!! To activate LAUNCH CONTROL you must switch the Transmission and Damping and VBC settings to R (which stands for RACE or REDICULOUS). Once it is activated, the driver can pin the BRAKE and throttle down while the computer magically prepares for LAUNCH @ 4500rpm. Sounds as fun as I would imagine preparing the Millennium Falcon to enter lightspeed!

According to Edmunds the “acceleration is crushing” and like no other production car they have ever tested”.

Braking
It requires 15-inch rotors, six-piston Brembo calipers and sticky Bridgestone Potenza RE070R rubber to bring a 3,836-pound GT-R to rest from 60 mph in only 104 feet. That’s only 1 foot longer than the Porsche 911 Turbo equipped with the $8,800 ceramic composite brake package. It’s also the same stopping distance as the last Dodge Viper they tested and 2 feet shorter than the Corvette Z06.

THE AWESOME 2009 Nissan GT-R Edmunds.com TEST DRIVE VIDEO!

How does the twin-turbo Nissan GT-R stack up against the Zonda F V12 ?
Here is video that perfectly synchronizes both cars going around the Nurburing.

[Source: YouTube.com / Edmunds.com]

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2008 Nissan Maxima Starts at $28,120

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