Toyota’s latest super-efficient car that was launched late last year, Aqua or known as Prius c, seems to really make a Japanese craze. Within 1 month, Aqua ready to crowd every city street corner in Japan. No half-hearted as many as 120 thousand units of the hybrid cars had been ordered by Japanese citizens in a month. This means 10 times from the target sales of 12,000 units per month. In Japan, Toyota Aqua priced from 1.69 million yen.

Toyota Aqua has a length of 3.9 meters, equipped with two engines, the gasoline engine and electric motor. With a capacity of 4-cylinder engine reaches 1,500cc with 74 PS power at 4,800 rpm and 111 Nm of torque, and an electric motor that can shoot up to 45 kW (61PS) and torque of 169 Nm (125. Lb-ft). If both machines are combined so Aqua can run up to 100 PS (73kW or 98HP). Do not stop until there this vehicle is claimed to have a level of efficiency of 35 km/liter.

Circulating cars in Europe has been known for its high level of security. But if performed crash test, which are the most secure?

Euro NCAP institute, released a list of cars that get 5 star rating in crash testing. Following is the list as quoted from the official Euro NCAP website:

• Small 4×4 category: Audi Q3
• Supermini category: Chevrolet Aveo
• Family car category: Ford Focus
• MPV category: Mercedes B Class
• Large family car category: Volvo V60

Runner-up for each category of the above is the Chevrolet Malibu, Mercedes M Class, Toyota Yaris, Lexus CT200h, Opel Zafira Tourer, Hyundai ix20, and BMW X1.

For the pickup segment, Ford Ranger gets the title as the safest pickup and getting highest stars particularly in terms of protection to pedestrians when hit.

In the electric car segment, from 4 cars that were tested, Nissan LEAF is the first electric cars that get 5 stars rating.

Last year isn’t a good year for global automotive industry. The soaring oil price, natural disasters and the global economic crisis made many automotive manufacturers experienced bad times. Even the global car sales showed significant decrease. In this year of 2012, the global automotive industry is really optimistic that this year would be better for them. It could be read from how aggressive automotive manufacturers preparing new models for 2012 market.

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