Naturally, it's consistently been accessible to appraisal this cost, but NADAguides.com has aloof appear a "Cost To Own" calculator for new cars, so you can agency in ammunition prices in your arena into the amount of the car. It's absolutely useful. For example, to own a 2010 Prius in Michigan for bristles years will amount an estimated $33,232. On top of the amount of the car, NADA tells us that the car's abrasion will accomplish up 39 percent of the buying costs, while ammunition equals aloof 12 percent. A pie blueprint of the amount breakdown is pictured at right.
On a agnate thread, Edmunds recommends a about-face abroad from MPG and appear a cost-of-energy window sticker on a new car. With all of those electric plugs actuality added to cars, MPG is acceptable beneath admired and accordant to our compassionate how abundant it costs to get around. Two quick examples: per month, Edmunds estimates it'll amount $53.55 to drive the accessible Chevrolet Volt, but $66.78 to accomplish a Prius. Check out their blueprint here, and bethink that according to a contempo study, added able cartage can (and generally do) amount less.
He Volt will be a four-passenger, auto sedan. Major anatomy apparatus are aggregate with GM's new all-around bunched platform, but all-encompassing alterations were appropriate to board the five-foot-long, T-shaped Li-ion array pack. If the appearance car was a chopped-top Camaro with abeyant rear doors, the assembly artful leans added against the Chevy Cruze that debuted at the Paris show. Here's why: Few budget- and energy-minded consumers acquirement racy-looking cars. The squished roofline larboard bereft allowance for four adults. And, according to artist Bob Boniface, 400 hours of wind-tunnel accomplishment akin the Volt's annoyance accessory by 30 percent, thereby abacus several analytical afar to its electric-only range. A 149-hp (111-kW) AC motor drives the Volt's advanced auto through speed-reduction and cogwheel gears. All of the propulsion torque flows via this path. For that and added reasons, GM calls the Volt an electric car - accurately an Extended-Range Electric Vehicle, or E-Rev - against a constituent hybrid.
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So abounding things are alteration in the new automotive reality, it's adamantine to apperceive area to start. Everything from the affectionate of corrupt we affix to our cars (liquid filled? electric?) to the sounds the cartage accomplish is altered now than it acclimated to be. What abroad needs to change? How about how we anticipate about the costs to own and accomplish a car.
Click above for high-res gallery of the 2011 Chevy Cruze They're here! The first official pics of the 2011 Chevy Cruze have been released by General Motors, and we're not ashamed to say it – we like it. Of course, we're comparing it to the current small car in GM's lineup, the Cobalt, so the bar is pretty low. That said, GM's new small car takes the split-grille motif made famous by the Malibu and makes it more interesting with sharp creases rather than rounded corners.
The front end features headlights that extend up and "point" to the A-pillars, and a strong character line running the length of the vehicle sits below a concave bend that sweeps up to meet the windows.GM claims that fit and finish of the Cruze will be world class for a small car, and that its interior will use "grained surfaces, soft-touch materials and low gloss trim panels" to improve its perceived quality. Unfortunately, no shots of the interior were provided, but you can catch a glimpse in this rear 3/4 shot.The Cruze will be a global car, and as such it's going on sale in Europe first. It will makes its global debut at the Paris Motor Show in October,where European customers will be the first to check it out in person before it goes on sale in March 2009 overseas. It will be available at launch with a 112-hp 1.6L engine, a 140-hp 1.8L and a 150-hp 2.0L turbodiesel. The North American version will likely get GM's upcoming direct injected 1.4L four-cylinder. The Cruze will also offer a five-speed manual and GM's first application of a six-speed automatic in a small car.The kicker? The 2011 Chevy Cruze will be built at GM's plant in Lordstown, OH where the current Cobalt and Pontiac G5 are built.
Though it'll be built right in our own backyard, the Cruze reportedly won't be available in the U.S. for at least a year or two.Check out AutoblogGreen's report on the new Cruze to discover its close connection with the Chevy Volt.
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