Toyota to Use Prius Hybrids to Supply Household Appliances with Electricity!

As they say, necessity is the mother of invention. In Japan’s case, the devastating earthquake in March and the subsequent damages to the country’s infrastructure put the spotlight on Toyota’s Estima Hybrid minivan that features a system allowing the supply of auxiliary electricity to power household appliances.

The minivan’s owners were extremely satisfied with the system, which effectively turns the hybrid system into an electric generator that runs on gasoline, claiming that it was invaluable during the extended blackouts in Japan.

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Toyota to Use Prius Hybrids to Supply Household Appliances with Electricity!

As they say, necessity is the mother of invention. In Japan’s case, the devastating earthquake in March and the subsequent damages to the country’s infrastructure put the spotlight on Toyota’s Estima Hybrid minivan that features a system allowing the supply of auxiliary electricity to power household appliances.

The minivan’s owners were extremely satisfied with the system, which effectively turns the hybrid system into an electric generator that runs on gasoline, claiming that it was invaluable during the extended blackouts in Japan.

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2012 Toyota Fortuner: SUV Version of Facelifted HiLux Makes Asian Debut

After last week’s presentation of the redesigned 2012 HiLux in Europe, Toyota went ahead and introduced the Asian market version of the pickup truck, called HiLux Vigo in Thailand, as well its SUV sibling, the seven-passenger Fortuner.

Both the HiLux Vigo and Fortuner sport the same styling revisions with their European counterpart including the new front end with the chromed out, razor edge grille, new alloy wheel options, and interior refinements such as the redesigned instrument panel plus trim and equipment updates.

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2012 Toyota Fortuner: SUV Version of Facelifted HiLux Makes Asian Debut

After last week’s presentation of the redesigned 2012 HiLux in Europe, Toyota went ahead and introduced the Asian market version of the pickup truck, called HiLux Vigo in Thailand, as well its SUV sibling, the seven-passenger Fortuner.

Both the HiLux Vigo and Fortuner sport the same styling revisions with their European counterpart including the new front end with the chromed out, razor edge grille, new alloy wheel options, and interior refinements such as the redesigned instrument panel plus trim and equipment updates.

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Über Rare Porsche 911 GT1 Straßenversion up for Grabs

It might not be the prettiest Porsche to look at, but the 911 GT1 Straßenversion is without doubt one of the most rare and radical street legal 911s ever to leave the Stuttgart firm’s factory.

You see, the 911 GT1 Straßenversion is the fully road-legal version of Porsche’s 1997 GT1 race car, While based on the 993, it features many modifications including a bespoke carbon-fiber body made to improve aerodynamics and lower the car's weight, and a detuned version of the competition model’s turbocharged flat-six engine delivering some 540 horses.

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Über Rare Porsche 911 GT1 Straßenversion up for Grabs

It might not be the prettiest Porsche to look at, but the 911 GT1 Straßenversion is without doubt one of the most rare and radical street legal 911s ever to leave the Stuttgart firm’s factory.

You see, the 911 GT1 Straßenversion is the fully road-legal version of Porsche’s 1997 GT1 race car, While based on the 993, it features many modifications including a bespoke carbon-fiber body made to improve aerodynamics and lower the car's weight, and a detuned version of the competition model’s turbocharged flat-six engine delivering some 540 horses.

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Rising Yen won’t Hurt Nissan’s Sales, says Ghosn

Nissan CEO, Carlos Ghosn, has predicted that Japan’s second biggest carmaker will achieve its sales targets, despite the yen’s 9.6% climb over the US dollar in the past year. However Ghosn admitted that the strength of the Yen may cause problems: “The high yen is definitely a headwind. What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing their motivation to maintain production in Japan”. Read more »

Rising Yen won’t Hurt Nissan’s Sales, says Ghosn

Nissan CEO, Carlos Ghosn, has predicted that Japan’s second biggest carmaker will achieve its sales targets, despite the yen’s 9.6% climb over the US dollar in the past year. However Ghosn admitted that the strength of the Yen may cause problems: “The high yen is definitely a headwind. What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing their motivation to maintain production in Japan”. Read more »

The Price of Parking: Colliers’ Releases Results of 2011 Global Survey

The results of Colliers International’s 2011 Parking Rate Survey are in for the U.S., Canada and the rest of the world, and there are few surprises.

The U.S. national median monthly parking rate is US$155.22, with the highest being midtown Manhattan at US$541 and Renoa at US$45 the cheapest. In Canada, Calgary topped out at US$486 followed by Toronto at $342 USD and Montreal at $305 USD.

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The Price of Parking: Colliers’ Releases Results of 2011 Global Survey

The results of Colliers International’s 2011 Parking Rate Survey are in for the U.S., Canada and the rest of the world, and there are few surprises.

The U.S. national median monthly parking rate is US$155.22, with the highest being midtown Manhattan at US$541 and Renoa at US$45 the cheapest. In Canada, Calgary topped out at US$486 followed by Toronto at $342 USD and Montreal at $305 USD.

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Reon Kadena

Reon Kadena, also known as Minamo Kusano, was born on Feb. 19, 1986 in Osaka, Japan. She stands 5’5″ tall and weighs a mere 95 lbs, but the petite model does not come short with her 35C-23-34 measurements.

As a highly popular Gravure idol in her native Japan, Kadena mainly profits from photo books and self-promotional DVDs (most with clothes on), but in recent years, she has explored other opportunities by making appearances in movies, talk shows, TV commercials, and late night comedy skits.

Reon’s innocent and angelic appearance, paired with her fabulous figure, has made her the sexiest and the most profitable Gravure idol in Japan. I’m sure you won’t disagree after going through our 9 page photo gallery and videos below.

Nozomi Sasaki

Nozomi Sasaki is a popular young Japanese fashion model who has appeared in Japanese fashion magazine Pinky and various gravure idol photo shoots. Nozomi-chan started as a teen model when she won two modeling competitions Young Jump’s GYARUKON Grand Prix 2005 and Princess Pinky Grand Prix 2006. She has been featured many times as fashion model for Pinky magazine though she has also been featured Young Jump, Up To Boy, Weekly Playboy, Sabra, Bidan and some fashion catalogs .

She has also appeared in several TV commercials for CHERICHE perfume, POLA cosmetics, Sokenbicha Tea (Coca Cola), NTT Do Co Mo, Sony Internet SO-Net and Kate Ruber jewellery, a music video for Jpop group Aqua Timez and besides wanting to be a successful model, her future plan is to have an acting or TV career. She co hosts TVMX’s Entertainment Audition show Garimpeiro and Wowwow’s UEFA Euro 2008 soccer coverage.

If your Japanese girlfriend attended the Tokyo Girls Collection 2008 event, she would have told you that Nozomi Sasaki was one of the fashion models.

Airin

Another fresh faced JAV idol enters the arena to do battle with the babes who have already made it, Airin and very nice looking new JAV model appears here in her debut, New Face Debut (International Beautiful Young Lady Risky Mosaic - Airin - New Face Risky Mosaic).

Akari Asahina

Akari Asahina is a Japanese gravure model and actress. Born on May in 1988 and a native in Gunma Prefecture, she appeared in many sexy bikini magazines, TV programs and titillating photoshoots. She had already released a DVD and photobooks. She plays basketball during her pastime.

Miyu Euhara

Miyu Uehara (Myuu Uehara) 上原 美優 is a pretty22 year old Japanese gravure model and a race queen from Kagoshima prefecture who is only 152cm tall and weighs 38kg! Coming from a family of 10 and being the youngest, she had a troubled childhood being expelled from high school and started working in a hostess bar at age 18 in Tokyo. She later became a race queen for Forumla Nippon in 2006 and made her gravure idol debut for Sabra magazine in 2007.

Since 2008 she has appeared on numerous TV shows as a guest talent, TV commercials for ITJ law firm and Apple Auto Network and released 2 gravure DVDs. Miyu is currently on NTV shows おもいッきりDON! and variety show どれだけ食えスト.(japansugoi.com)