Rolls Royce

Rolls-Royce is a British brand of high-end luxury automobiles. Rolls Royce Limited was created over a lunch in 1904. Rolls-Royce Limited was formed on March 15 1906, by which time it was apparent that new premises were required for production of cars. During 1906 Royce had been developing an improved six cylinder model with more power than the Rolls Royce 30hp. Initially designated the 40/50 hp, this was the company's first all-new model  The Silver Ghost, launched in 1907, was a car of legendary smoothness that completed a 14,371 mile virtually non-stop run, creating 'the best car in the world' legend. In 1931 Rolls-Royce purchased rival Bentley. The company also made engines for planes until 1973 when the divisions were split into separate companies. Not only did Rolls Royce make engines for planes, but they also manufactured military vehicles, torque converters and diesel engines. British defence company Vickers bought Rolls-Royce Motors Limited in 1980 and continued producing Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars. Renamed Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited in 1985. A Rolls-Royce powered car broke the land-speed record again in 1983. In 1998 after BMW licensed the rights to the Rolls-Royce brand name and logo from Rolls-Royce PLC and acquired the rights to the Spirit of Ecstasy and Rolls-Royce grill shape trademarks from Volkswagen AG. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited has been manufacturing Rolls-Royce branded cars since 2003.

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The 2 Series

On October 25, 2013 the BMW 2 Series Coupe was said to replace the 1 Series Coupe.It’s based on the latest 1 Series hatchback but slightly stretched to create a sportier coupe body style. With a longer and lower body, wider track and stretched wheelbase give it sportier coupe proportions, while neatly executed detailing adds to the coupes desirability. The interior is stylish and well built layout is familiar from the 1 Series, but the frame less windows and long doors are as you’d expect for a coupe. The exterior including ddistinctive vents in the lower bumper channel air over the wheels and around the side of the car with LED tail-lights and a chrome kidney grille. The standard kit list include the trademark iDrive infotainment controller, a 6.5-inch display screen, aluminium trim, DAB radio and a multifunction wheel. If you want leather seat upholstery it will cost more. The Coupe is fast and has precise steering and body control is excellent. With great traction the six-speed manual gearbox shifts with typical BMW precision. The BMW 2 Series shares similar parts as the BMW 1 Series. BMW has the reputation of being for reliability and scored well in our Driver Power 2013 satisfaction survey.The 228i braked a foot shorter from 60-0 mph at 106 feet, and completed our figure eight in 25.8 seconds at an average 0.73 g -- a tenth quicker than the 328i. So if you are in the market for a  BMW come on down and check out our selection or visit our website http://www.stgautogroup.com/ and schedule a test drive today!!!

Toyota Tacoma

The Toyota Tacoma comes with a Muscular V6 in numerous body styles and is a convenient in-between size with sporty interior . It is maneuverable and nimble on the road. It is the perfect truck for those who do not desire a full size truck. Brand new a Toyota Tacoma can range between $18,800-$29,100. Most Tacomas offer a choice of rear- or 4-wheel drive with low-range gearing. The base engine is a 2.7-liter inline 4-cylinder rated at 159 horsepower and 180 lb-ft of torque, and it comes with either a 5-speed manual transmission or a 4-speed automatic. The Toyota Tacoma is manufactured  in the U.S. by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota and has been since 1995. Advantages to a new or used Tacoma include a variety of body styles to choose from, useful off-road abilities, solid build quality and a better-than-average reputation for reliability and durability. Test drivers say the front seats offer adequate comfort, support and space. Reviewers like the Tacoma's straightforward climate and audio controls and legible gauges. The Tacoma comes standard with stability control, active front headrests and front, side and side-curtain airbags. In government crash tests, the Tacoma Double Cab received an overall score of four stars out of five, including three stars for frontal impact and five stars for side impact. The independent Insurance Institute for Highway Safety awarded the Tacoma its highest score of Good in all categories except roof strength, where it received a subpar Marginal grade. So if you are looking for a Toyota come down and check out our selection or visit our website http://www.stgautogroup.com/ and schedule a test drive today!!!

The Drive Less Car

    Have you heard of a drive less car?  What was once a secret project has now been revealed to the public. Google has been developing new technology for autonomous cars. Google's robotic cars start as standard vehicles but each packs about $150,000 in equipment, including a $70,000 radar like Lidar system, with a laser on the roof and enough cameras and high-tech gadgets inside. Google's fleet of robotic Toyota Priuses has now logged more than 190,000 miles (about 300,000 kilometers), driving in city traffic, busy highways, and mountainous roads with only occasional human intervention. Two things seem particularly interesting about Google's approach. First, it relies on very detailed maps of the roads and terrain, something that Urmson said is essential to determine accurately where the car is. The project team has equipped a test group of at least ten cars, consisting of six Toyota Prius, an Audi TT, and three Lexus RX450h ,each accompanied in the driver's seat by one of a dozen drivers with perfect driving records and in the passenger seat by one of Google's engineers. Driver less cars could prevent "up to 30,000 fatalities a year, or 80 per day," said Larry Burns, a professor of engineering at the University of Michigan and a Google consultant. Human drivers would be expected to take control if the computer fails. The promise is that, eventually, there would be no need for a human fallback. The project began in 2009 and is still far from working successfully, but hopefully will be available to the public within the next six years. How do you feel about driving a drive less car?

Convertibles

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        Cruising with the top down is an American summer tradition. When you think of cruising with the top down you think convertible. What is that makes a convertible? A convertible is a type of automobile of various automobile body styles that can convert from open-air (top-down or topless) mode to a provisional enclosed (roofed or top-up) mode. Roof designs vary in a wide range of models and have evolved from demountable and/or detachable.Until the 1910 introduction by Cadillac of the United States' first closed-body car, the open or convertible car was the primary body style. The first practical retractable hardtop system was conceived by an American, Ben P. Ellerbeck, in 1922. Peugeot constructed the first power-operated retractable hardtop called ‘402 Éclipse Décapotable’.U.S. automakers manufactured a broad range of models during the 1950s and 1960s – from economical compact-sized models such as the Rambler American and the Studebaker Lark, to the more expensive models such as the Packard Caribbean, Oldsmobile 98, and Imperial by Chrysler.  Convertible production continued throughout this era with models such as the Mercedes SL, the VW Beetle Cabriolet, the VW Golf Cabriolet, and the Jaguar E type.The beginning of 1995 saw the era of modern retractable hardtops. In 2006 Peugeot presented a concept for a four-door retractable hardtop convertible, the Peugeot 407 Macarena. Today there are convertible models made by almost all car manufactuers. If convertibles are what you are looking for you should check out our website http://www.stgautogroup.com/ and view our inventory find what you are looking for and schedule a test drive today!!!

Trucks

        A truck is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo. Trucks come in all different sizes and vary in power. There are all types of specialty trucks equipped with specialty equipment such as fire trucks and

cement mixers. The word "truck" might have come from a back-formation of "truckle" with the meaning "small wheel", "pulley."First introduced in 1925 as the “Ford Model T Runabout with Pickup Body,” the pickup truck has become a staple in American life. Based on the Model T coupe, it featured a cargo box and adjustable tailgate, and was designed to haul small loads. After World War 2 in 1948, Ford began producing its F Series pickup trucks, which were its first models not based on existing cars.  The F series is one of the longest running vehicle lines still popular today. Chevy's Advance Design series was released in 1947 and Dodge's Power Wagon, based directly on a military truck design, was made for civilian use as early as 1945. Around the middle of the 20th century, pickup trucks continued to evolve alongside American cars. Luxury trim levels became available on trucks that were designed more for daily driving than off-road or other special uses. These days all major American automakers produce at least one pickup truck model. Some of the most popular trucks today are: Ford 150, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Ram 1500, GMC Sierra 1500, Toyota Tundra, Honda Ridgeline, Ford Super Duty , Toyota Tacoma, Nissan frontier and the Nissan Titan. So if you are a truck lover or just looking for the truck of your dreams you should visit our website http://www.stgautogroup.com/ and check out our wide selection and schedule a test drive today!!!

The BMW

The history of BMW dates back almost 90 years and contains numerous achievements that have established it as a benchmark .BMW became an automobile manufacturer in 1929 when it purchased Fahrzeugfabrik Eisenach BMW's team of engineers progressively developed their cars from small Seven-based cars into six-cylinder luxury cars and, in 1936, began production of the BMW 328 sports car. BMW's main products were Aircraft engines, motorcycles, and automobiles until World War 2. BMW concentrated on aircraft engine production, with motorcycles as a side line and automobile manufacture stopped altogether. After the war, BMW survived by making pots, pans, and bicycles until 1948, when it restarted motorcycle production. One of the most memorable models in its history was introduced in 1956, the BMW 507 quickly became famous. There were only 252 models of the quickly famous 507 ever produced, it remains a symbol of BMW's struggles and ultimate triumphs during the fifties after the end of the War. By 1959, BMW was in debt and losing money. In 1961, BMW launched the 1500, a compact sedan at the Fankfurt Motor Show. The two-door version of the 1600 was launched, along with a convertible in 1966-1967. Come 1968 BMW launched its large "New Six" sedans. In 1972, the 5 series was launched to replace the New Six sedans followed by  newly introduced larger sedans became the 7 series in 1977. From 1970 to 1993, under Von Kuenheim, turnover increased 18-fold, car production quadrupled and motorcycle production tripled.Between 1994 and 2000 BMW owned the active Rover, Mini and Land Rover brands as well as rights to many dormant marques such as Austin , Morris, Riley, Triumph and Wosley. BMW was  successful with the Mini, MG and Land Rover brands. In the early 2000s, BMW went through periodic cycles of redoing the Design of its various series of vehicles. As of 2013 Total 2013 Production is 297,326 with BMW out doing themselves every year. Here at STG Auto Group of Ontario we carry a wide variety of BMW with low mileage. Check out our website http://www.stgautogroup.com/ and schedule a test drive today.

Subaru

Subaru is a vehicle manufactured by Japanese transportation. Subaru is known for its use of the boxer engine layout in most of its vehicles above 1500 cc as well as its use of the drive-train layout since 1972, with it becoming standard equipment for mid-size and smaller cars in most international markets as of 1996, and now standard in most North American market Subaru vehicles. Subaru also offers turbocharged versions of their passenger cars, such as the Impreza WRX. Subaru of America was established in 1968 in Philadelphia by Malcolm Bricklin and Harvey Lamm. Subaru of America, Inc. today announced that the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS) has awarded the 2015 Subaru WRX and WRX STI the IIHS 2014 TOP SAFETY PICK award. addition to the 2015 WRX, Subaru now has six models that have earned 2014 safety awards from IIHS – three with TOP SAFETY PICK and three with TOP SAFETY PICK+. The Subaru BRZ 

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has good structure for an every-man’s sports car. Front engine, rear-wheel drive, manual transmission. Weighing in at 2,762 pounds for the manual transmission model, the BRZ is one of the lightest sports cars on the market. The low weight helping with fuel efficiency and handling. The Subaru BRZ does not have any competitors.The BRZ is going to be a popular choice for weekend track excursions, and for that there's not only a DSC Sport mode for the stability control but also a full-off mode. So if you are on the market for one of these sporty cars come down an checks ours out.

Top Safety Picks

At Dictionary.com the word Safety is defined as: 1. the state of being safe; freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury, danger, or loss.

2.

the quality of averting or not causing injury, danger, or loss. 

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       So when we think of vehicle safety that would be what we all want. The Top Safety Pick at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in Arlington, VA. created in 1959, requires good performance in the Institute's availability of front crash prevention technology to avoid many collisions in the first place. To qualify the vehicles must pass five test categories: moderate overlap frontal crash, small overlap frontal crash, side impact, rollover and rear impact. , along  22 vehicles earn the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s (IIHS) Top Safety Pick+ award for high-level protection in crashes and the availability of front crash prevention technology. Seventeen models earn the less-stringent Top Safety Pick Award. Among them this year are 

Small cars: Honda Civic Hybrid, Mazda3 (built after October 2013), and Toyota Prius (built after November 2013)

Midsized cars: Ford Fusion, Honda Accord (2- and 4-door),Mazda6, Subaru Legacy, and Subaru Outback

Midsized luxury cars: Infiniti Q50, Lincoln MKZ, and Volvo S60

Large luxury cars: Acura RLX and Volvo S80

Small SUVs: Mazda CX-5 (built after October 2013), Mitsubishi Outlander, and Subaru Forester

Midsized SUV: Toyota Highlander

Luxury SUVs: Acura MDX, Mercedes-Benz M-Class (built after August 2013), and Volvo XC60

Minivan: Honda Odyssey

Models that earn the Top Safety Pick include the Acura TL, Chevrolet Spark, Chrysler 200, Dodge Avenger,Dodge Dart, Ford Focus, Honda Civic coupe, Hyundai Elantra, Kia Optima, Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, Nissan Altima, Scion tC, Subaru Impreza, Subaru XV Crosstrek, Toyota Camry (built after November 2013),Volkswagen Passat, and Volvo XC90.

So if you are in to car safety come down and take a look at our wonderful inventory and test drive today!!! We have a wonderful staff waiting and ready to help you!!!

Luxury Cars

     What defines a "luxury" car? What makes one vehicle "luxury" and another one not? Websters Dictionary definition of Luxury is: A condition or situation of great comfort, ease, and wealth. So what is the difference between luxury and a stand

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ard car? "The difference is not just price," says Brian Smith, vice president in charge of marketing for Toyota's Lexus brand. He says luxury has to do with the overall experience — the car, the dealer, the reputation of the brand, the satisfaction of owning a certain brand. 

      Luxury cars use new technology. They contain high-end features not yet designed for mass-market cars, and they are produced in limited numbers . There are six different classes of luxury cars consisting of: Premium compact segment, Entry-level luxury/compact executive cars, Mid-luxury/executive cars, High-end luxury/full-size luxury cars, Ultra-luxury cars, and Luxury SUV/Crossover. Luxury cars tend to offer a higher degree of comfort and most come equipped with genuine leather upholstery and polished "woodgrain-look" dashboards. What do you look for when you look for a luxury car? What features stand out to you in a luxury car? If you are in the market for a luxury car you should head to one of our locations and check out are wide variety of luxury vehicles and find what suits you.

The Automobile

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      The history of the automobile begins as early as 1769, with the creation of steam engined automobiles capable of human transport. François Isaac de Rivaz designed the first car powered by an internal combustion engine running on fuel gas in 1807. Although the blueprint for the modern automobile was perfected in Germany and France in the late 1800s, Americans dominated the industry in the first half of the twentieth century. Mass-production techniques that became standard was initiated by Henry Ford. General Motors ,Chrysler, and Ford emerged as the three leading auto companies in the 1920's The industry had become global with Japan rising to be the leading auto maker by 1980. In 1980, 87.2 percent of American households owned one or more motor vehicles, 51.5 percent owned more than one, and fully 95 percent of domestic car sales were for replacement. Americans have become truly auto-dependent. In 1983 Chrysler mini vans nearly pushed station wagons out of the market. The Toyota Prius launched in the Japanese market in 1997 has now become the best known hybrid electric vehicle. Today there are over fifty automobile manufactuers some including: Volkswagen, BMW, Chevrolet, Toyota , Chrysler, and Mercedes. Today there are automobiles to fit every drivers needs and desires.