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Junkyard Find: 2005 Pontiac Sunfire

The Truth About Cars

Here's one of those last-year cars , found in a car graveyard in Charlotte, South Carolina. market Js were available as two- and four-door sedans , coupes , three-door hatchbacks , convertibles and station wagons. Then the "J" got dropped and it became the 2000 for just the 1983 model year.

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Study: tightening vehicle emissions standards resulted in higher rates of automaker non-compliance; unintended effects of threshold-based regulations

Green Car Congress

The most common ways to meet emissions thresholds are to install expensive catalytic converters or reduce the weight or horsepower of the vehicle. The main issue here is that the EU is using a straightforward cutoff standard. Economically, automakers have little financial incentive to abide by the tight emissions standards.

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