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Used Car of the Day: 2004 Acura RSX Type S

The Truth About Cars

Today we bring you a 2004 Acura RSX Type S. For the rest of you, this one is on sale for $5,000 and has 210,000 miles on the clock. Yeah, I know, we use the RSX a lot for this feature. That's because inexpensive compact sports cars with three pedals tend to tickle my fancy and I do most of the picking for this segment.

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Junkyard Find: 2009 Suzuki Equator RWD Crew Cab

The Truth About Cars

French cars and extreme-high-mile machinery are on my list, of course, plus Sawzall roadsters / pickups , art cars and oddball special editions. The Volkswagen Routan , Saab 9-7X , Mitsubishi Precis , Acura SLX , Isuzu I-Series , 2006-2009 Mitsubishi Raider and 1988-1993 Pontiac LeMans come to mind here.

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Ford puts the pedal down on performance … but not with electric drive technology right now

Green Car Congress

However, unlike today’s hybrid drive Le Mans racers, or the new Acura NSX hybrid supercar, also revealed at NAIAS ( earlier post ), the GT—nor any of the other Ford performance vehicles unveiled at NAIAS—makes no use of electric drive technology. Ford has been selling hybrids and, later plug-ins, since 2004.

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