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Used Car of the Day: 2004 Acura RSX Type S

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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. We're back after a break for the 2023 Los Angeles Show coverage. Yeah, I know, we use the RSX a lot for this feature. If you don't like it, you don't have to read further.

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Cumulative worldwide sales of Honda hybrids passes 1 million units

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announced that its cumulative worldwide sales of hybrid vehicles surpassed 1 million units as of the end of September 2012. This milestone was reached 12 years and 11 months after the start of sales of the first generation Insight in Japan November 1999, which realized fuel economy of 35 km/liter (82.3 hybrid vehicle sales.

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Honda President Ito steps down, Takahiro Hachigo to replace him

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From April 2004 to March 2006, Hachigo was stationed in the US as Senior Vice President of Honda R&D Americas, Inc., where he became actively involved in the local development of Honda and Acura automobiles. In April 2006, Hachigo became Operating Officer of Honda R&D Co.,

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

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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’s electric drive vehicle sales. of its total 2,493,918 vehicle sales.

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