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Junkyard Find: 2004 Mitsubishi Diamante LS

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Having read all four episodes, you now know that 2004 was the final model year for the Diamante in North America, and that only 4,379 examples were sold here that year. There was a time when Mitsubishi dealers in North America offered just about every kind of car and light truck for sale. The engine is a 3.5-liter

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Junkyard Find: 2005 Pontiac Sunfire

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market Js were available as two- and four-door sedans , coupes , three-door hatchbacks , convertibles and station wagons. This one rolled off the line in September of 2004. Those prices are likely meaningless, anyway, because dealers were motivated to get these antiquated heaps off their lots in order to make room for the new G5s.

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NHTSA announces follow-up recall of 2.12 million cars and SUVs over TRW airbag defects

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million Acura, Dodge, Jeep, Honda, Pontiac, and Toyota vehicles from model years 2002 to 2004 for a defect that may cause airbags to deploy inadvertently. This is unfortunately a complicated issue for consumers, who may have to return to their dealer more than once. A hassle is much better than a family tragedy.

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Junkyard Find: 2009 Suzuki Equator RWD Crew Cab

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It was available for the 2008 through 2012 model years, and fewer than 6,000 were sold during that span. It had dwindled to just the Axiom and Rodeo by 2004, then staggered on for a few more years selling hastily rebadged Chevy Trailblazers and Colorados.

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Kansas City Assembly Plant comes on line as second US plant building new Ford F-150

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Combined, Kansas City Assembly and Dearborn Truck facilities will have capacity to produce more than 700,000 Ford F-150 pickups per year for availability in 90 markets globally. In January, F-Series had its strongest sales month since 2004—Ford’s best sales year ever for F-150. Retail sales increased 7% in February.

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First driving behavior-based telematics automobile insurance developed for Toyota connected cars in Japan

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The plan is available to owners of certain units of Toyota connected cars, and uses driving data gathered via telematics technologies to adjust insurance premiums based on the level of safe driving every month. In 2004, the company launched a distance-based automobile insurance that utilized Toyota’s telematics technologies.

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SEC issues cease-and-desist order against split-cycle engine developer Scuderi Group for violations of Securities Act

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In its order, the SEC noted that between 2004 and 2011, Scuderi Group sold more than $80 million worth of securities through offerings that were not registered with the Commission and did not qualify for any of the exemptions from the Securities Act’s registration requirement. —SEC order (Release Nº 33-9407).

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