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Please Pick an Actual Color for Your Next Car Purchase

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percent since 2004, while white gained 77.4 That same mentality also applies to people looking at vehicle resale values, leading them to buy “safe” colors in hopes that a later sale will be easier. Our roads are becoming more monotone than ever before. Gray has grown by a staggering 81.9 percent market share. colors 20 years ago.

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New Jersey marks up EV ownership with additional $1,000 fee

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2024 Volvo C40 The governor has also proposed eliminating a sales tax exemption for EVs that’s been in place since 2004—potentially adding more revenue for infrastructure maintenance to the state’s coffers, but making EVs more expensive to own than gasoline cars.

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Ford: boomers leading trend to compact utility vehicles

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Baby boomers who purchase homes from Del Webb, which caters to the 55-plus market, prefer more efficient, one-story homes; premium options these buyers specify add about 20% to the price of the home. In year-over-year retail sales, Escape is experiencing 24% growth—outpacing the national compact utility vehicle average increase of 18%.

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Ford focusing NA growth plans on “super segment”

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This super segment represents just more than 50% of total new vehicle sales in the US. As recently as 2004, super segment sales were only 35% of the market. Ford expects more growth in the super segment, as baby boomers continue to downsize their vehicle purchases and first-time millennial buyers enter the market.

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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

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The DSO code of 51 shows that it was sold out of the Denver sales office. The Montclair and Park Lane names disappeared after 1968 (the Monterey name survived through 1974, then was revived for the Mercurized Ford Freestar in 2004). The Marauder name got ditched in 1966, then revived on a massive personal luxury coupe for 1969 - 1970.

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New Jersey advancing plug-ins: 330K units by end of 2025, 2M by 2035, 85% of new vehicles by 2040

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Any incentive offered under this program would take the form of a one-time payment to the purchaser or lessee of an eligible vehicle. An “eligible vehicle” is any new light duty plug-in electric vehicle with an MSRP of below $55,000 purchased or leased after the effective date of the bill and registered in New Jersey.

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Junkyard Find: 2002 Daewoo Nubira SE Sedan

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Just about the final vestiges of passion and mechanical competence had been squeezed from the Chevrolet Cavalier by 2002 (after two decades of J-Body sales ), but the price of the Cavalier was pretty good: $14,035 for the cheapest possible four-door version ($19,697 today). The revised Lanos came back as the 2004 Chevy Aveo.

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