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2024 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Review – Cheap(ish) Speed

The Truth About Cars

One note – if you want the magnetic ride package, and I think you do, you need to first buy the Performance Package. Fuel economy for the EcoBoost is 22 mpg city/33 mpg highway/26 mpg combined, and 21/29/24 with the Performance Pack. You buy a Mustang, you know what you’re sacrificing.

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Elio Motors to buy engines, abandons building its own

Green Car Reports

Elio Motors, which has been struggling since 2009 to build its own ultra-cheap, small, fuel-efficient, three-wheeled car, announced Thursday that it will source an engine from a major automaker. Previously, the company planned to build its own 3-cylinder engine with up to 55 horsepower for its projected 84-mpg three-wheeler.

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2023 Toyota Prius Limited Review – Finally a Worthy Choice

The Truth About Cars

Similarly, you won’t buy this car for its cornering ability, but it no longer feels like any level of aggression will overcome the tires and send you into the bushes. I get it – sound deadening equals fuel-economy killing weight. Still, if you want Lexus quiet from your hybrids, you’ll need to, you know, buy a Lexus.

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2023 Jeep Wrangler 4xe Rubicon Review – Charged-Up Jeep

The Truth About Cars

It gives you the chance for some seriously swift acceleration without making the fuel-economy sacrifices demanded of you by the bonkers 392. Sure, you might buy a Wrangler only for the image and not for the utility – but you can’t say we didn’t warn you. Your combined MPGe is 49, and your gas-only combined MPG is 20.

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2023 Kia Sportage Hybrid EX Review – Urban Crossover, Right Price

The Truth About Cars

So well-suited, in fact, that I put it on my list of “if I needed a brand-new crossover, I’d consider buying this”. Some materials felt a bit cheap, though. The entire package is well put together, balancing fun-to-drive, functionality, and fuel economy. The hybrid pairs a 1.6-liter horsepower and 195 lb-ft of torque.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

And oil only seems cheap. If we can again succeed like that, in a decade, we’ll look back and know that we got a great deal: safer, healthier, better lives, an economy no longer held hostage to petro-dictatorships and blindered, monopolistic companies, and a significant response to climate change.

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Test drive: 2024 Lexus RX 450h+ half-steps into future

Baua Electric

But it’s not cheap; it’s not elegant; and Lexus’ tech foibles carry over from the standard RX and other models. The electric-only range is meaningful, it’s just a shame the package is priced as if Lexus doesn’t really want anyone to buy this thing.

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