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Honda premiers BRIO urban commuter car in Thailand

Green Car Congress

(HATC), Honda’s automobile production and sales subsidiary in Thailand, has unveiled the BRIO urban commuter car. liter 4-cylinder i-VTEC engine delivering 90 hp (67 kW), with fuel economy of 5 L/100km (47 mpg US). The starting price will be 399,900 baht (US$13,300), with an annual sales plan of 40,000 units.

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2023 Toyota Prius Limited Review – Finally a Worthy Choice

The Truth About Cars

To be sure, the Prius is no sports car. liter four-cylinder/electric motor pairing – 194 horsepower now for front-wheel drive models like my test car, and 139 lb-ft of torque for all models – erases the pokiness of the past and brings the car up to date. mpg -- and the computer wasn't reset when I picked up the car.

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2024 Subaru Crosstrek Review - For Those About To Flock, We Salute You

The Truth About Cars

But their bread is buttered with their bread-and-butter smaller cars, much like the 2024 Subaru Crosstrek seen here. & That’s why I’m thinking that a car like the Crosstrek is an ideal choice for a dad to buy. An unexpected road trip yielded indicated highway numbers closer to 38 mpg than the EPA’s 33 mpg highway rating.

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Opinion: A Plug-In Perk: Free Charging

Clean Fleet Report

While in some cases it’s actually true (the most expensive of charge points vs. the most efficient of internal combustion cars, like my 2008 MINI Cooper Clubman that often gets almost 40 MPG), for the most part these are just hit pieces to sow controversy and generate revenue on ad-heavy websites. Yes, we still do occasionally gas up.

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2024 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Review – Cheap(ish) Speed

The Truth About Cars

For most car enthusiasts, a Ford Mustang without a V8 under the hood is sacrilege. Depending on how you option your car, you get either two separate digital screens or a one-piece curved glass screen with the gauges in front of the driver (duh) and the infotainment stuff angled towards said driver. liter turbocharged four-cylinder.

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2023 Toyota Prius Review – Better, But is That Good Enough?

The Truth About Cars

But is that good enough to lure in those who have long disdained the car as a wedge-shaped penalty box that existed only to lengthen the time between fill-ups? Toyota claims this brings 0-60 times up to 7 seconds for FWD cars and 7.2 AWD cars – slow, sure, but far more respectable than the 10-second times from before.

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New diesel Volkswagen Golf GTD heading for the US; first driving impressions

Green Car Congress

diesel delivering 184 horsepower (137 kW), 280 lb-ft (380 N·m) of torque, CO 2 emissions of 109 g/km, and a NEDC combined fuel economy figure of 56 mpg US (4.2 l/100 km)—also a marked improvement over the A6 GTD’s 43 mpg. l/100 km)—also a marked improvement over the A6 GTD’s 43 mpg. With a new 2.0L

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