The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2024

That car was the 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line, and I managed to find one in a Denver-area car graveyard recently. Our nameless reviewer felt , back in 2006, that the Vue's panel gaps made it the "automotive equivalent of a shotgun shack" and calculated that the Green Line version would require 90,000 miles of driving with $2.15/gallon

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VUE Saturn 2007 Green 105

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

liter EcoBoost engine ( earlier post ) for $295. starter motor to provide seamless engine starts once a driver. module to assures vehicle accessories function normally when the engine is off. liter EcoBoost engine and Auto Start-Stop will save about $1,100 more than other midsize sedan owners during five years of driving.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

The hybrid group accumulated 33% fewer miles than the conventional group during the complete 18-month study. The team also performed dynamometer testing at the Renewable Fuels and Lubricants (ReFUEL) Research Laboratory in Denver. —NREL Project Engineer Michael Lammert. mpg, 13% greater than the 9.2 Source: NREL.

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Fuel Economy Economy Hybrid Diesel 350

The Truth About Cars

JUNE 3, 2024

However, other engines were available: a 2.0-liter Since GM printed its door tags so poorly during the Malaise Era and all the VIN numbers have been erased from this truck, there's no telling which engine once lived here (probably not the diesel, since the fuel gauge reads UNLEADED FUEL ONLY). Is that 36,871 miles or 436,871 miles?

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Durango Chevrolet Colorado Isuzu 59

The Truth About Cars

MARCH 11, 2024

Today's Junkyard Find is one of those cars, found in a self-service boneyard near Denver, Colorado. Meanwhile, the version of this engine sold in West Germany made 215 horsepower and 169 pound-feet. I've also found (what was almost certainly) a gray-market W108 proto-S-Class. market 380 SEL came with a 3.8-liter

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Mercedes Market Colorado United States 105

The Truth About Cars

JUNE 12, 2023

Finally, in a Denver-area boneyard , I found this battered '93 GXE sedan. The engine is a 2.4-liter This car managed to survive three decades of Big Altima Energy , and it traveled well over 200,000 miles during that time. The original Altima was the replacement for the U12 Bluebird -derived Stanza here. You'll see.

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Nissan Carbon Fiber Denver Ozone 98

The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 7, 2023

Today's Junkyard Find is a second-generation BRAT, found in a self-service yard between Denver and Cheyenne. Just a bit over 150,000 miles on the odometer at the end. The highest-mile junkyard Subaru I've documented so far was a 1993 Impreza with 319,554 miles. The engine is a 1.8-liter

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Pennsylvania New Jersey New Zealand Denver 98

Electric Auto Association

MARCH 4, 2022

The Lucid Air is lauded for efficiency BY Gordon Hrodda, Member of Denver Electric Vehicle Council. It has triple the power density of the best Tesla equivalent and represents a staggering improvement over an internal combustion engine vehicle. With a monster battery, efficiency can drop from 5 miles per kwh to around 3.

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F-150 Miles Denver Lithium Ion 52

The Truth About Cars

JUNE 17, 2024

Today's Junkyard Find now resides in a yard near Denver. The engine is a 1.6-liter It made it to 200,000 miles during its life, which gets it pretty close to the final odometer reading in the best-traveled Suzuki I've ever documented in a junkyard ( a 2000 Esteem wagon with 237k miles ).

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Suzuki Colorado Denver United States 59

The Truth About Cars

MAY 15, 2023

Today's Junkyard Find , found in a yard just south of Denver , is a nicely preserved example of the final year of the S110 Silvia , as well as of the Datsun name. This engine was known as the Z22 , so its valve cover was entitled to a bit of Z-Car-referencing labeling. Under the hood, the '83 200SX got a 2.2-liter

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Dodge Nissan North America Denver 98

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.;

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Michigan 2012 Ford Lithium Ion 363

The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 22, 2024

The York facility is much closer to Heathrow Airport (to which there are cheap nonstop flights from Denver) than the one in Edinburgh , so we rented a Mercedes-Benz A-Class saloon and drove the four hours north to York (stopping at a breaker's yard near Nottingham to grab some Euro-market XJ Cherokee taillights, as one does).

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2010 Cheap United Kingdom Denver 105

The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I discovered a Mexican-market '06 Peugeot 407 in a Denver boneyard, earlier this year, and thought years would pass before the next time I'd hear the ghosts of André Citroën , Louis Renault , and Armand Peugeot singing La Marseillaise over a car graveyard. Up to 40 miles to the gallon of gas. about five years later).

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San Jose California USA Denver 102

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2015

—Mitch Nichols, UPS senior vice president of transportation and engineering. When the deployments are completed, UPS anticipates its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet will continue to log more than 350 million miles (563 million km) per year, supporting the company’s goal of driving one billion miles (1.6

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Building Fuel Alternative Fuels Oklahoma 150

The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 26, 2023

I've been writing about junkyardified cars here at TTAC since November of 2010, when I documented a pair of Fiat 128s in a Denver boneyard. Three numerals; the first indicated the series, the second the number of engine cylinders and the third the number of doors. If this is the original naturally-aspirated 2.3-liter

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Volvo Miles Denver California 111

Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2016

The finalists are: Austin, TX; Columbus, OH; Denver, CO; Kansas City, MO; Pittsburgh, PA; Portland, OR; and San Francisco, CA. Autodesk will provide InfraWorks 360 and finalists will get access to (and training on) Infraworks 360, a modeling platform that uses 3-D visualizations and real-world data to plan major engineering projects.

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Kansas City Columbus Portland Kansas 150

The Truth About Cars

APRIL 17, 2023

Today, it's the turn of the third member of the 2000-2002 Daweoo triumvirate: The compact Nubira, an example of which I found in a Denver self-service yard last week. This car just squeezed past the 100,000-mile mark during its 21 years on the road. The engine is a 2.0-liter liter DOHC four-banger rated at 129 horsepower.

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2002 2004 Suzuki United States 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2017

The all-new 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan—the second-generation of the vehicle—is powered by the latest version of the EA888 four-cylinder engine, the 2.0L This is the only engine/transmission combination available in the Tiguan in the US. L TSI EA888 Gen 3, the new B-Cycle engine delivers about an 8% improvement in efficiency.

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2018 Engine SUV MPG 314

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In a separate study, Yellowstone is partnering with the NPS Intermountain Regional Alternative Transportation Program, the NPS Denver Service Center, and the DOT Volpe Center to analyze the opportunities, risks and costs of local shuttles possibly originating at Old Faithful and Canyon Village.

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Florida Denver Fleet Transportation 378

The Truth About Cars

MARCH 4, 2024

Today's Junkyard Find is an example of the sporty coupe version of the first-generation Saturn S , found in a Denver-area boneyard recently. We're here to praise this SC2 for staying on the road for close to three decades and well over 250,000 miles. liter DOHC engine and its 124 horsepower/122 pound-foot engine was still there.

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Saturn Colorado Isuzu Denver 105

Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

A new generation of aeronautical engineers and entrepreneurs are, however, keen to once again take on the technical, environmental, and economic challenges. The best-funded of this group is Denver-based Boom Technology (which also goes by the trade name Boom Supersonic). Boom Supersonic.

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Oklahoma City Ozone Oklahoma Fuel 110

The Truth About Cars

APRIL 24, 2023

Last week, a first-model-year Lark sedan showed up at a self-service yard just south of Denver , and I was there to document it in its final parking spot. Meanwhile, AMC would sell you a new '59 Rambler Rebel four-door sedan with a V8 engine for $2,228 ($23,189 after inflation). You never know what you'll learn from a Junkyard Find !

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Denver North America Colorado Chrysler 98

Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) would combine today’s new gas-electric hybrid technology with larger batteries that could provide an all-electric operating range of 25 to 35 miles or more. The result is an 80+ mile-per-gallon vehicle — with even greater fuel economy possible utilizing bio-fuels.

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Nickel Metal Hydride EPRI Plug-in Austin 100

The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 11, 2023

French cars and extreme-high-mile machinery are on my list, of course, plus Sawzall roadsters / pickups , art cars and oddball special editions. But my favorite Junkyard Finds are obscure examples of what-could-they-have-been-thinking badge engineering , and today's truck has lived atop my wish list for nearly 15 years.

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Suzuki 2009 Colorado Isuzu 105

Electric Auto Association

APRIL 4, 2021

The Denver EAA chapter is still dedicated to its core mission nearly 50 years after its founding. Members of the Denver Electric Vehicle Council tour the Xcel Energy Cherokee power plant. When folks would find out the car had a 40-mile range, that was the end of discussion. We began with displays in shopping malls.

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Colorado Denver Golf Cart Convert 57

The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 4, 2024

p][cuttext][/cuttext][p][br][/p][p]Researchers examined 7,670 sections of pavement in Dallas, New York City, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Miami, Denver, and Washington D.C. blockquote][blockquote]The researchers also found no significant changes in car crashes with wider traffic lanes in a speed limit zone of 20–25 miles per hour.

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New York City Philadelphia Miami Denver 52

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The A3 e-tron BEV pilot program will run in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Denver markets throughout the year and provide actionable feedback and telematics data to Audi engineering teams in the US and Germany. This marks Audi’s first foray into the rapidly developing US electric vehicle landscape.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

AUGUST 3, 2009

Georg also enlisted the help of University of Iowa computer programmer/engineer Karen Pease. This effort was led by Georg Kuhnke, who lives near Sacramento, California. He received volunteer support from Earl Cox, Geoff Kinsey, and Doug Korthof in Southern California.

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Las Vegas 2009 San Francisco Iowa 36

Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

International airfare departing from the United States is up 10 percent for 2024 compared with 2023, according to Kayak , a travel search engine. This program is currently available at 30 airports nationwide, including Salt Lake City International Airport and Denver International Airport ; the T.S.A. But airline capacity, Ms.

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