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AC Cobra GT Roadster, 2024 Nissan GT-R: This While’s Supremacy Pictures

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AC Automobiles, the British corporate that constructed the Ace sports activities automotive impaired through Carroll Shelby within the Nineteen Sixties to form the untouched Shelby Cobra, this date introduced a contemporary sports activities automotive.

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Tesla Model S matches gas cars by going 320 miles at average speeds of 75 mph

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The range of the Model S Long Range Plus is comparable to the Mustang Shelby GT500, which has a 16-gallon fuel tank and the Jeep Renegade, which has a 12.7-gallon The Tesla Model S made headlines as the first battery electric vehicle to have an EPA-estimated range over 400 miles from a 100kWh battery pack. gallon fuel tank.

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Ford / AVL study concludes mid-level ethanol blend attractive as a long-term future fuel for use in optimized engines in US

Green Car Congress

improvement in EPA metro/highway (M/H) CO 2 emissions with comparable full load performance. benefit in EPA M/H CO 2 and a 3.1% degradation in EPA M/H fuel economy versus E10 and a CR of 10:1. The study by the Ford / AVL team provides an overview of the effects of such a future ethanol-gasoline blend in such an engine. (As

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Road Test: 2021 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Premium

Clean Fleet Report

High-powered Mustang GT, Mach1 and Shelby GT500 versions are well-known, with the latter model pumping-out 760 pin-you-back-in-your-seat horsepower. The EPA has rated the EcoBoost 2.3L mpg, exceeding the EPA figure. Shelby GT500 $74,095. High-Performance Turbo Manual Transmission Fun. And yes, you can spin the tires!

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Ford’s math on hybrid fuel economy; standing by the C-MAX EPA ratings, acknowledging large real-world variance

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At Friday’s event unveiling the new Transit commercial vehicle family for North America ( earlier post ), Ford’s Raj Nair, group vice president global product development, spent some time addressing the issue of the large discrepancy between real-world fuel economy results for the C-MAX hybrid and its EPA fuel economy ratings—47 mpg (5.0

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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He said he plans to discuss the idea with [Caroll] Shelby and [Lee] Iacocca. regulatory EPA approval." ( Response to consumer inquiries after NPR story, February, 2006 ) "The mass market is not interested in plug-ins," says Cindy Knight, Toyotas environmental- communications administrator. "But its ready now. We can do this.

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