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2024 Toyota Grand Highlander Hybrid Max Review - Yeah, It Is That Good

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It’s a heckuva package, showing 27 mpg in both my testing and on the window sticker. The standard hybrid, with CVT and sans turbo, can manage around 33 mpg, give or take depending on front- or all-wheel drive configuration. While my fingers are hovering around the top row of the keyboard, let’s discuss another number - that price.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid

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Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid 40+ MPG Small SUV Starting Under $30,000 Another notch in Toyota’s hybrid belt The Toyota Corolla is one of the best-selling vehicles in the world and Toyota is the largest seller of hybrid vehicles in the world. To keep those lofty perches, sitting still will not do.

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Junkyard Find: 1987 Chevrolet Sprint ER

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The 1987 Sprint ER came in second place, due to its insatiable thirst for go-go juice on the highway (51 miles per gallon). If you want to be picky, the 198 6 Sprint ER was the gas-mileage king of 1980s America, rated at 44 city and 53 highway miles per gallon.

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Road Test: 2021 Volvo XC90 Recharge T8 PHEV

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Fuel economy for the Recharge is 55 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) when you use electricity and gasoline and drops to 27 mpg when you don’t charge up the battery. The EPA’s green scores on the standard 0-10 scale, where 10 is best, include a 7 for Smog, 7 for MPG the Fuel Economy score and a 9 for CO 2 on Greenhouse Gas score.

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

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Your combined MPGe is 49, and your gas-only combined MPG is 20. But if you have the scratch and the access to juice, it makes a strong argument for itself. With the $1,595 destination, that added up to $69,385. The question I kept asking myself during my loan is this: Does going PHEV make the Wrangler Rubicon better?

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

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The juice is supplied by a 1.49 That said, the Sportage Hybrid is fun-to-drive, fuel-efficient (38 mpg combined -- though I was seeing lower numbers. kWh lithium-ion battery. An eight-speed automatic transmission gets the power to the all-wheel drive system. Acceleration is one thing, ride and handling are another.

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

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Volvo’s system will automatically kick in the gas engine when the accelerator is mashed to the floor, but Lexus doesn’t engage the gas engine in EV only mode unless the juice runs out. Here are the pros and cons of the 2024 Lexus RX 450h+ after spending a week plugging in and hauling the family around town.

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