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Junkyard Find: 2008 Mercury Sable, Press Loaner Flashback Edition

The Truth About Cars

When you write about cars for a living, you can get carefully prepared vehicles dropped off at your door (or at airports) for you to experience and then review. The very first press car I ever received was a red 2008 Mercury Sable , so let's take a look at the same kind of car at the end of its 16-year career.

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EPA proposes rules for chemicals and fuels made from plastic waste-based feedstocks

Green Car Congress

The proposed Significant New Use Rules (SNURs) would require notification to and review by EPA before these fuels could be made using plastic waste-derived feedstocks that contain impurities such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS); heavy metals; dioxins; bisphenols; and flame retardants.

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Reddit Thread Entitled “Tesla Is Off My List” Gets 2484 Comments

CleanTechnica EVs

Tesla CEO Elon Musk gets rave reviews from some, brickbats from others. Where do you stand on Tesla's mercurial leader?

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2024 Hyundai Kona N-Line Review - A Solid Cup

The Truth About Cars

I kinda dig the full-width front lightbar - someone in Hyundai’s design department truly loved the Mercury Sable, I’m sure, and adapted their work to the modern LED age. Styling is exactly what you’d expect from the segment - mostly anonymous with a touch of the anodyne.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Ford Taurus SE

The Truth About Cars

The original Ford Taurus first appeared as a 1986 model , going through three generations and nearly 10 million sales (counting the Mercury Sable ) before getting the axe in October of 2006. That made 2007 the final model year for the "real" Taurus, and I've found one of these rare cars in a New Orleans self-service junkyard.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

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 In fact, fuel prices went insane right around the time that review was written.

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Junkyard Find: 2006 Mazda Mazdaspeed6

The Truth About Cars

Back in 2006, Jonny Lieberman reviewed the then-new Mazdaspeed6 for this publication. Some knowledgeable junkyard shopper grabbed the engine and transaxle out of this car, perhaps in order to swap it into a platform cousin such as the Mercury Milan. The decklid spoiler was subdued and where's the monstrous hood scoop?

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