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Land Rover As We Know It Is Going Away - Sort Of

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In its place, the automaker will offer four individual brands: Range Rover, Defender, Discovery, and Jaguar. Though it’s a bummer to lose the Land Rover name, many people already treat the Range Rover and other models like standalone brands, so things likely won’t change much. is shrinking to make room for the transition.

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Land Rover unveiling 7 battery-electric Defender research vehicles at Geneva show

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Range is more than 50 miles (80 km). Curb weight is 100 kg (220 lbs) more than a basic Defender 110 and ranges from 2055 kg to 2162 kg (4,530 lbs to 4,766 lbs) depending whether the body style is a pick-up, hard top or station wagon. The standard 90 kW (121 hp), 360 N·m (265 lb-ft) 2.2-liter liter diesel—replaced by the 2.2

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Opinion: Everyone Is Guessing When It Comes To Oil Prices

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Still that is quite a large range, highlighting the fact that everyone is merely guessing. Globally, the picture isn’t any better—Citigroup says Europe is at 90 percent, while South Korea, South Africa, and Japan may all be nearing 80 percent. Once completed, however, the backlog of wells will push down prices.

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New A-Class to offer radar-based collision prevention assist as standard along with array of other advanced safety options; fuel consumption down by up to 35%

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Mercedes-Benz’s new 5-seat A-Class hatchback, which will offer a range of engines from 80 kW (109 hp) to 155 kW (211 hp) (earlier post), with emissions as low as 98 g of CO 2 /km and a best-in-class drag coefficient of 0.27, will also include in the standard specification a radar-based Collision Prevention Assist system.

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Tata Takes On Air

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The CityCat model will clock out at 68 mph with a driving range of 125 miles. The compressed air technology is basically just a way of storing electrical energy without the need for costly, heavy, and occasionally toxic batteries. It is anticipated that approximately 6000 Air Cars will be cruising the streets of India by 2008.