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Junkyard Find: 1992 Pontiac LeMans SE Aerocoupe

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Part of this is due to the action-packed rise and fall of the Daewoo brand here, the 1999-2002 rollercoaster ride that included the company's CEO going on the lam to evade embezzlement charges, but mostly it's because of Daewoo's fascinating role in The General's Greater East Asia Co-Misery Sphere. The final year for those cars was 2002.

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Denied! The cute Nissan Micra has been reborn as an EV rival for the MG4 and BYD Dolphin, but not for Australia

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Drawing clear influences from the Mk3 Micra (K12) that was sold from 2002, the baby Nissan EV gets neat circular LED daytime running lamps that are replicated at the rear by another pair of pencil-thin LED tail lamps. 2026 Nissan Micra. At the front, when you unlock the car, its LED lamps ‘wink’ at the approaching driver.

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Junkyard Find: Zombie 2010 Saturn Outlook XR-L Premium

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After a belated realization that truck-shaped vehicles were key to sales success, the Saturn Vue appeared as a 2002 model and was bedeviled by intracorporate competition from its Chevrolet Equinox and Pontiac Torrent siblings a few years later. That makes it the most expensive Saturn model ever sold. Yes, it came with a remote.

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The Engineer Who Secured Nigeria’s Democracy

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To complete these forms, applicants fill in bubbles, the way it’s done on many standardized tests. It was a race against time to build the infrastructure for the 2002 elections. “We The advice I have for [younger engineers] is to keep their minds open and be creative and innovative.”

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Volkswagen’s new Touareg to offer two PHEV variants

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All are paired as standard with an 8-speed automatic gearbox and the 4MOTION permanent all-wheel drive. In 2002, the Touareg was the first SUV from Volkswagen. million units have been sold since the Touareg was first introduced in 2002. All use a 3.0-liter liter V6 engine. Presales of the new Touareg have started. More than 1.13

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USGS boosts assessment of recoverable natural gas in Marcellus Shale by 42x from 2002; now 84 trillion cubic feet

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These gas estimates are significantly higher than the last USGS assessment of the Marcellus Shale in the Appalachian Basin in 2002, which estimated a mean of about 2 trillion cubic feet of gas (TCF) and 0.01 billion barrels of natural gas liquids. the fracking boom) have been significant in the last decade, USGS says.

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Study Finds that US Subsidies for Fossil Fuels Are Almost 2.5x Those for Renewables

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US subsidies for fuels and renewable energy, 2002-2008. The study, “Estimating US Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008”, found that fossil fuels benefited from approximately $72 billion over the seven-year period, while subsidies for renewable fuels totaled $29 billion. Nuclear was not included in the analysis.