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Junkyard Find: 2004 Mitsubishi Diamante LS

The Truth About Cars

Having read all four episodes, you now know that 2004 was the final model year for the Diamante in North America, and that only 4,379 examples were sold here that year. Just about every reviewer laughs at the current Mirage (I think it's a perfectly serviceable little car for the price) and the Outlander is all about easy financing.

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Junkyard Find: 1995 Subaru Legacy L Wagon with 366,223 miles

The Truth About Cars

I live in Colorado, where Subarus are everywhere and the car graveyards are well-stocked with everything from early Leones to mangled WRXs , so I find a lot of these cars. These days, the most common Colorado junkyard Subarus are members of the Legacy family, mostly Outback wagons of the late 1990s through middle 2000s.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

In fact, fuel prices went insane right around the time that review was written. If we look at the fine print, GM actually introduced a sort-of-a-hybrid vehicle as a 2004 model , though the 2004 Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid/GMC Sierra Hybrid didn't have regenerative braking. liter engine and automatic).

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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

The Truth About Cars

Here's a car trivia question for you: what engine name went on to become the designation for a body style and then a car model name in its own right? Starting in 1958, Ford's new MEL ( M ercury- E dsel- L incoln) big-block V8 engine was given the Marauder name when installed in Mercury models. The answer is, of course, Marauder.

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Junkyard Find: 1983 Chevrolet S-10 Durango 4x4

The Truth About Cars

The cheapest possible 1982 LUV listed at $6,256, while the most affordable S-10 had an MSRP of $6,270 (those prices come to $20,801 and $20,848 in 2024 dollars). The real issue, though, is whether those vehicles took their names from the Mexican state or the Colorado city. However, other engines were available: a 2.0-liter

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Lightning Systems receives California ARB Executive Order for the Transit Bus Repower powertrain

Green Car Congress

Lightning’s first Transit Bus Repower powertrain was deployed in a 2004 30-foot GILLIG bus and has been on the road with a transit operator in Colorado for the past 9 months. —Tyler Yadon, director of engineering, Lightning Systems. Lightning Electric Repowered Gillig bus. —Tim Reeser, Lightning Systems CEO.

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Junkyard Find: 1996 Saturn SC2

The Truth About Cars

The Saturn Division spent the first half of the 1990s printing money for The General with its no-haggle pricing policy and plastic-bodied cars that only rusted in areas you couldn't see easily, and all those cars were based on a single platform: the S Series. liter DOHC engine and its 124 horsepower/122 pound-foot engine was still there.

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