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

The Truth About Cars

When it comes to junkyard cars with impressively high final odometer numbers, Toyotas , Hondas , Volvos and Mercedes-Benzes seem to be the most likely to have driven better than 400,000 miles during their lives. Well, today's Junkyard Find is the highest-mile discarded Fuji Heavy Industries product I've ever found. How about Subaru?

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

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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. liter engine and automatic).

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Junkyard Find: 1983 Chevrolet S-10 Durango 4x4

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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. Is that 36,871 miles or 436,871 miles?

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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

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Built in Missouri, probably shipped to Colorado by train, then sold new in Greeley, located about 60 miles north of Denver and the site of a famous Utopian community during the late 19th century. It was brought back to life on the 2003-2004 Marauder , a version of the Grand Marquis powered by the Lincoln Mark VIII 's DOHC engine.

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

Green Car Congress

The Lightning Electric Transit Bus Repower is available for order now with delivery in six months and offers a range of up to 200 miles (depending on the configuration). Eligible California customers can receive up to $71,250 in HVIP vouchers towards the price of the Transit Bus Repower. —Tim Reeser, Lightning Systems CEO.

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Junkyard Find: 1996 Saturn SC2

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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. 1996 Saturn SC2 in Colorado wrecking yard. This car has neither.

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