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Used Car of the Day: 2004 Land Rover Discovery

The Truth About Cars

It's a 2004 Land Rover Discovery with a brand-new engine. The ask is $25,000 and this Land Rover is for sale in Raleigh. We send you into the weekend with a weird one today. There are just 3,000 miles on the engine, which is a 4.6-liter. The trim is an SE and the transmission is an automatic. Check it out here.

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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. Are those paltry sales the result of Mitsubishi's puzzling major refresh of the body for '04, which made the car look like a bloated Lancer ? The engine is a 3.5-liter

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Porsche’s North American CEO Leaves Company

The Truth About Cars

In 2004, he left Porsche for Daimler, where he rose to director of strategy for Mercedes-Benz Cars before returning to Porsche in 2010. & “We thank Kjell Gruner for his excellent work at Porsche,” stated Detlev von Platen , Member of the Executive Board for Sales and Marketing at Porsche AG.

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Gasoline consumption in California rose 2.4% during FY 2014-15; largest yearly increase in a decade

Green Car Congress

during fiscal year (FY) 2014-15, the largest yearly increase since FY 2003-2004 (increase of 2.6%). In FY 14-15, BOE gasoline revenue estimates for sales and use taxes and excise taxes came in at $1.470 billion for sales and use tax and $5.371 billion for excise tax. million for sales tax and $357.7

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Volkswagen Group appoints new heads of Global R&D, Group Design, Group Product and Modular Toolkit Strategy

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He has been Head of the Design Department at Porsche AG since 2004 and was also given responsibility for styling the 2007 Porsche Cayenne, the Panamera and the 918 Spyder. He held various responsibilities in the export section of Sales at Volkswagen AG from 1983.

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Iogen More Than Doubled Cellulosic Ethanol Production in 2009, Passes 1M Liter Mark

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Iogen Corporation announced that its cellulosic ethanol production in 2009 topped 581,000 liters (153,000 gallons US), more than doubling the firm’s 2008 fuel production, and surpassing the one million liter (264,000 gallons US) mark in cumulative production since 2004. This achievement is second to none.

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All Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Cars Are Compliance Cars, For Now

Green Car Reports

When the first Honda Insight and Toyota Prius hybrids launched in 1999 and 2000, expectations for their sales were low. And hybrids indeed logged annual sales in the low thousands until the second-generation Prius came along for 2004.