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Junkyard Find: 2004 Mitsubishi Diamante LS

The Truth About Cars

We had an extensive range of Mitsubishi models to choose from for quite a while, including a credible luxury sedan known as the Diamante , but those days are long gone. 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.

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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

The Truth About Cars

The door tag tells us that this car was assembled in St. Its final parking spot was in the U-Pull-&-Pay just north of downtown Denver, so it appears to have spent its entire career in Front Range Colorado. I bought this badge to give to a friend who resides in another wealthy enclave called Montclair. Louis on November 7, 1963.

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Mazda Launches Revamped Micro-Mini Carol in Japan

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Mazda Motor Corporation has launched the fully updated the Mazda Carol micro-mini for the Japanese market, its first full remodeling since September 2004. The most fuel-efficient versions in the range, the front-wheel drive (FWD) grades with CVT, achieves 24.5 Tags: Brief. Mazda Carol XS (FWD model with CVT).

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Next-gen Skoda Octavia to be unveiled on February 14. Official sketches revealed

Baua Electric

The facelifted Skoda Octavia will be available in liftback sedan and wagon body styles in global markets, with numerous trim levels, including a Sportline grade for buyers who desire a touch of the vRS’s design without the price tag. Petrol engines ranging from 1.0 Both that engine and the 197 bhp 2.0-litre

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DuPont Tate Lyle Bio Products Expanding Bio-PDO Production in Tennessee

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Formed in 2004, DuPont Tate & Lyle produces Bio-PDO from corn instead of petroleum-based feedstock using a proprietary fermentation process. Tags: Brief. Construction is scheduled to start in June, and the expansion is expected to be complete by second quarter 2011. Earlier post.)

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Supercritical Ethanol Liquefaction of Swine Manure to Produce Bio-oils

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Researchers from North Carolina A and T State University have converted swine manure to bio-oils by using ethanol as a solvent in an autoclave in the reaction temperature range of 240-360 °C without any catalyst. If this energy could be harvested, it would be equivalent to 21 billion gallons of gasoline (ThePigSite, 2004). American J.

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Michigan State University Receives $2.5M ARPA-E Award to Build Wave Disc Engine/Generator for Series Hybrid Applications

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Our goal is to enable hyper-efficient hybrid vehicles to meet consumer needs for a 500-mile driving range, lower vehicle prices, full-size utility, improved highway performance and very low operating costs. In axial-flow configurations, noted Müller and co-authors in a 2004 paper, pure scavenging is a challenging task. Piechna et al.

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