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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. That car was the 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line, and I managed to find one in a Denver-area car graveyard recently. A 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line hybrid in a Colorado wrecking yard.

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Junkyard Find: 1986 Subaru BRAT GL

The Truth About Cars

This made it a sales hit in snowy, mountainous Colorado. Just a bit over 150,000 miles on the odometer at the end. The highest-mile junkyard Subaru I've documented so far was a 1993 Impreza with 319,554 miles. This made them cars in the eyes of federal law. Sales elsewhere continued through 1994.

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Commercial Shipping Emits Almost Half As Much Particulate Pollution as Total Released by World’s Cars

Green Car Congress

Globally, commercial ships emit almost half as much particulate matter pollutants into the air as the total amount released by the world’s cars, according to a new study led by NOAA and the University of Colorado at Boulder. During the summer of 2006, Lack and colleagues, aboard the NOAA ship Ronald H. teragrams, or about 2.2

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Junkyard Find: 2009 Suzuki Equator RWD Crew Cab

The Truth About Cars

French cars and extreme-high-mile machinery are on my list, of course, plus Sawzall roadsters / pickups , art cars and oddball special editions. The Volkswagen Routan , Saab 9-7X , Mitsubishi Precis , Acura SLX , Isuzu I-Series , 2006-2009 Mitsubishi Raider and 1988-1993 Pontiac LeMans come to mind here.

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No Hostage to Oil

Plug In Partners

must not be 'hostage' to foreign oil Monday 20 February 2006 By Tabassum Zakaria MILWAUKEE, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The United States must reduce its dependence on oil from foreign countries that can hold it hostage, President George W. Here is part of the Reuters Story. These countries know we need their oil and that reduces influence.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Car-Makers Say. Click on images of cars 1, 6-8, or 10-12 for high-resolution images (media may use with credit: CalCars.org). Hymotion, February 2006 Hymotion Toronto, Ontario info@hymotion.com 6. 2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp.

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