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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

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Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. Even with $4/gallon gas ($6.13

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NYPD Adds 40 Altima Hybrid Patrol Cars to Fleet

Green Car Congress

The New York Police Department (NYPD) has deployed 40 Nissan Altima Hybrids as the first alternative fuel vehicles to be used as marked and unmarked patrol cars in the Police Department’s fleet. The Nissan Altima Hybrids account for 40 of more than 100 total hybrid vehicles the Department is expected to deploy this year.

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US LDV Sales Fall 37.1% in January; January SAAR Below 10 Million

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There were 26 selling days in January 2009, compared to 25 selling days in January 2007. Passenger car sales were led by Camry and Camry Hybrid, which posted combined sales of 20,782 units, down 34.2% Camry Hybrid accounted for 5.5% The Prius mid-size gas-electric hybrid posted January sales of 8,121 units, down 28.6%

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