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Junkyard Find: 1948 Dodge Custom Sedan

The Truth About Cars

Chrysler managed the feat for the 1949 model year; we admired a Plymouth Special Deluxe sedan from that year in a Colorado car graveyard last summer, and today we're going to take a look at an example of one of the last of the stopgap postwar Chrysler products : this '48 Dodge in a yard just south of Denver. liter) version with 95 horses.

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Battery revolution! Has Stellantis cracked the code for super-cheap EVs that will undercut ICE?

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As part of its heavy investment in Tiamat, a company owned by the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Stellantis says it will build a new factory in France to mass produce the new cheap batteries. Has Stellantis cracked the code for super-cheap EVs that will undercut ICE? READ MORE: Range anxiety solved?

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Stuff We Use: What’s the Best Dash Cam?

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We had no desire to nudge the Challenger with another car, making me pine for the old days when I usually had at least one demolition derby car parked in my backyard, instead choosing to nudge the Dodge as if an inattentive passerby walked into the car while filming a TikTok video.

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2024 Ford Mustang GT Review – Pony Power, Premium Price

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The Chevrolet Camaro is dead, and the Dodge Challenger will be dead soon. This car isn’t cheap, and that stinks. I’m sad that speed like this is no longer affordable, but happy it still exists. The 2024 Ford Mustang GT remains an icon of American muscle – and now it has no competition. That changed many moons ago.

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New EV electric car calendar

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ACE-EV X1 Transformer – Australian-based start-up plans a small range of affordable EVs focused on light commercial duties. $5 Chevrolet Equinox – affordable mid-sized SUV set to go EV in 2023. Hyundai Ioniq 5 – more affordable version of the Ioniq 5 arrives in Australia in mid-2022.