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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Aries SE Four-Door Sedan

The Truth About Cars

After a decade of fuel shortages and general malaise , Detroit (and Kenosha) knew that American car buyers still loved soft-riding, roomy sedans with comfy bench seats but needed them to be more efficient. Today, we'll look at a K sedan that survived 36 years before being retired in California.

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When They Electrified Christmas

Cars That Think

Homeowners can illuminate the eaves with iridescent icicles, shroud their shrubs with twinkling mesh nets, or mount massive menorahs on their minivans. Detroit Post and Tribune. In 1910, an article in. An abridged version of this article appears in the December 2021 print issue as "It's a Wonderful Light.".

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Chrysler Changes Its Mind About EVs

Revenge of the Electric Car

Department of Energy to develop a test fleet of 220 hybrid pickup trucks and minivans, vehicles now scrapped in the sweeping turnaround plan for Chrysler announced this week by Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne. Read the text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. by Kevin Krolicki, for Reuters. billion federal aid package.

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2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The legendary SUV brand’s first plug-in hybrid

Charged EVs

That’s not surprising—the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid, the company’s only previous plug-in hybrid, is a well-executed PHEV with an EPA-rated 32 miles of usable electric range that retains all the virtues of the Pacifica minivan. This article appeared in Charged Issue 56 – July/Aug 2021 – Subscribe now. The two couldn’t be more different.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We can now say with confidence that it is worth waiting 70+ days to make the shift to the left side of the car, following a brief spin around Cobo Hall in a prototype vehicle during the SAE World Congress here in Detroit. For now, if you want to keep moving, you need to keep pressing go. No coasting available. Small size. New technology.