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Junkyard Find: 1971 MG MGB-GT

The Truth About Cars

Here's one of those cars, found at a family-owned yard just south of Denver. While the B was underpowered and unreliable even by the forgiving standards of the late 1980s, I had great affection for it at the time. The original engine in the '71 MGB (which might even be this one) was a 1.8-liter By the middle 1970s, the MGB's 1.8

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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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Junkyard Find: 1982 Mercedes-Benz 300 D With 417k Miles

The Truth About Cars

417,046 miles is about the same as traveling 16-¾ times around Earth (using a great circle route, of course), and that distance is impressive even by Mercedes-Benz diesel standards. Remember that 1985 W123 with 411,448 miles we saw in a Denver car graveyard a few years back? That car has been pushed down to 16th in the MMJO list.

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It’s in the powertrain!

Electric Auto Association

The Lucid Air is lauded for efficiency BY Gordon Hrodda, Member of Denver Electric Vehicle Council. It has triple the power density of the best Tesla equivalent and represents a staggering improvement over an internal combustion engine vehicle. Lucid Air power train. (An There is nothing intrinsically expensive about a 163 lb.

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2018 VW Tiguan and new 2.0 TSI B-cycle engine gives VW a strong offering in compact SUV segment

Green Car Congress

The all-new 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan—the second-generation of the vehicle—is powered by the latest version of the EA888 four-cylinder engine, the 2.0L This is the only engine/transmission combination available in the Tiguan in the US. L TSI EA888 Gen 3, the new B-Cycle engine delivers about an 8% improvement in efficiency.

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Junkyard Find: 1959 Studebaker Lark VIII Deluxe 4-Door Sedan

The Truth About Cars

Last week, a first-model-year Lark sedan showed up at a self-service yard just south of Denver , and I was there to document it in its final parking spot. The firewall tag says it's a 59V Deluxe, which the Standard Catalog describes as being built only for "special order sales, Marshal sales, fleet sales and sales outside the United States."

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Campaign Begins

Plug In Partners

Plug-ins could be recharged by plugging into a standard wall socket, delivering “electric” gallons of gas for about 75 cents a gallon at prevailing electric rates. Everything needed is available: the power trains, the gasoline engines, the computer systems, electric motors and batteries.