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Review: 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid achieves Prius-like fuel economy

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Here’s what you need to know after Green Car Reports spent a morning driving a 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid prototype around Montreal. Econ and Normal will be remembered upon key cycle, but turning the car off in Sport mode will find the car defaulting back to Normal mode when it’s restarted. Every Civic gets a 7.0-inch

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2024 Subaru Crosstrek Premium Review – Competent Utility

The Truth About Cars

Reliability, when it comes to cars, has at least two meanings. As I’ve often said in these reviews, those of us who are self-described car enthusiasts sometimes forget that while we might place a premium on acceleration or ride and handling, most car buyers don’t. The other involves how well it does its prescribed job.

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ICCT: incremental technology can cut vehicle CO2 by half and increase fuel economy >60% through 2030 with ~5% increase in price

Green Car Congress

l/100 km) in 2016, the The ICCT team assessed increased consumer label fuel economy (as opposed to the regulatory test fuel economy) to 35 mpg (6.71 The resulting trajectory would reduce CO 2 emissions by half and increase fuel economy by more than 60% from 2016 through 2030. Source: The ICCT.

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2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R Review – Beast Mode

The Truth About Cars

I mentioned the abysmal fuel-economy numbers – they are 10 mpg city/15 mpg highway/12 mpg combined. The climate is changing, after all. Get the latest& news, features, TTAC takes, and everything else that gets to the truth about cars first by subscribing to our& newsletter. The exhaust drowns it out, after all.

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2023 Toyota Sequoia Review – Comfortable Yet Cold

The Truth About Cars

This review will be an unusual dual-trim review – I drove two separate Sequoias within a short time of one another. They’re not different enough to justify two separate reviews. The climate and audio buttons are easy enough to learn and use, and I appreciated the nice amount of storage in the center console area.

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2024 Hyundai Elantra N Review – Tightening Up

The Truth About Cars

Well, that’s true – it’s mostly the same car that launched a couple of years ago. That’s a lot of small, minor changes that are too technical for the average buyer to care about, but in theory, the car should ride and handle a bit better and be more resistant to brake fade. What’s that you say? You know about the Elantra N?

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Review: 2025 Toyota Crown Signia gives America a hybrid wagon

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Later this summer the 2025 Toyota Crown Signia will roll into dealerships and buyers will find a spacious, more practical iteration of the Crown sedan , which replaced the Avalon atop the automakers passenger car lineup. Passenger cars, which include wagons and sedans can’t come from the factory with tinted windows because of wonky laws.

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