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Junkyard Find: Gray-Market 1981 Mercedes-Benz 380 SEL

The Truth About Cars

Of all the European-market new cars that flooded into the United States during the wild gray-market years of the early and middle 1980s , the Mercedes-Benz W126 S-Class appears to have been the most popular. Today's Junkyard Find is one of those cars, found in a self-service boneyard near Denver, Colorado.

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Mercedes-Benz and BMW to sell car-sharing JV SHARE NOW to Stellantis

Green Car Congress

Mercedes-Benz Mobility and BMW Group intend to sell their car-sharing joint venture SHARE NOW to Stellantis. Together, both shareholders have developed SHARE NOW into the market leader in Europe and continuously developed it further, including new offers such as long-term car sharing.

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Junkyard Find: 1995 Subaru Legacy L Wagon with 366,223 miles

The Truth About Cars

When it comes to junkyard cars with impressively high final odometer numbers, Toyotas , Hondas , Volvos and Mercedes-Benzes seem to be the most likely to have driven better than 400,000 miles during their lives. 1995 was also the final year in which American Subaru shoppers could buy new cars with front-wheel-drive.

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Tesla layoffs, Hyundai Ioniq updates, Mercedes-Audi SUVs: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Mercedes-Benz and Audi are working on smaller electric SUVs. And Colorado took the first step to require electric cars to come to the state. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The Hyundai Ioniq hybrid and plug-in hybrid Prius-fighters are already set for a refresh.

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Junkyard Find: 1988 Volvo 740 GLE with 403,348 miles

The Truth About Cars

This isn't the highest-mile Volvo 740 wagon I've ever found in a car graveyard. The highest-mile discarded Volvo I've ever documented was a 1990 240 sedan in Colorado with 631,999 miles. Then there's a whole bunch of junked 240s with odometers showing between 300,411 and 393,888 miles , all found in Colorado or California.

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Mercedes-Benz sets Pikes Peak diesel record with near-production C 300 d

Green Car Congress

Mercedes-Benz has set a new record for the diesels in the Pikes Peak hill-climb race with a near-production C 300 d 4MATIC. As is customary for a racing car, the interior was cleared out. Test driver Uwe Nittel completed the 19.99

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Tesla, alternative EV makers most likely value California sellers $910 million in 2022 benefit alternative

Baua Electric

The marketplace percentage of franchised sellers in Washington, Colorado and alternative states that let direct gross sales and apply California’s condition requirements is also declining and launch to devour into their attainable benefit puddle.