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

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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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Top 15 Nissan LEAF markets in US in 2013

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Top 15 LEAF market year-to-date in 2013. Nissan provided a list of the top 15 markets in the US for the Nissan LEAF battery-electric vehicle. Four of the top 15 markets are in California: San Francisco (1), Los Angeles (2), San Diego (7) and Sacramento (8). —Erik Gottfried, Nissan director of EV Sales and Marketing.

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Ford names first markets for the Focus Electric

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Ford Motor Company has named the first markets that will sell the Focus Electric, Ford’s all-electric passenger car: Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Raleigh Durham, N.C.; Richmond, Va.;

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Junkyard Find: 2004 Mitsubishi Diamante LS

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Mitsubishi began selling cars with its own branding in the United States in late 1982 , introducing three car models and a pickup as 1983 models. Today's Junkyard Find is one of the very last Diamantes sold here, now residing in a Denver car graveyard. The hot-rod VR-X got an additional five horses. Why is it here?

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Nissan LEAF passes 25,000 sales mark in US

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The battery-electric car posted its best US sales month yet in March, and a 423.5% We’re seeing the adoption curve for EVs accelerate, and there is tremendous interest not only on the West Coast but in a number of new strongholds like Atlanta, Raleigh, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, St. year-over-year sales increase in April.

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Production version of 1,914 hp electric Rimac Nevera to make US debut in Monterey

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The production version of the 1,914hp all-electric Rimac Nevera will make its US debut at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering during Monterey Car Week on Friday, August 19. The two production-ready cars were produced on Rimac’s new production line on the outskirts of Zagreb, Croatia, just weeks prior. seconds, and to 100mph in 4.3

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Junkyard Find: 2009 Suzuki Equator RWD Crew Cab

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French cars and extreme-high-mile machinery are on my list, of course, plus Sawzall roadsters / pickups , art cars and oddball special editions. The Suzuki Equator seems to be the most puzzling of them all , though, and now my decade-long search has unearthed one in a Denver-area car graveyard.

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