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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

The Truth About Cars

Here's a car trivia question for you: what engine name went on to become the designation for a body style and then a car model name in its own right? The door tag tells us that this car was assembled in St. The DSO code of 51 shows that it was sold out of the Denver sales office. Why did this car meet such a fate?

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NREL study focuses on growing use and impacts of ride-hailing services at airports

Green Car Congress

In a new study, NREL researchers focused on the key observability aspects of new modes and the rate of shifts in mobility patterns across airports in the regions of San Francisco, Portland, Denver, and Kansas City—all US DOT Smart City Challenge finalists. —Alejandro Henao, NREL postdoc.

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Junkyard Find: 1978 Chrysler LeBaron Coupe

The Truth About Cars

The LeBaron name goes well back in Chrysler history, starting when the coachbuilder known as LeBaron Carrossiers was purchased by Detroit car-body-builder Briggs Manufacturing in 1926 and Chrysler bought Briggs in 1953. Here's one of those cars, found in a Denver boneyard recently. Worth restoring? Not in this condition.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk calls for an end to TSLA’s end-of-quarter vehicle delivery blitzes

Teslarati

Per my email several weeks ago, our focus this quarter should be on minimizing *cost* of deliveries, rather than spending heavily on expedite fees, overtime, and temporary contractors just so that cars arrive in Q4. Denver @tesla dominated deliveries this week. Unconfirmed reports of 200+ cars delivered both Friday, Saturday alone.

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A Serial Entrepreneur Shares Lessons Learned on His Road to Success

Cars That Think

When Arjun Pillai was a youngster, the words entrepreneur and startup weren’t part of his vocabulary. His most recent venture, Insent , was a business-to-business chat platform based in Denver; it was acquired last year by software and data company ZoomInfo of Vancouver, Wash. ZoomInfo hired all of the startup’s employees.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. Some auto companies have incorporated car sharing elements into their new business enterprises. New ideas like Tesloop keep popping up.

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Junkyard Find: 1983 Datsun 200SX Coupe

The Truth About Cars

Today's Junkyard Find , found in a yard just south of Denver , is a nicely preserved example of the final year of the S110 Silvia , as well as of the Datsun name. This car sure looks a lot like the 1978-1983 Mitsubishi Galant Lambda hardtop , sold in North America as the Dodge Challenger and Plymouth Sapporo.

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