Denver Engine Miles Purchase 
The Truth About Cars
DECEMBER 4, 2023
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? Starting in 1958, Ford's new MEL ( M ercury- E dsel- L incoln) big-block V8 engine was given the Marauder name when installed in Mercury models. The answer is, of course, Marauder.
The Truth About Cars
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Here's one of those first-year Mazdafied Escorts, found in a Denver-area car graveyard. Though the second-generation North American Escort was a Mazda Protegé under the skin, Ford held onto the good old UK-developed CVH straight-four engine , a crypto-OHC design that displaced 1.9 liters in this application. That's what's in this car.
The Truth About Cars
JANUARY 22, 2024
The York facility is much closer to Heathrow Airport (to which there are cheap nonstop flights from Denver) than the one in Edinburgh , so we rented a Mercedes-Benz A-Class saloon and drove the four hours north to York (stopping at a breaker's yard near Nottingham to grab some Euro-market XJ Cherokee taillights, as one does).
Green Car Congress
APRIL 2, 2015
UPS announced plans to purchase and deploy 1,400 new CNG vehicles over the next year, representing a 27.5% To support the purchase and planned deployment of the 1,400 new CNG vehicles, UPS plans to build 15 compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations. —Mitch Nichols, UPS senior vice president of transportation and engineering.
The Truth About Cars
OCTOBER 10, 2023
I discovered a Mexican-market '06 Peugeot 407 in a Denver boneyard, earlier this year, and thought years would pass before the next time I'd hear the ghosts of André Citroën , Louis Renault , and Armand Peugeot singing La Marseillaise over a car graveyard. Chrysler sold Simca 1100s (badged as 1118s and 1204s) in the USA through 1971.
The Truth About Cars
APRIL 17, 2023
Today, it's the turn of the third member of the 2000-2002 Daweoo triumvirate: The compact Nubira, an example of which I found in a Denver self-service yard last week. This car just squeezed past the 100,000-mile mark during its 21 years on the road. The engine is a 2.0-liter liter DOHC four-banger rated at 129 horsepower.
The Truth About Cars
DECEMBER 26, 2023
I've been writing about junkyardified cars here at TTAC since November of 2010, when I documented a pair of Fiat 128s in a Denver boneyard. Three numerals; the first indicated the series, the second the number of engine cylinders and the third the number of doors. If this is the original naturally-aspirated 2.3-liter
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