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Junkyard Find: 1982 Mercedes-Benz 300 D With 417k Miles

The Truth About Cars

If you owned a car that had traveled more than 400,000 miles during its life, could you bear to send it into the cold steel jaws of The Crusher ? Here's a very solid Mercedes-Benz W123 oil-burner that now languishes in a self-service boneyard in Phoenix, Arizona. That car has been pushed down to 16th in the MMJO list. market 300 D.

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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. Portland, Oregon, Denver, Colorado, Columbus, Ohio and Austin, Texas. —Gero Götzenberger, Director of Strategy and Investments at Mercedes-Benz Mobility. million users.

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Scrapyard Find: 2010 Peugeot Bipper, Royal Mail Edition

The Truth About Cars

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).

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It’s in the powertrain!

Electric Auto Association

The Lucid Air is lauded for efficiency BY Gordon Hrodda, Member of Denver Electric Vehicle Council. Efficiency can be expressed in miles per kilowatt-hour or kwh (common in US; higher is better), or kwh per mile (often done in Europe; lower is better). With a monster battery, efficiency can drop from 5 miles per kwh to around 3.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Self-driving cars has been a focus of Uber for the last half of the decade with the company racking up about 80,000 autonomous miles a week as it strives to bring driverless cars into the mix. The current iteration of the company features a variety of electric and ICE Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Mini and other brands of cars. In the U.S.

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