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Junkyard Find: 1991 Ford Escort LX 4-Door Hatchback

The Truth About Cars

Here's one of those first-year Mazdafied Escorts, found in a Denver-area car graveyard. A five-speed manual transmission was base equipment, even in the cheapskate Escort Pony , but the original purchaser of this automobile sprang for an extra $732 ($1,662 in 2023 dollars) for this four-speed overdrive automatic. No, you did not!

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Junkyard Find: 1959 Renault Dauphine

The Truth About Cars

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. Up to 40 miles to the gallon of gas. Citroën held out here until 1974.

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The New Supersonic Boom

Cars That Think

The 1964 Oklahoma City tests involved more than 1,000 flights, which sparked more than 15,000 complaints, as documented in a 1971 report prepared by the National Bureau of Standards. The best-funded of this group is Denver-based Boom Technology (which also goes by the trade name Boom Supersonic). Environmental Protection Agency.

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Campaign Begins

Plug In Partners

Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) would combine today’s new gas-electric hybrid technology with larger batteries that could provide an all-electric operating range of 25 to 35 miles or more. The result is an 80+ mile-per-gallon vehicle — with even greater fuel economy possible utilizing bio-fuels. Last year, U.S.

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2018 VW Tiguan and new 2.0 TSI B-cycle engine gives VW a strong offering in compact SUV segment

Green Car Congress

Based on our half-day of driving the new Tiguan in the foothills of Denver, the automaker has succeeded on the quality front. A Start/Stop system is standard for all Tiguan trims. The Tiguan is the only vehicle in its class to offer the Automatic Post-Collision Braking System, which is standard on all models.

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Xcel Energy and Customer Coalition To Be Among First Users of Electric Transit Connect

Green Car Congress

The company will also provide $20,000 grants from its Chairman’s Fund to support the purchase of 11 additional Ford Transit Connect Electric vans for its project partners. Xcel Energy, a major US electricity and natural gas company, will add two of the 13 vans into its corporate fleet. The city of Saint Paul, Minn.,

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Michael purchased a new white Tesla Roadster with the intention of making a cross-country trip that would be powered only by homegrown American electrons. Note: Recharging from a standard 110 VAC, 12-Amp source would take 27 to 30 hours to replenish the battery pack and significantly slow the progress of the roadtrip.