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1962 Mercury Comet + 2013 Nissan Leaf

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page 3 building the wiring harness: page 4 de-icing the Mercury Comet. 1962 Mercury Comet + 2013 Nissan Leaf Table of Contents: planning: pages 1-3 pulling the leaf motor, battery, etc.:

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The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law

Cars That Think

Lithography systems in the 1980s used mercury lamps that radiated at wavelengths of 436 nanometers (violet light) and eventually 365 nm (near-ultraviolet). To reduce the feature size of transistors further, people invented high-power lasers that could produce ultraviolet beams at shorter, 248-nm and 193-nm wavelengths.

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Rare Rides Versus: Lincoln Continental Mark III and Cadillac Eldorado

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In 1967 Fords personal luxury offerings were the new midsize Thunderbird (coupe, sedan), and the larger Mercury Cougar that shared its platform with the Ford Torino. GM had the head start as it had developed a platform specifically and exclusively for use on more expensive premium and luxury coupes.

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Junkyard Find: 1988 Merkur Scorpio

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The Capri had sold pretty well here and was available via Mercury dealers without marque badging. Left-hand-drive Consuls , Prefects , Anglias and Zephyrs reached our shores in the 1950s, followed by the Cortina in the 1960s. For the 1970s, we got the Fiesta and Capri , both built in West Germany.

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Junkyard Find: 1994 Chevrolet Chevy Van with 314,837 miles

The Truth About Cars

For US-made vehicles bearing genuine American brand names on their badges, it goes like: 1986 Oldsmobile Calais, 363k miles 1992 Jeep Cherokee, 355k miles 1992 Jeep Cherokee, 352k miles 1990 Chevrolet Caprice, 350k miles 1990 Geo Prizm, 321k miles 1995 Mercury Tracer, 319k miles 1994 Chevrolet Chevy Van, 314k miles 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee, 314k miles (..)

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Junkyard Find: 2004 Ford Taurus SE Wagon

The Truth About Cars

A handful of 2005 Mercury Sable sedans and wagons were sold before the curtain went down on the Taurus' Mercurized sibling The Taurus wagon held on until the 2005 model year , with the final examples built in late 2004.

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The Top 8 Computing Stories of 2024

Cars That Think

Virtual minds floating in a computer made out of the planet Mercury orchestrate an effort to terraform other planets. Contributing editor Charles Choi annotated the story, explaining how the fictionalized world draws on real science and tech. Will it be a brave new world, or a solar system of loneliness?

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