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

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I've documented a discarded Dodge Caravan with 434,475 miles , and of course I don't even bother shooting a Toyota Previa in the junkyard unless it traveled better than 400k miles. miles: right around the period during which the USSR collapsed! Look at the timing of the switch to odometers that could go to 999,999.9

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Junkyard Find: 2004 Ford Taurus SE Wagon

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Here's one of those cars, found last year at a boneyard about 250 miles to the northeast of its birthplace. That said, I think we all lost something when wagons (and hatchbacks, and sedans, and minivans, and sports cars, and motorcycles, and probably even Zambonis) became culturally irrelevant after the Rise of the SUV.

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Junkyard Find: 1987 Dodge Caravan SE V6

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Discarded examples of the first- generation Chrysler minivans have been much more difficult to find, but I ran across this '87 Caravan in Colorado Springs last week. The K-platform -based Chrysler minivan first appeared as a 1984 model, as the Caravan and Plymouth Voyager. four-cylinder with 150 horses tearing up the front tires.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. Showed BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS series PHEV concept in December 08. Establishing dealer network.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Journal or San Jose Mercury News ), Business Week, The Economist Favorite kind of music Classical and electronic Favorite composers Sergey Prokofiev, Dimitry Shostakovich Computer A Hewlett-Packard workstation, which is used “only to print my e-mail; I dictate all my answers to my secretary.”