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Junkyard Find: 1992 Pontiac LeMans SE Aerocoupe

The Truth About Cars

Part of this is due to the action-packed rise and fall of the Daewoo brand here, the 1999-2002 rollercoaster ride that included the company's CEO going on the lam to evade embezzlement charges, but mostly it's because of Daewoo's fascinating role in The General's Greater East Asia Co-Misery Sphere. The LeMans was cheap but not that cheap.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

We’re now in the crisis CalCars knew, when we began in 2002, would some day arrive. (We And oil only seems cheap. Since our cars and trucks use almost two-thirds of the oil we buy, the quickest way to cut oil use is to free transportation from its grip. But let’s realize: defending our nation is never cheap.

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Alpine Says A110 Successor Will Come to United States, Outlines Expansion Plan

The Truth About Cars

One could have also said that of Porsche in 2002. Now, you can find people buying used Porsche SUVs on the cheap to be used as comfortable cruisers or built into luxury baja buggies. But the brand isn’t known for SUVs and crossovers, it’s known for building extremely lightweight performance and race cars in small quantities.

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2022 GMC Hummer EV: the biggest, baddest, butchest EV to hit the market?

Charged EVs

The two body styles parallel the pair of H2 versions sold from 2002 to 2009, when Hummer was one of eight brands offered by GM. The Hummer EV will get GM noticed by parts of the buying public that couldn’t care less about small hatchback EVs. After all, that’s exactly what Tesla did.

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The Sneaky Standard

Cars That Think

And some are as cheap as high-end PCs. Instead, the standard was developed by IBM, Compaq, and Hewlett-Packard , doubling the bandwidth of the existing PCI standard—and released in the wild not long before HP and Compaq merged in 2002. This was a deep underestimation of Intel’s market position, it turned out.

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Discover Le Havre, Where Impressionism Was Born

Baua Electric

A master of precast concrete, he used the cheap, plentiful material to build 150 residential blocks with identical modular frames, a rectangular grid system of streets, and wide sidewalks and boulevards. Elaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times, based in France since 2002.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

More from Fortune No party for Citis owners: You and me Is it time to buy American Express? Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. Berkshire Hathaway first tried to buy 25% of BYD, but Wang turned down the offer. " One more thing reassured him.

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