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Junkyard Find: 2007 Mini Cooper S

The Truth About Cars

The "New Mini" first appeared in North American showrooms as a 2002 model, as part of the turn-of-the-century wave of retro-styled machinery that included the Volkswagen New Beetle , Chrysler PT Cruiser and Chevrolet HHR. They're cheap, quick enough to be fun, and junkyard parts are plentiful. department.

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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 news that General Motors would relaunch the infamous Hummer name—as an all-electric truck no less—broke a few days before the high-dollar, high-visibility 2020 Super Bowl ad that introduced that vehicle to the world. The name isn’t its own brand; the 2022 GMC Hummer EV will be sold as a model line within the GMC luxury truck brand.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

Cars That Think

So I wrote the article to try to get the point across: This is the way the industry is going to get things really cheap.” In 2002 Moore received a U.S. “The integrated circuit was changing the economy of the whole [electronics] industry, and this was not yet generally recognized.

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

Green Car Congress

The good news? That’s why we need a second speech with a new strategy. We’re now in the crisis CalCars knew, when we began in 2002, would some day arrive. (We For details on what we’ve called “The Big Fix” beyond the following, see [link] —and we’ll continue adding back-up info at CalCars-News and elsewhere.

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SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell to oversee Starship program, Starbase facilities

Teslarati

Hired in 2002, it’s entirely possible that SpaceX wouldn’t have survived if her sales acumen hadn’t convinced NASA to take a billion-dollar bet on the company in 2008.

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