Filed under: Diesel, Green Daily
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If your child rides the bus to school in New York City, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) would like you to know that he or she is being exposed to “harmful pollution levels” during the daily ride. The EDF issued a report yesterday [...]

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Filed under: Diesel, Opel, Paris Motor Show

Opel Insignia ecoFlex
Opel has added a special low fuel consumption ecoFlex model to the expanding mid-size Insignia lineup. The new Insignia that debuted this summer is the replacement for the mid-sized Vectra and the first product off GM’s Epsilon II platform. The newest addition to the family uses GM’s [...]

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Filed under: Diesel, Hybrid, Citroen, Green Daily, Paris Motor Show

We got a preview of Citroën’s new Hypnos hybrid ‘ute a month ago and the real thing is even more ka-razy than we thought. Offset rainbow seats? You got it. Suicide doors and a pillar-free frame? No problem. An interior that Citroën calls a “powerful sensory [...]

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Filed under: Diesel, MPG, Audi, Paris Motor Show

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Audi has a brand-new A4 for 2009, and the automaker has big plans in store of the new model’s efficiency. Being shown as we speak in Paris is the A4 TDI concept e, which uses a 120-horsepower TDI engine from the VW parts bin that’s [...]

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Filed under: Diesel, Chevrolet, Paris Motor Show

Chevrolet Orlando
Chevrolet has fully taken the wraps of the new Orlando compact people mover for its debut at the Paris Motor Show. We still don’t know for sure if the Orlando will be offered here in North America, but the rest of the world will get this compact seven [...]

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Filed under: Diesel, MPG, Volkswagen, Paris Motor Show

How would you like to have a mid-sized sedan or station wagon that gets over 57 mpg (U.S.)? That’s exactly what Volkswagen has unveiled in Paris as the Passat BlueMotion II. It’s being shown as a further evolution of the latest Passat BlueMotion, part of VW’s lineup of [...]

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Filed under: Diesel, Legislation and Policy, USA

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As it stands today, the vast majority of police cars are powered by large gasoline-fed V8 engines up front, which drives the rear wheels through an automatic transmission. The steel body sits atop a heavy steel frame to which a [...]

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