Best Car to Buy 2016
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Every year, Green Car Reports picks a new car or model line that we feel is the best green car for that new model year. This year, we picked a car that's the all-new version of one that was revolutionary when it was introduced several years ago. The latest version improves on it in pretty much every dimension. This year, the Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2016 is the Chevrolet Volt. DON'T MISS: 2016 Chevrolet Volt First Drive: Plug-In Hybrid Home Run The second generation of the Chevy Volt stays true to the original, and radical, concept of a range-extended electric car. But it also fixes...
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Green Car Reports 2016 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2016 Toyota PriusThe Toyota Prius hybrid occupies a special niche in automotive history. It's the world's best-known and best-selling hybrid car, and it's the halo vehicle for one of the world's three largest automakers. This year, there's an all-new 2016 Prius, and it's quite a different car from its predecessors...
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Green Car Reports 2016 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid And Plug-In Hybrid
Hyundai is widely viewed as one of the most aggressive car companies in the world. In global industry terms, it's relatively young, having designed and sold its first car only in 1975. But the South Korean company has ambitious plans, including many on the green-car front; it wants to have the...
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Green Car Reports 2016 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2016 Honda Civic
It's important to understand how important a car the Honda Civic compact sedan is in the U.S. market. Between the Civic sedan and its coupe sibling, Honda sells more than 300,000 of them a year--or roughly 20 times this year's sales of the Chevy Volt. The Civic nameplate is more than 40 years old...
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Green Car Reports 2016 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2016 Chevrolet Volt
The first Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car won all sorts of awards in 2011, the year it was introduced. But it didn't win that year's Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy award, because we deemed the world's first mass-priced high-volume battery-electric car more significant. That car, the...
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Green Car Reports 2016 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2016 Audi A3 e-Tron
We were impressed by our first drive of the U.S.-spec 2016 Audi A3 e-Tron Sportback, enough so that it's the first of five nominees for our Green Car Reports 2016 Best Car To Buy award. The compact hatchback is powered by a 150-horsepower 1.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine combined with a...
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As promised, we'll be announcing our nominees for the Green Car Reports 2016 Best Car To Buy award this week. But first, it's time note all those candidates that didn't make the final cut. This year, we're explaining why each one isn't on the final nominees list. Remember, to qualify for consideration, a car must be all-new or substantially updated from the previous model year, it must be available for purchase in North America by next April, and at least one High Gear Media editor--preferably several--must have driven and reviewed it by December 1. DON'T MISS: Green Car Reports Best Car To...
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Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2016 Award: Nominees Coming Next Week
We find ourselves, once more, in December, the last month of another year. And that means it's time once more for our annual Best Car To Buy award. Somewhat to our surprise, this is now the sixth time we've chosen the one car or lineup--newly introduced for the coming model year--that represents...
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