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Chevrolet is expanding Colorado production to meet anticipated demand.
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Four Special Nissan Leaf Electric Cars To Celebrate 4 Years On SaleSee four special Nissan Leaf electric cars from the first four years on sale.
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2015 Chevrolet Colorado, GMC Canyon Four-Cylinder Gas Mileage: 21 Or 22 MPG Combined
GM released four-cylinder gasoline fuel-economy estimates for its new mid-size trucks.
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World's First Nissan Leaf Electric Pickup Truck, For Shop Use Only (Video)
Nissan adds a pickup bed to the Leaf electric car for an unusual project.
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Aluminum-Bodied 2015 Ford F-150 Pickup Truck: Buyers Intrigued, Report Says
A new study finds customers are interested in Ford's new aluminum-bodied truck.
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2015 Ford F-150 Gas Mileage: What We Know So Far
The Ford F-150 full-size pickup is the best-selling single nameplate in the U.S. market, so any changes to Ford's premier truck mean a lot. Buyers, dealers, and the whole industry are paying close attention to information about the next generation 2015 Ford F-150, the first all-new design of Ford's...
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It doesn't get much attention as a green vehicle, but the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck line is the best-selling vehicle line at General Motors. Now there's a zero-emission version, and it's available today. That means that you can acquire one even before this spring's launch of the all-new models with more efficient V-6 and V-8 gasoline engines. There's a slight catch, of course. As you might expect, this one is considerably lighter--and dimensionally more compact--than the versions fitted with gasoline engines. Surprisingly, its design is flatter and blockier than the carefully...
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GM To Offer Not One, But Two, Smaller Pickups: El Camino Too?
Usually Ford and GM follow the same playbook for their pickup trucks. But in pursuit of higher fuel economy goals, the two may diverge in years to come. While Ford is fitting more fuel-efficient EcoBoost turbocharged V-6 engines to its pickup trucks, it has no plans to offer any pickup smaller than...
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2013 Chevy, GMC Natural Gas Bi-Fuel Pickup Trucks Announced
General Motors announced today it will offer bi-fuel versions of its 2013 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks that run either on gasoline or natural gas. The two trucks are the 2500 HD (heavy duty) model, and can be ordered in rear-wheel or four-wheel drive and with a standard or long...
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Diesel Land Speed Record: 171 MPH In A Ford F-250 Pickup!
There are lots of different Land Speed Record categories, and each year one or two of them fall to new challengers. So it's not surprising that new records for production diesel and biodiesel trucks were set this weekend at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. What is surprising is the vehicle that...
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Chrysler To Join Honda In Selling Natural-Gas Cars...In 2017
Ask anyone to name an alternate fuel, and natural gas is rarely the first one that comes to mind. Ethanol, perhaps, and increasingly electricity. But natural gas? Not so much. Yet in other parts of the world, as many as 2 percent of the vehicles on the road are fueled by natural gas, in countries...
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One-Third Of 2011 Ford F-150 Pickups Sold With V-6
MPGs matter, it turns out, even to pickup buyers. Or, perhaps especially to pickup truck buyers. Just four months after Ford added an EcoBoost engine option to its top-selling F-150 pickup truck, the company reports that fully 35 percent of the 2011 model's sales are fitted with either that...
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