Word: fording
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...list price starts at $23,000 for the V-6 LS model and tops out at $31,000 for the top-of-the-line SS and its V-8. From its inception, in 1967, the Camaro was an affordable sports-muscle car, the brawny response to Ford's revolutionary Mustang. Ford's car was stylish, even cute. Women bought it. But the Camaro had that bad-boy look, and the interior was pretty basic. To many of its buyers, the Camaro was a platform, a sleek sled on which to load one of those muscle engines that GM used...
...goosing the economy and helping automakers, the current program requires new-car purchases and doesn't mandate huge jumps in gas mileage. Happily, the first wave of buyers opted for cars more fuel-efficient than the law demands. The top three sellers in the first week were the Ford Focus, Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic (all made in the U.S. but with lots of foreign parts). Now the turned-in vehicles (the Ford Explorer led the list) are headed for the scrapyard, but only after their engines are snuffed with a solution of liquid glass (sodium silicate) to keep them...
...comparison, Toyota's fuel-sipping Prius hybrid looks like an outright gas hog at 51 m.p.g. (city), and the Honda Insight hybrid appears ready for the cash-for-clunkers program at 41 m.p.g. Ditto for the Ford Fusion hybrid (41 m.p.g./city) and Toyota's Camry Hybrid (40 m.p.g./city...
...energy consumed so we can figure out how much greenhouse gas is being emitted into the air." That is, the industry may be moving from miles per gallon to miles per bucket of soot or, in ARB's case, grams of CO2 per mile. For example, ARB rates a Ford Explorer at 400 grams of CO2 per mile for greenhouse-gas emissions. A Toyota Prius is rated at 200 grams per mile...
...Just One More Chance In 1955, the first official year of rock 'n' roll, the hits stopped coming. A nice married couple was suddenly sooooo 1954. Paul looked less like a genius-guitarist than an irrelevant uncle. Paul and Ford did commercials for the Robert Hall clothing chain ("When the values go up, up, up/ And the prices go down, down, down") and Rheingold Beer. They broke up the act - and their marriage. (Ford died at 52 in 1976.) Paul pretty much retired. He survived quintuple-bypass heart surgery. It was one of the first operations of its kind - another...