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  World's Most Dangerous Roads Back With a Vengeance 14 Jun 2012 (News)
  They quickly learn not to turn off the engine and refuel on the move, as failure to do so would rapidly result in frozen fuel, a cracked engine block and hypothermia for the humans. Travellers regularly die on this road when they run out of fuel or break down. It's a difficult drive from the start and the comics end up skidding off the road into the ditch on their very first day.
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  Scrappage brings New Suzukis Down to £4,795 12 May 2009 (News)
  The Alto is the cleanest five-door City car on sale in the UK with emissions of just103g/km, 64mpg fuel consumption and £35 Annual Road Tax. The Swift 1.3 GL three-door is available for a down payment of £625 with 0% APR finance, payable over two years. Driveplan Personal Contract Purchase (PCP) now includes Alto – available from just £89 per month.
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  Jaguar recognised For Exceptional Dependability by J.D. Power 19 Mar 2009 (News)
  "Just this year we've introduced two outstanding new engine series that set the standard for performance, fuel economy and emissions, while our new super high-performance models, the XFR and XKR, are getting excellent reviews from the world's motoring writers. "Stand-out design, stunning performance and superb dependability – This Is The New Jaguar!"
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  HONDA TO LAUNCH JAZZ HYBRID 21 May 2008 (News)
  Its strengths will be good fuel efficiency, manoeuvrability, comfort and styling. Production costs will be significantly reduced with the new control unit and battery made lighter and more compact. A thinner motor is also being produced in an improved manufacturing facility at Honda's Suzuka plant.
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  Toyota Prius Avoids Congestion Charging 16 May 2002 (News)
  TransportAction PowerShift is a government-funded initiative run by the Energy Saving Trust, which aims to create a sustainable market in the UK for vehicles which run on clean fuels such as LPG, natural gas and electricity. Since it was started in 1996, the programme has helped place 12,000 clean fuel vehicles on UK roads. The PowerShift demonstration project programme is designed to make support funding available to assist projects involving near market-ready clean fuel vehicle and engine technologies.
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  New Hyundai i20 revealed: tech-heavy small car to rival Ford Fiesta 20 Feb 2020 (News)
  Set to compete against the popular Ford Fiesta as well as value alternatives like the Skoda Fabia and Kia Rio, the new i20 will be sold in the UK solely with a 1.0-litre turbocharged petrol engine producing 100PS. This uses a 48-volt mild-hybrid system to provide an improvement of fuel economy of around three per cent, says Hyundai - although official MPG figures are yet to be confirmed. As standard, the petrol engine will be paired with a new six-speed manual gearbox capable of decoupling the engine from the transmission when the driver lifts off the accelerator, allowing the car to coast and save fuel.
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  A Grand Monday: Vauxhall Nova 10 Mar 2014 (News)
  What’s more, it has tax until the end of April and eight months left on its MoT. We also think there’s room to negotiate on the asking price, with a faulty fuel gauge listed in the advert. The big bugbear of the Nova was rusty wheelarches, but this hatchback looks clean and solid from its pictures, with striking red paintwork and original hubcaps. Nova hatchback models are becoming quite rare now, with many lost in accidents to inexperienced drivers or the whims of GTE enthusiasts.
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  Paris Motor Show 2012: SEAT debuts the new Leon 27 Sep 2012 (News)
  Prices start at £15,670, rising to £22,375 for the FR TDI.  The lighter weight helps towards lower emissions and better fuel economy. The Ecomotive model will achieve sub-100g/km emissions and official economy of 74.3mpg, meaning zero annual VED and congestion charge exemption. Economy improvements aren’t restricted to the Ecomotive model, though – the rest of the range benefits from better fuel economy too, despite increased peformance.
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  Michelin Energy Saver Tyre is 'Which?' Best Buy 13 Apr 2012 (News)
  magazine, rated summer tyres in all main areas of performance including wet and dry handling and braking, external drive-by noise, fuel consumption and wear. The Michelin Energy Saver is the Company’s fourth generation of “green” car tyres which replaced the previous Energy range and is designed to improve fuel consumption, and thus reduce CO 2 emissions, by reducing rolling resistance.
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  2009 was worst years for used car sales 12 Mar 2010 (News)
  All of these cars suffered a drop in sale, while BMW was the only manufacturer to enjoy a rise in used car sales throughout 2009. Alternative fuel and hybrid-powered cars become more popular in 2009, helped by rising fuel prices. However, used cars aged between 0- and 3-years old also endured lower sales as the scrappage scheme encouraged more buyers to purchase a new car instead of a used one.
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  New Engines and Specs for Alfa 156 8 Jun 2002 (News)
  JTS stands for Jet Thrust Stoichiometric. Alfa has abandoned twin spark plugs in favour of directly injecting the fuel air mixture to the combustion chamber, running at lean burn to 1,500rpm and a stoichiometric 14.7:1 air:fuel mixture thereafter. Compression ration is raised to 11.3:1, power is up 15bhp and torque up 18 lb ft. 156 JTSs start at £17,720 for the saloon and £18,820 for the Sportwagon.
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  Top 10: Most popular cars on the road 1 Jun 2016 (News)
  The UK car market is booming as thousands of buyers t ake advantage of record low rates on finance, lower fuel prices and a glut of new models. As a result, n ew registrations  are at a 10-year high and  2.4 million cars were sold in the UK in 2014, a rise of 10 per cent on 2013.  We've crunched the DVLA numbers to find the UK's 10 most popular models and the results will surprise you, because the list doesn't include a single SUVs or crossover.
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  Teenage Special Citroen C2 Just £7,758 29 Apr 2005 (News)
  New 1.1i C2 Furio comes with low Group 2E insurance, and 'We Pay The VAT' discounted price of £7,758. 61bhp 1.1 engine offers combined fuel economy of almost 50 mpg. Kit include rear spoiler, fog lights, colour-coded mouldings, two-tone bolstered sports seats, leather bound steering wheel, CD player, ABS with EBD and EBA, four airbags, remote central locking with deadlocks, as well as electric front windows and door mirrors.
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  Honest John's Motoring Agony Column 16-5-2015 16 May 2015 (News)
  Or, if you always obtained your fuel from a single supplier, do you want to pursue the fuel station, which has already denied any water in its fuel? It is possible that if the vehicle was filled with high percentage biofuel (which has a higher water content) and left for a long time unused, then condensation created the water in the fuel.
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  Hyundai gets into the funeral business, BMW's political roundel badges and a SEAT Leon with a 10,000-mile range 1 Apr 2010 (News)
  A handy luggage space sits atop the extra-large fuel tank, meaning the Leon Ecomotive Prototype remains as practical as it is economical. Other important revisions have been made to the SEAT's standard suspension set-up of course, allowing it to maintain its sporty handling while carrying the increased fuel load.
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  Toyota Gets Serious About Solar Power 5 Jul 2019 (News)
  Unlike plug-in electric cars, solar power has the potential to provide greater range with smaller batteries so could be the breakthrough to free fuel for every car on the roads. Toyota Motor Corporation in collaboration with NEDO, Sharp Corporation today announced a plan to start public road trials from late July 2019 to assess improvements in the cruising range and fuel efficiency of electrified vehicles equipped with high-efficiency solar batteries.
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  SEAT removes all optional extras from its range 15 Aug 2018 (News)
  As well as making the car buying process easier for the customer, complex WLTP changes to official fuel economy tests mean individual factory options could change the CO2 output of the car. By scrapping all factory options, it reduces confusing variations in fuel economy and CO2 emissions. Easy Move has been rolled out across SEAT's range now with 2019 models available to order. On Ibiza, Leon, Arona, and Ateca models, trim levels begin with SE, and move into comfort-based Xcellence and sporty FR.
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  Petrol prices set to overtake diesel next week 4 Sep 2017 (News)
  Crude oil production in the Gulf of Mexico is down 13.5 per cent. In response, oil traders are acting to redirect fuel to the US ahead of the busy Labor Day weekend surge in travel. The price of a barrel of crude oil has also increased to $52.79 following the storm. RAC spokesman Pete Williams said: "The average price of a litre of unleaded on Thursday 31 August was 117.29p and diesel was 118.14p but we could see unleaded rise in the coming days to around 121p-per-litre, with diesel likely to stay stable around 118.5p."
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  A Grand Monday: Austin Maestro 1.6HLS 5 Jan 2015 (News)
  The body is in good condition and the car has not been welded underneath... yet. As you’d expect, the metal isn’t perfect. The fuel filler pocket is corroded, which could be a problem – we’d want to make sure that rust flakes haven’t been finding there way into the fuel tank, ready to cause havoc inside the engine.
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  Report: Peking to Paris, day 19 15 Jun 2013 (News)
  There were few incidents to report today, the first being car 27, the Chrysler Imperial - Monte Gingery and Phil Puttnam stopped on a gravel section with fuel issues, which turned out to be a dose of bad petrol – he had taken on fuel laced with water, but was soon motoring again with the help of a Mr Funnel water separator and a carb’ clean. The Bentley of car 8, Lars and Annette Rolner, were in deep trouble, and calling for a truck to take them to Samara after developing wheel-bearing problems.