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Consumer Reports Cited Fuel Efficient Suvs

With the prices of gas and fuel increasing steadily, consumers tend to turn their backs on the sport utility vehicle (SUV) market. Sports utility vehicles after all has a reputation for being gas guzzlers and that is why most consumers now opt for more fuel efficient smaller cars like a sedan or a coupe. But the versatility and the loading capacity of an SUV is hard to match, even by large sedans. That is why Consumer Reports came out with a list of the most fuel efficient SUVs to...

Lutz Says Fuel Economy Killed Some Gm Concept Cars

General Motors Corp. Product Chief Bob Lutz said that the company has killed some of its concept-car ideas because of an increased emphasis on fuel economy and sensitivity over the automaker's public image. Lutz, speaking during a video podcast on GM's Web site released over the weekend, said that the company has "arranged our priorities on now getting more fuel efficient, (and) spending a lot more money on alternative(s)." Those alternatives include hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, and...

Saturn Fuel Filter: Against Grit

A Saturn Fuel filter is one of those seemingly mysterious components that one may find in and within the innards of one's Saturn. The automotive engine system is a marvelous thing and it is even made more so by the fact that the whole of the parts succeed in contributing to the work of the whole. The Saturn Fuel Filter is one such part. Why does the Saturn fuel filter deserve this degree of attention, one may ask? For those who do not know what the fuel filter is all about—of what...