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In this, the 70th year of the Jeep product (if not the actual nomenclature), Moab's scenic backdrop is the perfect stage to review all that Jeep is - and has been - on the American landscape.

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While much has been made about VW?s decontenting efforts to reach its vaunted 800,000-units-shifted-stateside-by-?18 goal, zee Germans have been on a bit of a Rennsport-inspired tear in the rest of the world, unveiling the Polo R WRC car and trotting out an inline-5-powered Golf to compete at the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring in June. [...]

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This just in: the longer your daily commute, the less likely you are to be happy, healthy and even married for any length of time. A new study by researchers at Umea University in Sweden proved that commuters who drive more than 45 minutes each way are 40 percent likelier to divorce than those with shorter commutes. The study failed to identify...

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On Tuesday, we posted an audio recording of a mystery car?s exhaust note. To hear it again, click play above. Only a few of you who commented figured out that this week?s sound came from the Lotus Evora S, although most of you correctly identified that the sound was from a six-cylinder engine. Like that [...]

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We’ve just caught a mule of Ford’s upcoming Focus ST as it heads into testing at the Nürburgring in Germany. While the body is stock Focus, the Brobdingnagian wheels and the center-mounted exhaust tell us that this is definitely the 247-hp, 260-lb-ft hot hatch. We expect Ford’s answer to the VW GTI to arrive in [...]

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Volkswagen is going green with the color blue with its new Think Blue environmental-consciousness initiative, which plays off the brand?s successful ?Think Small? Beetle ads from the 1960s and is intended to educate the masses about eco-friendly practices that can be applied in daily life. VW itself is getting in on the blue thinking: The [...]

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Once a stubby hatchback, the C-class two-door returns as a proper coupe. Worldwide, the bestselling Mercedes-Benz cars are the C-class sedan and wagon. But since the CLK ascended the Mercedes product hierarchy to become the E-class coupe, the marketing folk in Stuttgart think there?s even more sales potential in the C range. And that?s why [...]

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Modern motorcycles use all manner of technological trickery to extract maximum performance from minimum engine displacement. But every now and then a manufacturer goes against the grain and decides to keep it simple: the TU250X from Suzuki is one of those bikes.

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Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Legislation and Policy, Th!nk (Think), USA

Are you ready for Think's so-called "significant announcement?" Ready or not, here it is:

Think, the world's leading dedicated electric vehicle manufacturer, announced that it was awarded a contract to supply pure electric, zero-emission vehicles to the federal government. With a contract in hand from the U.S. General Services Administration, Think is now open for business to the thousands of federal agencies that purchase or lease vehicles through the GSA each year.

That announcement sort of squashes rumors that Think either landed a major investor, would make management changes, revise its production goals or even ink out a joint venture.

Lizabeth Ardisana, Think's director of sales, says that:

If you want to sell vehicles to fleets, it's imperative to be on the GSA contract. This is a game-changing contract for Think.

Let us hope that this game-changing contract guides Think through the choppy waters that it may encounter in the months that lie ahead. Hat tip to Mart!

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