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The list includes both expensive and budget models New cars begin to depreciate as soon as the owner drives them off the dealer's lot. But some makes and models hold their original value better than others. A new study from iSeeCars has revealed which used cars have fallen in price the least over the past five years. The leader is the Porsche 911, which has fallen on average by only 9.3%, or $18,094, since 2018. Second place went to the Porsche 718 Cayman, which lost 17.6%. [caption id="attachment_82388" align="aligncenter" width="780"] iSeeCars[/caption] iSeeCars analyzed the prices of more than a million cars Third place goes to the Toyota Tacoma, which fell in price by 20.4%, followed by the Jeep Wrangler (20.8%), and the top five is rounded out by the Honda Civic (21.5%). The ranking also includes much more affordable models, including the Subaru BRZ, Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang, which occupy 6th, 7th and 11th places, respectively. Toyota is well represented in the rankings, with the RAV4, Tacoma, Tundra, Corolla and C-HR all in the top 20. The list also includes inexpensive Kia Rio, Chevrolet Spark and Honda HR-V. The iSeeCars study analyzed 1.1 million used 2018 model year vehicles sold between November 2022 and October 2023. The report does not include low-volume models, and also excludes heavy-duty pickups, vans and models discontinued for the 2022 model year. On average, the 25 2018 makes and models with the best five-year depreciation lost 38.8% of their value, or $17,221. [caption id="attachment_82389" align="aligncenter" width="480"] iSeeCars[/caption]

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Better efficiency, too! Gripen air time costs around 4000€/h, where most cars cost around $car_price/$drop_time to fly.

There is a great tragedy at the core of our automotive industry. Saab, our beautiful Saab, lies dead. Beancounters and the automotive press conspired to make the oddball front-drive turbocharged mad scientists who kept inventing things even when it didn’t make any sense a failure. Now we all zip around in modern-day future cars derived from their innovations, without a thought.

Sure, Saab is still “alive,” if you can call it that, a trademark and skin stretched over whatever desperate Chinese or Swedish government-owned sub-volume automaker has bought it this week. They’re making electric cars. No, hydrogen. No, nothing at all. Wait, maybe electric cars again, but slightly different. No, electric cars again, but big ones, the size of a bus. Two buses! They look like jets now. We can’t decide.

How many people are still employed by Saab? Ever since their Trollhättan offices had that witch’s spell cast on them and shifted into the Sidescape, it has been difficult to know for sure. Morale is not great: competitors are often flummoxed as a Saab employee suddenly materializes in their breakroom, the air displaced by their instant arrival knocking papers off the photocopier and coffee to the ground, ready for an interview. They cannot talk about the projects they have been working on, at least not in a language that the rest of us can still understand. Everyone admits, however, that some of the ideas they draw out on the whiteboard, prior to their sudden disappearance at the conclusion of the interview, are pretty good.

We may never know when Saab will release another car again. It may arrive at any moment, like their employees, complete with an accompanying fully-functional dealership on the outskirts of town, its sodium lamps eye-searingly bright in the night despite no obvious source of electrical supply being present. Everyone will agree that the cars are a little weird, a little ahead of their time, and just a little bit too risky to actually purchase. And Saab, our beautiful Saab, will dissolve back into the ether, leaving us with a bunch of cars we can’t figure out how to fix but desperately need to.

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Chery continues to reduce prices Chery Tiggo 8 Pro Max, the company's flagship crossover, has become significantly more affordable in Russia. The Dreamline version now costs 4,160,000 rubles, which is 300,000 rubles cheaper than before. The Ultimate version has a price of 4,651,000 rubles. The car received a modified 2-liter gasoline turbo engine with a power of 197 hp. and a seven-speed preselective “robot”. These improvements made the car faster and more economical. [caption id="attachment_83818" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Chery fell in price[/caption] The flagship Chery fell in price by 300,000 rubles at once In addition, the Tiggo 8 Pro Max is equipped with a new all-wheel drive system from ZF instead of the BorgWarner system. This system sends torque only to the front wheels to save fuel, but the driver can choose from six driving modes, including Eco, Comfort, Sport, Snow, Dirt and the versatile 4x4. . The updated Tiggo 8 Pro Max accelerates in 8.4 seconds to 100 km/h, top speed is 210 km/h, and consumption is 8.3 liters per 100 km in the combined cycle. Before this, the company reduced the price of Tiggo 7 Pro Max, another popular Chery model in Russia.

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For $3200 An Australian student has just won a prestigious award for his conversion kit, which can turn internal combustion engine cars into hybrids at a meager cost. He claims that its design allows for bolt-on installations to be completed in one day. The issue price is only $3,200. [caption id="attachment_73709" align="aligncenter" width="780"] cars[/caption] The auto industry is moving toward electrification, but the challenge of reducing carbon emissions is here to stay. ICE cars, which existed before and even during the transition to green cars, are not going away anytime soon. The startup Rapid Electric Vehicle Retrofits will offer owners the opportunity to electrify their cars for a small fee. According to Alexander Burton of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the key to its success is its special pancake-shaped axial flux motor. It bolts to the wheel hub and has a rotating plate between the brake rotor and the wheel. Burton says each engine can produce 67 hp. A student has invented a cheap way to convert cars with internal combustion engines into hybrids He's testing a prototype in his Toyota Corolla - the motors are mounted to the rear wheels, and the "standard battery" with a capacity of 15 kWh is located where the spare tire would normally be. At the same time, the power reserve on all-electric traction is about 100 km. https://youtu.be/uKVVpbvDMN0 During the tests, the system was not connected to the internal combustion engine at all, but it could operate simultaneously to reduce the amount of fuel burned by the engine. In full EV mode, the system will keep the 12-volt battery charged and power the lights, air conditioning, etc. However, Burton needs to refine some parts of the design.