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If you own a 2010 Ford Fusion, have three gung-ho friends and would like have Ford pay off the rest of your car payments and give your whole team free gas for a year, then the Fusion41 campaign might be for your. The Blue Oval brand is looking for eight Fusion or Fusion Hybrid owners to make four-person teams for the contest.

Once the teams are formed and selected, Ford will begin tasking the teams with challenges. The contest is set up like a relay race, with the car being passed among each of the team members every 41 hours for three continuous weeks.

By now you're probably wondering what's up with the "41" figure--it's the EPA city...

If you own a 2010 Ford Fusion, have three gung-ho friends and would like have Ford pay off the rest of your car payments and give your whole team free gas for a year, then the Fusion41 campaign might be for your. The Blue Oval brand is looking for eight Fusion or Fusion Hybrid owners to make four-person teams for the contest. Once the teams are formed and selected, Ford will begin tasking the teams with challenges. The contest is set up like a relay race, with the car being passed among each of the team members every 41 hours for three continuous weeks. By now you're probably wondering what's up with the "41" figure--it's the EPA city... Read More

What is it?: Mild hybrid version of the big Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan The basics: Teutonic solidity, impeccable equipment, better fuel economy On sale: This fall Price: $87,950

Exactly one year ago, our editor Marty Padgett wrote about the European launch of the 2009 Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid, the world's first production hybrid car to use lithium-ion cells in its battery.

Our sister site, GreenCarReports.com, is road-testing the new 2010 Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid this weekend, one of the first media outlets to do so. Meanwhile, here are the basics.

Lithium-ion chemistries are capable of storing about twice as much energy per pound as the...

What is it?: Mild hybrid version of the big Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan The basics: Teutonic solidity, impeccable equipment, better fuel economy On sale: This fall Price: $87,950 Exactly one year ago, our editor Marty Padgett wrote about the European launch of the 2009 Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid, the world's first production hybrid car to use lithium-ion cells in its battery. Our sister site, GreenCarReports.com, is road-testing the new 2010 Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid this weekend, one of the first media outlets to do so. Meanwhile, here are the basics. Lithium-ion chemistries are capable of storing about twice as much energy per pound as the... Read More

A couple of months ago, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety conducted fender-bender tests on a handful of minicars and subcompacts. The results weren't encouraging, with most scoring poorly, and only a few landing in the "acceptable" range. Now, the IIHS has conducted a second battery of tests -- this time on midsize sedans -- and unfortunately, the majority of those underperformed expectations, too.

Models tested included the 2009 Honda Accord, the 2009 Hyundai Sonata, the 2009 Mazda 6, and 2009 Nissan Maxima. According to the IIHS, each of those models showed improvement over its 2007 version, but none earned a rating of "good",...

A couple of months ago, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety conducted fender-bender tests on a handful of minicars and subcompacts. The results weren't encouraging, with most scoring poorly, and only a few landing in the "acceptable" range. Now, the IIHS has conducted a second battery of tests -- this time on midsize sedans -- and unfortunately, the majority of those underperformed expectations, too. Models tested included the 2009 Honda Accord, the 2009 Hyundai Sonata, the 2009 Mazda 6, and 2009 Nissan Maxima. According to the IIHS, each of those models showed improvement over its 2007 version, but none earned a rating of "good",... Read More