Consumer Reports isn't giving all-electric cars and climate change a lot of attention

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Honda will be the next automaker to market an all-electric car as Toyota continues to sit on the sidelines. -- HACKENSACK, N.J. By VICTOR E. SASSON EDITOR Consumer Reports seems to have a blind spot for all-electric cars. The magazine's annual Auto Issue, just out, picks the 10 best new cars for 2017, but all of them use gasoline. For a full report, see: Consumer Reports smells (of gasoline)
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Enormous, gas-guzzling Range Rover is an elegant way to say F.U. to the environment

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Land Rover's overweight Range Rover is powered by a supercharged V-6 engine that returns a combined 19 mpg in city and highway driving. A dirtier turbocharged diesel returns a combined 25 mpg. A long-wheelbase model with a supercharged V-8 gets a combined 16 mpg.

Land Rover vehicles finished 28th in J.D. Power's 2016 auto dependability study, with an average of 198 problems per 100 vehicles, a loss of two places when compared to the 2015 study.

MSRPs range from $84,950 to $139,995.


-- VICTOR E. SASSON


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