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Ford’s Fusion Hybrid was named Car of the Year at the International Auto Show in Detroit<\/a>, with the American automaker’s Transit Connect following suit and taking Truck of the Year, Freep.com reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Fusion Hybrid<\/a>, which jurors said drove “more like a normal car than many hybrids,” sold 22.4% more units in 2009 year over year, totaling 180,671 vehicles.<\/p>\n Roughly 20% of the Fusions that Ford sold in 2009 were hybrids<\/a>, according to the company.<\/p>\n The Transit Connect, a commercial van that was released just this past summer, is targeted for sale to small businesses, and starts at $20,780. It gets 22 m.p.g. in the city and 25 m.p.g. on the highway.<\/p>\n According to GreenCarReports.com<\/a>, Ford<\/span> plans to release limited numbers of an electric version of the Transit Connect in 2010, which will start at $21,475.<\/p>\n See Also: Check Out The Concept Cars Of The Future Unveiled At The Detroit Auto Show<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Join the conversation about this story »<\/a><\/p>\n See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n Ford’s Fusion Hybrid was named Car of the Year at the International Auto Show in Detroit, with the American automaker’s Transit Connect following suit and taking Truck of the Year, Freep.com reports. The Fusion Hybrid, which jurors said drove “more like a normal car than many hybrids,” sold 22.4% more units in 2009 year over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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