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Article: Hybrid limo stretches mileage; 34 m.p.g. Mercury is drawing long looks at livery convention
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 15, 2007
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UNCASVILLE, Conn. - Even in a small sea of over-the-top
limousines, 28-foot-long black Lincolns, and stretched-out Hummers
with not one but three cocktail bars in the back, this was a car that
stood out from the crowd.
What made it unique? An environmentally friendly hybrid engine
that makes this livery-package Mercury Mariner capable of getting 34
miles a gallon in the city, easily triple the mileage of a maxed-out
Hummer.
As limousine-company owners and industry vendors gathered at the
Mohegan Sun casino this week for the LCT Eastern Conference/New
England Livery Association trade show and convention, one of the
showroom-floor vehicles getting its tires kicked the most was the new
Mariner ...