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These Are the 15 Most Reliable Cars on the Road in the US

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A new study has listed the 15 most reliable cars for American drivers based on how long consumers keep their vehicles on the road before trading them in, and the results may surprise you.

The results were tallied by iSeeCars.com, according to the U.K. Daily Mail.

Japanese car models reportedly ruled the top spots, with Toyota dominating the top five.

The Daily Mail reported that the Toyota Hylander came in at number one, as more than 18 percent of original owners have kept this car on the road for 15 years or more.

Vehicles rounding out the rest of the top five are the Sienna, Tundra, Prius, and RAV 4 models.

Fellow Japanese automaker Honda breaks Toyota’s streak with the Odyssey, a minivan making the number six spot.

Along with Toyota and Honda, Acura, Subaru and Nissan all made the list, while German automaker Volkswagen snagged the 15th spot with their Golf model, cementing them the only non-Japanese car manufacturer to break the top fifteen.

ISeeCars reportedly researched some 650,000 cars, according to the Daily Mail.

The cars ranged from model years 1981-2002.

“While a decade on the road used to be a significant milestone for vehicle life expectancy, the elevated quality of cars being produced has raised this standard to beyond ten years,” said Phong Ly, CEO of the ISeeCars, in a statement to the Mail.

“Japanese automakers are known for setting quality and reliability standards, so it is no surprise that they are the most likely to reach the 15-year milestone.” he continued.

Notably, the only hybrid model vehicle to appear was the Toyota Prius.

Ly asserted that drivers of hybrid vehicles will be more inclined to keep their cars going longer, in an effort to compensate for the higher up front cost of owning a battery powered car.

“Hybrid owners have the added incentive to keep their cars on the road for longer in order to accrue fuel savings to offset the increased upfront cost of these vehicles, Ly told The Daily Mail.

He continued “Despite consumers’ concerns about battery durability and the associated high replacement cost, its appearance on the list shows that the reliability of the Prius measures up to Toyota’s conventional fuel counterparts.”

American made vehicles were surprisingly absent from the list, with the Daily Mail pointing out that while American pick-up trucks were reportedly “close to average,” they were still outmatched by Japan’s Toyota Tundra.

Below is a list of the top 15 vehicles.

Toyota Highlander (18.3%)
Toyota Sienna (17.1%)
Toyota Tundra (15.7%)
Toyota Prius (15.0%)
Toyota RAV4 (14.3%)
Honda Odyssey (12.8%)
Toyota Sequoia (12.8%)
Toyota Tacoma (12.4%)
Honda CR-V (11.9%)
Toyota Avalon (11.7%)
Acura MDX (11.6%)
Toyota Camry (11.5%)
Subaru Forester (11.5%)
Nissan Frontier (11.0%)
Volkswagen Golf (10.6%)

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Democrats Want to Ban Gas-Powered Cars

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France and the United Kingdom are doing it. So is India. And now one lawmaker would like California to follow their lead in phasing out gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles.

When the Legislature returns in January, Assemblyman Phil Ting plans to introduce a bill that would ban the sale of new cars fueled by internal-combustion engines after 2040. The San Francisco Democrat said it’s essential to get California drivers into an electric fleet if the state is going to meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets, since the transportation sector accounts for more than a third of all emissions.

“The market is moving this way. The entire world is moving this way,” Ting said. “At some point you need to set a goal and put a line in the sand.” (Read more from “Democrats Want to Ban Gas-Powered Cars” HERE)

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Child Miners Aged Four Living a Hell on Earth So YOU Can Drive an Electric Car

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Picking through a mountain of huge rocks with his tiny bare hands, the exhausted little boy makes a pitiful sight.

His name is Dorsen and he is one of an army of children, some just four years old, working in the vast polluted mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where toxic red dust burns their eyes, and they run the risk of skin disease and a deadly lung condition. Here, for a wage of just 8p a day, the children are made to check the rocks for the tell-tale chocolate-brown streaks of cobalt – the prized ingredient essential for the batteries that power electric cars.

And it’s feared that thousands more children could be about to be dragged into this hellish daily existence – after the historic pledge made by Britain to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2040 and switch to electric vehicles.

It heralds a future of clean energy, free from pollution but – though there can be no doubting the good intentions behind Environment Secretary Michael Gove’s announcement last month – such ideals mean nothing for the children condemned to a life of hellish misery in the race to achieve his target.

Dorsen, just eight, is one of 40,000 children working daily in the mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The terrible price they will pay for our clean air is ruined health and a likely early death. (Read more from “Child Miners Aged Four Living a Hell on Earth So YOU Can Drive an Electric Car” HERE)

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