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Lawrence Tech’s high performance hybrid electric diesel, a heavily modified Ford Taurus, won the National Championship in the 2000 Tour de Sol, a rugged test of highway driving between New York City and Washington, D.C. The student team achieved nearly 80 mpg while still maintaining all the driver and passenger comforts inherent in a five-passenger sedan.

 


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