However, if you needed to transport yourself and seven other people to a concert, it would take seven round trips in the 2-passenger Insight to accomplish this, versus one trip in the 8-passenger Navigator.

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The 2013 Nissan LEAF is offered in three well-equipped models, the LEAF S, LEAF SV and LEAF SL. Standard features include a 6-way manual driver's seat, 4-way manual front passenger's seat, trip computer (instant and average energy consumption, driving time, outside temperature and autonomy range), Automatic Temperature Control (ATC), center console storage and 3.6 kW onboard charger.

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Barron hopes that the 600-passenger X Train will make its first trip by NYE 2013, but there are still logistical hurdles to overcome in the in the next year.

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Osha drove the first leg of the trip, which gave me time to assess the passenger side of the vehicle.

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"They served us with smiles, and served us in ways that are truly unthinkable, the things they had to do for us, yet they did it with smiles, " said passenger Joy Dyer, wearing a Triumph bathrobe with "Float Trip 2013" scrawled on the back.

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Further south from Mobor, a trip across the languid Sal on a rust-bucket passenger ferry will take you to solace and solitude on magnificent Agonda Beach with its wide swathe of sand.

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