Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:20:43 -0500
From: "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: weather preparations
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 1/26/2013 12:28 PM, mark wrote:

> My Dearly Departed Beloved Toyota Tercel wagon, 1986, bought in '88
> used, with a *carburetor*,  in 2000 or 2001, before it died, when I
> tuned it up, was still getting 35-36 mpg. And for some obscure reason,
> our 2005 Jetta wagon, same size about, fuel injected, computer
> controlled, etc, gets, if we're lucky, 31 mpg....

Doesn't a Jetta have better performance (acceleration mostly) than a
Tercel?  As the hot rodders say about their supercharged, stroked and
bored, big V8s: "It will pass anything...except a gas station."

-- Mike B.