Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 01:13:43 -0500
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
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:

[...]
>
> Y'know, they talk about How They're Getting More Miles Per Gallon... in
> '07, I saw billboards saying how the (downsized from the nineties)
> Corolla got 35 MPG.
>
> 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....

The difference is probably horsepower.  An '86 Tercel probably had
somewhere around (+ or - 10) 100 horsepower.  Your Jetta may have twice
that.

--Ted White