Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:27:44 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: weather preparations
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 01/27/13 01:13, Ted White wrote:
> 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.

Possibly... but I'd take somewhat less power for more mileage.

mark

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