"Bill Berckman" > wrote in message
...
> Some interesting or not so interesting trivia. The Aircooled Beetle gets
> around 26-28 miles per gallon. I looked up what the mpg is on a New
> Beetle
> with a 4 cyl and manual trans at http://www.fueleconomy.gov/ The New
> Beetle
> only gets 24 mpg in the city. Maybe that 1930s carburated aircooled
> technology
> is not that bad after all. )

Good figures to have, Bill. Thanks. While almost off-topic, my 99 Taurus
station wagon has a half-ton chassis (same capacity as some Suburbans) and
gets 24.5mpg at 75mph with the air conditioning running! (back on-topic: I
use it to tow Bugs and stuff.)