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"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.) |
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