On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Art McGinn wrote: > my '82 van, stick shift, gets a miserable 10-11 mpg in the city (s.f.) > and 19-21 on the freeway. apparent reason for the lousy city mileage is that > it spends most of its time in slow-moving stop-and-go traffic, rarely > getting into even 4th gear. art Automatics get lousy city milage because they slip a lot at low speeds. I used to have a 1990 Ford Econoline that got similar numbers in town. Freeway milage was more like 16 mpg, though. _ _ __ _ _ _| | | | David M. Brodbeck (N8SRE) Ypsilanti, MI / _` | | | | | | +----------------------------------------------------- | (_| | |_| | | | @ cyberspace.org \__, |\__,_|_|_| "...we're not getting the creeps who knocked the |___/ buildings down. We're getting the creeps whose address we know." -- Maureen Dowd |
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