Unfortunately, most cars today are built with far more powerful engines than cars from that era. It seems that much of the efficiency improvements of modern engines has been squandered by a drive for ever more power rather than better and better fuel economy. At least a few modern engines can be adapted to our Vanagons and of those few the smaller ones can give us better fuel economy than our stock engines can, at least for those with stock gasoline engine Vanagons. Mark Jim Felder wrote: > The point was probably to reduce, but not necessarily to optimize. There > are vehicles out there that might reach maximum efficiency at 45. All > vehicles may do better at 45 than 55, or they may not. I think they just > picked a number that would save fuel and people could more or less live > with. > > Jim > |
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