Keith Addison wrote: > MH wrote: > > The Lupo caught my attention.
I wish it'd catch everybody's: > ME TOO!!! "A standard production-model German Volkswagen Lupo 3L TDi diesel achieved an average of 118 mpg on a recent round-the-world trip. The Lupo also broke the round-Britain economy record, previously held by a standard Daihatsu Charade diesel at 103 mpg. Volkswagen engineers are working on a super-economical motor that could go 300 miles on only one gallon of fuel." > That could exceed the allusive 200 MPG carburetor on home-brew. And no multi-billion-dollar PNGV handouts either. Japan isn't far behind, also no handouts. And the Big 3 in the US? Can't even make it to 30mpg: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I've had a few cars over the years that have gotten around 40 mpg ÷ Fiat 850 Spyder, Honda Civic, Chevy Sprint, Ford Festiva and my Geo Metro annual average now 46 mpg. I was real disgusted to learn the Chevy Metro mpg dropped to, per DOE-EPA, 36-40 because GM discontinued the 3 cyl engine. After last years increasing fuel prices and ongoing unemployment used economy car popularity, seems to me, accelerates. I wish fuel economy - efficiency would increase but that would cut into the revenues of BIG business, auto, oil, coal, steel, rubber, government, etc. during a time of increased united states/federal government budget deficits while unemployed retraining - education is on the rise. Anyway, I'm happy to hear Japan & VW leads the way and hope European Lupo trends upward. ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
