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Old 06-15-2009, 01:52 PM   #62 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by Nerys View Post
my 82 Goldwing only gets about 30-35mpg then again its 25 years old and has a giant 1.1liter 4 cylinder engine and masses 900 pounds :-)
But my 2000 Insight has a 1.0 liter, 3-cylinder engine, weighs a bit over twice that (1840 lbs IIRC), gets 71.2 mpg (real world average over about 85K miles) - and I can take the dog along with me :-)

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Except in Arizona nevada and kansas etc.. there are no FLAT roads on this planet...
Flat roads in Nevada? Nevada State Route 431 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia sure don't look flat to me :-)
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