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Originally Posted by hu_man
I still can not figure it my Morris is almost 50 years old had 5 wires going to the engine, good heavy sheet metal and still got 44mpg at 55mph. And today with multi valves, aluminum, plastic, computers, engineers....on and on and we are still hovering around 30mpg on a good day.
Hugh
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Compare apples to apples: your Morris (Minor, I assume?) weighed about 1700 lbs. Today's 30 mpg car weighs twice that. OTOH, my Insight weighs in at about 1850, and has averaged 71.2 mpg over the 6 years I've owned it. At 55-65 mph on the level it can (with a good road surface and no headwind) be running anywhere between 90-120 mpg or so.