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Old 02-18-2010, 02:03 AM   #43 (permalink)
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Blue - '93 Ford Tempo
Last 3: 27.29 mpg (US)

F150 - '94 Ford F150 XLT 4x4
90 day: 18.5 mpg (US)

Sport Coupe - '92 Ford Tempo GL
Last 3: 69.62 mpg (US)

ShWing! - '82 honda gold wing Interstate
90 day: 33.65 mpg (US)

Moon Unit - '98 Mercury Sable LX Wagon
90 day: 21.24 mpg (US)
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I worked in an engineering department for many years; we designed and developed production vehicles. Whenever someone had a new proposal/idea, it was pretty much always attacked. Sometimes that was a downer, but the upside of it was, you knew you had to have your supporting evidence ready if you were serious about proposing it. Having a bunch of nay-sayers pick it apart actually can help prevent wasting a lot of time on chasing something with a fundamental flaw, or a dead end, or something. And if it has merit, there is the fun of proving all the nay-sayers wrong!

For the time being I will set aside all thoughts, arguements, and notions about the solicitation/production of this car, and focus only on the car. Sound good?

OK then, plug some realistic numbers into the performance calculator on this forum and see what it spits out. This calculator is more grounded in cold hard verifiable science than B.S. and so if it gets quality inputs we should be able to see a quality output.
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