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Originally Posted by SentraSE-R
ROFL! One of the undocumented benefits of hypermiling (POing the gendarmes). If you get 35 mpg, I'm going to wish for a 3.5 engine transplant into my SE-R  . |
having never heard of gendarmes
I looked it up. According to the wiki
A member of a gendarmerie; the word is often incorrectly used in English to refer to any French policeman
It seems I have to look up a lot of things while reading this forum. Talk about becoming more educated!