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Old 10-14-2010, 09:24 PM   #170 (permalink)
ShadeTreeMech
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The Van - '97 Mercury Villager gs
90 day: 19.8 mpg (US)

Lyle the Kindly Viking - '99 Volvo V70
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....Chrysler started going into the red sometime around the 70s gas crunch.

What type of vehicle will a bankrupt company make?

I regularly work on a 90 dodge B250 van whose idiotic engineering exerts itself every time I attempt to keep it running and on the road, instead of the junkyard I rescued it from 4 years ago.
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I think you missed the point I was trying to make, which is that it's not rational to do either speed or fuel economy mods for economic reasons. You do it as a form of recreation, for the fun and for the challenge.