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Old 09-25-2015, 03:32 PM   #31 (permalink)
Mustang Dave
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'07. Sorry.
No need to apologize.
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According to Wikipedia - which means the information is absolutely reliable - FoMoCo didn't start dropping in the 3.9 until October 7 '03. The ratings were the same, however.

Also according to the Wikipedia Oracle of Irrefutable Facts, the Essex 3.8 owes a tip o' the cap to the Buick V6, since the Blue Oval needed a new middlin' large V6 and didn't have one in the stable, and reverse-engineered the Buick.
It's on the internet; it must be true! I once saw a t-shirt that said, "Wikipedia - you get what you pay for."

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The presence of traffic is the single most complicating factor of hypermiling. I know what I'm going to do, it's contending with whatever the hell all these other people are going to do that makes things hard.

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