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Old 08-29-2008, 08:20 AM   #13 (permalink)
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I am glad BMW is at least thinking about MPG as a feature people might care about. Some folks on the net view that as evidence that hell actually froze over, but the TV isn't a surgical implement that only affects it's target audience, it shotguns the message to everyone watching.

So it's just the hiway mileage figure too, really it is more like 21mpg that they are telling the world is "fuel efficient". I like BMWs as a car historically, but they cannot divorce themselves from their advertising. If they want to say the mileage has dramatically improved over the previous versions then fine, but that wouldn't be terribly accurate either AFAICT. MPG Lip service.
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