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From: hu@sdcsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Gas Mileage ??
Message-ID: <606@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 14:18:21 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 20 14:18:21 1984
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Organization: EECS Dept., U.C. San Diego
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Here goes mine:
	'79 VW Dasher Diesel Station Wagon.  Last tank--34; highest that
	I remember offhand--42.  My driving consists of daily commutes
	(4 miles 1-way) of city and suburban driving (MPH<~45)
	with occasional longer trips.  I usually get around 35-37.
	Note that this is CITY driving.  My mileage is probably better
	because I live in sunny San Diego (65 degrees?  Brrrrrrr!  I'd
	better put on a ski jacket!).  The transmission is 4-speed
	manual.

In return for good mileage, I lose power and acceleration and top-speed.
(You really feel it when you have four passengers (+me) and the back
filled with luggage and you're climing a hill!)  I would say that the
car is utilitarian to da max.  I does, however, handle well enough to
keep me happy (i.e.  I can burn people on stretches of windy road.
I can't burn the high-performance cars, obviously, unless they're really
poorly driven (which occurs with suprising frequency.  It's amazing how
many people go out and buy a super-expensive, high-performance driving
machine when they can't drive worth sh*t.))  This is getting too long.

					--Alan J. Hu
					  sdcsvax!hu
					
P.S.  Please pardon all the typos and spelling and grammar errors.
I just got out of a three hour math final and I am totaly WASTED.