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- From: mrmike@geta.life.uiuc.edu (Mike McCaughey)
- Subject: Re: MPG on 4WD's
- References: <1992Jul30.131703.7543@cs.tulane.edu> <singletn-300792104749@b648mac3.larc.nasa.gov>
- Message-ID: <mrmike.712525840@geta>
- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:50:40 GMT
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- singletn@eagle.larc.nasa.gov (Jeff Singleton) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Jul30.131703.7543@cs.tulane.edu>,
- >finnegan@invader.navo.navy.mil (Kenneth Finnegan) wrote:
- >>
-
- <Lots o' stuff deleted>
-
- You guys are spoiled. Let's see, a '90 Trooper @17mpg,
- a '92 Explorer XLT @20-24mpg...geez!
-
- I've got a 79 Jeep Wagoneer with a 360 V8 overbored by 0.030"
- with QuadraTrac full-time 4WD. On a good day with a strong tail wind
- on a dead-flat Illinois highway I get 10 mpg. I don't even like
- to think about city mileage.
-
- Fiddling around to engage the front hubs doesn't seem so bad
- anymore, does it?
-
- > Your mileage may vary.
-
- You bet it does...
-
- > jeff singleton
-
- mrmike
-