[V8] It's a joke and it makes me mad!

[32VQUATTRO]

That's because its just another subsidy for the car manufacturers....at 
least thats what there saying over at FOX news
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com>
To: <v8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 10:32 AM
Subject: [V8] It's a joke and it makes me mad!


> I'm not shopping for a new car, but out of curiosity I checked our two 
> Audis
> against the Cash for Clunkers program.  I am NOT amused, and I think the
> gummint is really losing it.
>
>
>
> Both the V8 and my wife's 100CS Quattro Avant qualify for $4500 toward the
> purchase of a new car.  Amazing.
>
>
>
> I check the fuel mileage in both cars every time I get the cars filled up.
> I make it a point to be the person who fills my wife's car simply because
> the fuel gauge reads so pessimistically that she would be visiting the gas
> station about every other time she drove it.  The 1994 has 145,000 miles 
> on
> it, and gets exactly the same mileage that it got when we first bought it
> with 39,000 miles: around 22 miles per gallon of regular gasoline.  The 
> car
> serves mostly for around town, to the grocery store and so forth, which 
> for
> us means that the car always goes around 4-12 miles each time it is 
> started,
> and there is little that can be called "stop and go" driving here.
>
>
>
> But it is a gas guzzler, I guess.
>
>
>
> Now, my V8 surely must be a guzzler.  I mean, it HAS eight cylinders, 
> right?
>
>
>
>
> Well, same, same for the V8.  I never buy fuel unless I am filling the 
> tank,
> and I check the mileage EVERY time, and it always gets the same:  between 
> 21
> and 25 miles per gallon of regular gas.
>
>
>
> OK.  I know about the EPA cycle.  But I know what I get.
>
>
>
> And when I checked to see if it made any difference depending on which new
> car I bought, man!  Was I ever surprised to see that I could get $4500 for
> my wife's Audi toward a new TEN cylinder S6.
>
>
>
> Somebody's smoking something funny, I think, and it isn't gasoline.
>
>
>
> Roger
>
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