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

[John Bysinger]

I too went and looked out of curiosity, and for those that haven't looked
the program is rating our cars at 14mpg.  They list my 83 CJ-7 as a 17mpg
vehicle (well an '84 does, my 83 is one year too old to quality.)

Back in reality I get 20 in the v8 and 15 in the jeep.  I don't get it.  But
I wouldn't disagree with the subsidy explanation either.

-John
'90V8Q

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:12 AM, 32VQUATTRO <ALLANVEGA at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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