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

[Scott DeWitt]

After looking for several days reviewing different vehicles and cross referencing other fuel economy reviews by non government sources, fueleconomy.gov appears to be biased toward American manufactured cars, listing them as having higher mileage figures versus similarly sized and equipped foreign cars. Does anyone know exactly how these new "Combined" fuel economy figures are concocted?


---- John Bysinger <doog at bysinger.net> wrote: 
> 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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