[elky] Re: Monte is gone.
- From: Robert Adams <elcam84@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:20:29 -0500
Exactly. I love driving my friends 3/4 ton 6.0. It's a joy
to drive and I would love one but in town it's more like 12 (a year before
cyl deactivation). But there like you said many other vehicles don't get any
better mileage. The GFs PT cruiser gets 22 on the freeway and lower in town.
A friends same year but auto gets 25+ and has quite a bit more get up and
go. No better than a 1/2 ton truck...
I wonder how much the mileage on some of the larger
vehicles now could be raised by gutting all the extra weight out of them.
Cars have so much crap in them now that people have to have but they don't
realize that stuff adds weight. A mid size or often small car now weighs as
much or more than the 70s cars....
Robert Adams
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:06 AM, CTSVMONGO <ctsvmongo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree- but then you get 15mpg again- That was my big dilemma, it was
> either way too small or the mileage was terrible- nothing that did both- I
> guess it makes sense but wow- an MDX or Ridgeline was rated at 15mpg, so was
> my truck, so where’s the trade off, my truck had the 6.0 that felt like a
> race car when I wanted it to, the MDX had 300hp but didn’t feel like 300hp,
> so the mileage was hard to get over…. Anything with any size gets pretty
> terrible mileage, it would be nice to be able to drive a car like that John!
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> *From:* elky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:elky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Robert Adams
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:40 AM
> *To:* elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [elky] Re: Monte is gone.
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> Well good to hear it has a good home and I did get to ride in it
> before you sold it.
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> I know two people that have Minis. They kinda like them.. Small
> and they get shoved around on the road cause everyone ignores them. One is a
> stick on an auto. The auto gets quite a bit better mileage than the stick
> does. It's in the same league as the PT Cruiser in that the auto gets better
> mileage and has more power cause with that tiny engine it has to have a
> torque converter to get any kind of acceleration. Geri's PT feels like it
> has a 90hp engine cause it's the stick version.
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> I do kind of like the clubman but my days of sitting on the
> ground and crawling out of Tonka big wheels are over. Make that thing about
> 3x as big and I'd want one.
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> Robert Adams
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> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:58 PM, John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> We are waiting for them to install the plates on a brand new Mini Clubman.
> Decided to lease it and write it off on Cindy's company. That way, no car to
> fix. Tires and gas only for 3 years
>
> The Monte went to a real good home. The dude has 2 boys 8 and 12 that will
> be helping him fix it up for car shows. He loved it and was real impressed
> with how well it drove. Laid rubber all the way up the hill. I'll be able
> to see that In the street to remember it by.
> JC
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