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I've always been baffled by the lack of progress in increasing MPG for automobiles. my 2001 toyota echo: ~35 mpg my 92 VW cabriolet: ~28 mpg my 2001 ford ran
by evanlivingston 9y ago
I've always been baffled by the lack of progress in increasing MPG for automobiles.
my 2001 toyota echo: ~35 mpg
my 92 VW cabriolet: ~28 mpg
my 2001 ford ranger 4x4: ~25mpg
These vehicles all got better or equivalent of vehicles made 20 years later.
- valuearb 9y ago1992 Golf Cabrio: MPG: 28 city/ 32 highway HP: 110 0-60: 9.5 secs Length: 153" Weight: 2193 lbs 2017 Golf Cabrio: MPG: 25 city/36 highway HP: 170 0-60: 6.6 secs Length: 167" Weight: 3,000 lbs Over the last 25 years the VW Golf has gotten almost 50% larger, is far safer, far more comfortable, far faster, and has basically identical gas mileage.
- evanlivingston 9y agoThis is one of the points of confusion for me. I didn't buy a cabriolet to take kids to and from school, to haul gear around or to beat some other kid in muscle car off the line. Increased safety is a nice, but bigger? faster? I would trade speed any day for better mileage. But apparently better mpg is less of a demand than bigger and faster.
- ibelievenot 9y ago> my 2001 ford ranger 4x4: ~25mpg The 2001 Ranger 4x4 got 17 city / 22 highway mpg, and that was only for the manual transmission