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Old 12-28-2012, 10:20 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by rickyrocket View Post
I found something that really was a WTF ? moment while cleaning out an old house...a 1979 Popular Mechanics magazine that had an ad for a Ford Fiesta econobox that was advertized to get 55 mpg ! So 33yrs ago they could get better milage than today,of course that had to be smog legislated to death (Thanks Cali)and the new Fiesta gets no where near 55 mpg !
Plus revised (and more accurate) EPA testing methods.
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