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To: Red Badger
My 1986 gas Jetta got 40mpg, and gas is cheaper than diesel. How is this revolutionary?
3 posted on 08/21/2008 7:19:35 AM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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To: SampleMan

I owned a 1998 TDI that regularly got 50 MPG. Only problem with VW is that the car falls apart around the engine.

Must be the anti-pollution gear that drives the MPG down.


5 posted on 08/21/2008 7:23:05 AM PDT by PJammers (I can't help it... It's my idiom!)
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To: SampleMan

Your ‘86 Jetta cannot pass the environmental regs of 2009............


6 posted on 08/21/2008 7:23:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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“Clean” diesel is the key.........


7 posted on 08/21/2008 7:23:33 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Congress would steal the nickels off a dead man's eye's...............)
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To: SampleMan

My 91 fox GL also got 40+ highway with regular gas.. but apparently changes to build safety requirements would make such a car illegal to sell today and the added weight cuts down on mileage.


10 posted on 08/21/2008 7:25:46 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: SampleMan

I had a few diesel Rabbits & Jettas years ago and they got pretty good mileage too. I thought I heard something about VW bringing out a 70 MPG diesel?


14 posted on 08/21/2008 7:45:03 AM PDT by Eska
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