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Re: S.U.V.

To: "PATRICK P. CASTRONOVO" <slick@mohaveaz.com>,
Subject: Re: S.U.V.
From: Mike Poorboy <bitterrootprop@nidlink.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 19:36:36 -0700

"PATRICK P. CASTRONOVO" wrote:

> Did you read the specs. on the Rambo ? It's got a V-12 engine. It get's 4
> mpg city, and 6 mpg. hwy.
>                    620 hp.  and can go 292 mph.
>  I don't think those people have their heads on straight.  It has a fifty
> gal. fuel tank @ 4 mpg.= 200 miles. @ $1.00 per gal. = $50.00.  It would
> cost me $50.00 to go to Las Vegas and return.  A distance of 200 miles.  It
> takes me, in the 1998 Nissan Altima we now own, 10 gal. to make the same
> trip.=$10.00.
>
> The horsepower race is on again.  The one they curbed in 1965.
> And it looks like the gasoline is plentiful again, so guzzle up to the pumps
> @ 1.50 per gal. and 4-6 miles per gal.
>                                             The Oil Companies did it to us
> again.  Raised the price of Gas and then conspired with the auto makers to
> drop the efficency of the vehicles.
>
> What happened to the Federal milage standards that were supposed to be
> imposed in this country ?
>
> No wonder Nissan is into reorganization.
>
> From: Dan and Louise Yates <yates@sk.sympatico.ca>
> To: roadsters list <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> Date: Saturday, October 23, 1999 1:51 PM
> Subject: S.U.V.
>
> >The latest from Nissan??
> >http://www.cyberstones.com/cyberstones/news/1099/news1.html
> >
> >
> >

Patrick,
I hope you now you have been Had :-)

I almost fell for it, but the picture was of a Blazer.

Mike


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