[Healeys] Car stuff - not Healey

[Josef.Eckert at t-systems.com]

Hi Alan,
Here in Europe the cars need to do this mileage, otherwise they are not
bought. Our family car, a Renault Scenic Turbo-Diesel (Similar size to the
Focus), does around same mileage, but it really hurts to pay $11 for the
gallon here in Germany. Czech and Slovak Republics and Austria have very low
prices for petrol here in Europe.

Josef Eckert
Koenigswinter/Germany

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von Alan Seigrist
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I'm in the Czech and Slovak Republics right now and we rented a diesel Ford
Focus station wagon (they call it a Combi) and did 500 kilometers in it
(incuding stop and go traffic in Prague), fully loaded (5 people plus
luggage), the thing had tons of power, was very fast, and -

got 38 miles per gallon.

That included doing about 200 km on the freeway at 75 miles an hour.
That's almost as good as a Prius.

I tell you the fact that gas is $7 a gallon here is almost irrelevant when you
get mileage like this.

Alan

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