Besides now being theoretically about equal in mpg usually, in practice most manual shift drivers aren't in the ideal gear all that often. I know what I'm doing and when I had a stick I skipped gears and stayed in a lower gear a bit long in traffic so I wouldn't shift up for five seconds before shifting back down,…

At highway speeds, the big thing with something like this (especially the extra tall one) is no doubt square footage being pushed through the air. Whatever that means. Of course, door to door delivery is a whole nother thing. Now that I'm paying attention, the use of a particular van is gonna differ a lot more than a…

If she drives like my sister I can explain why.

The top speeds they use do seem to low. But the test includes starting out, accelerating to the 50's for a bit then around 60 for a while then back to zero, not a constant speed at all. Odd test, and not what I would have expected. I would have expected including the longest section of 65-70 and not starting from…

My current old car gets about the original sticker mpg, and beats the adjusted mpg consistently. My previous even older car (well, it was newer then) also did. So, your results may vary. But I guess no one on earth ever got the Ford rated mpg's.

I thought they adjusted speeds etc. more toward reality a few years ago, when all cars mpg's got generally lowered. On the fueleconomy.gov website they even show original and adjusted mpg's for older cars.

Because they want to use it?

Because cold, heat, rain, snow, and getting killed.

People who want to park in the street in NYC and other dense urban centers buy them.

Came across a Vixen parked on lower Twin Peaks in SF once. Really low because of the popup roof.

I would suggest knackebrod with kalles caviar or jakrill fillet on rye with cucumber.

I think the chassis (body on frame I think) is probably about the same as a TR-3. There was also a TR-2 for a couple of years, which was just the early version of the better known TR-3. The TR-1 was the prototype. Until the IRS, the rear suspension was live axle/leaf springs with about an inch of travel.

How is this Jalopnik, huh? Actually, great article about something I didn't know about, despite having been on that lake. Anyway, "tumblehome" is Jalopnik, as it refers to the angle of the side windows on a car. I never see it used, but that's what it is. Basically the same use of the term as the Navy. The whole top…

Or old style subs at Pearl Harbor, San Francisco, NYC at the Intrepid, and probably more.

Yeah, one big tree should take the whole forest with it. Very suspicious. When it is windy, all the trees in the forest always fall over, not just one.

Most cars that are seriously damaged should really not be repaired.

My Trans Sport doesn't have that. I got robbed. More trivia: 60's Chryslers with AC had Floor Air closeable vents so your feet and legs wouldn't get hot down there.

I rolled my '88 Horizon about like that and didn't lose any glass. Had to rip out the back shelf to get the groceries out of the trunk though (the back seat latches were in the trunk).

Try it on cereal with fruit.

He covered how low quality they are in that kind of place, with garbage syrup.