[DeTomaso] NPC Check Engine Light
Thomas Tornblom
thomas at hax.se
Fri Oct 7 13:54:14 EDT 2011
My low geared GT5 gets 18 mpg with the EFI.
With the 650 dp it got about 12 mpg.
7 okt 2011 kl. 18:32 skrev "Art Stephens" <artstephens at verizon.net>:
> Sean wrote, "I like having one boring car". I'm with you on that Sean! My
> daily driver is that new CRZ, it gets 38-39 mpg on my road trips. I figure
> my Pantera costs me about four times as much in fuel. So I go from extreme
> to extreme, one balancing out the other. It beats using my old 13 mpg GMC
> pickup as the daily driver, which meant that between the Pantera and the
> truck, my city fuel economy was about 11 mpg. :-[[ And you know, the CRZ is
> slow but it is fun on the twisties.
>
> Art
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Korb
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 7:17 AM
> To: List Pantera
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC Check Engine Light
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Will Kooiman <wkooiman at earthlink.net> wrote:
> BTW... it is a boring car. It's very cheap and reliable, but
>> very boring.
>
> Just an uninvited comment... I *like* having one boring car.
> Dreadfully horribly boring. I think that might make me boring too.
> But I need something liek a washing machine to get back and forth to
> work, and though having an exciting car for that purpose is what I
> used to dream of (and live for a time) I find that my limited
> enjoyment of an exciting car in commuter traffic really is
> frustrating. I drive my little Del Sol back and forth and back and
> forth, in blearey eyed mornings and exhausted afternoons, grocery
> shopping and driving the kid to practice. Boring boring boring. But
> it's cheeeeeap! And it just keeps running without complaint.
>
> I have become what I despise. A boring person with boring thoughts
> and boring chores. But I do have a few fun toys and my boring life
> doesn't distract me too much from that :)
>
> sean
>
> --
> Sean Korb spkorb at spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org
> '65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382
> "The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller
> "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso
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