Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/27

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Audi mileage
From: lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Thu Apr 27 12:16:30 2006
References: <200604271624.k3RGNAwp003087@server1.waverley.reid.org>

On Apr 27, 2006, at 12:24 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

> At 09:45 AM 4/27/06 -0400, David C Mason wrote:
>> Marc James Small <msmall@aya.yale.edu> writes:
>>
>>> I drive a manual '84 Audi 4000S which gets 40mpg on the highway  
>>> and 30mpg
>>> around town.
>>
>> 40mpg from a 1984 Audi? I gotta admit that makes me raise an  
>> eyebrow or
>> two. The '85 only gets 22mpg:
>> http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/55.shtml
>>
>> Its a fine car but it ain't a supercar.
>
> Perhaps so, but I know a bunch of other owners, and we all get  
> mileages in
> that range.  My mechanic just keeps telling me NEVER to sell it.
>
> Marc

I guess that both you and the mechanic live on tall hills and drive  
to work only when the wind is behind you. How you get back up the  
hill is a mystery.

Larry Z