Hmm, a Ford Falcon I6 circa late '60s would get about 20mpg. A mini SUV, Ford Escape is rated for 21 w/a 4cyl 2.3 (!) liter...
Minivans give more mileage per volume transported. Meaning you can move more stuff because of a larger interior for the gas used. They're cheaper to maintain and cheaper to purchase. They use cheaper tires and a slightly cheaper to insure. Those are all gross generalizations and I'd love to see some hard data to back it up. I wouldn't love it enough to drive a minivan though. I've often said if we have a family it'll be a station wagon for us. Probably either a W123 or a Focus, isn't that a spread? -Curt --- On Mon, 7/14/08, R A Bennell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: R A Bennell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [MBZ] Let the oil flow! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Date: Monday, July 14, 2008, 6:42 PM An Explorer with a V6 is still smaller than the station wagon that your father drove. I really don't know why SUV's are picked on so much. A mini-van is not much different but no one seems to mind them. Randy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 3:14 PM To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Let the oil flow! Wait, she "has to have an SUV" for 3 car seats? Holy crap, all those families with 3 kids and a stationwagon when I was growing up "had to have" an SUV? Theres "have to have" and "its easier to have"... Besides why does she have 3 kids? I always wonder about that on the news "Bill has 16 children he supports on $2 a day" well gee Bill wouldn't it be easier to support your kids if you'd only had 4, or maybe none? You makes your choices and you pays your price. If Clinton had opened ANWAR in 1992 we'd have burned all the oil (when it was $10 a barrell) by now and oil prices would be even higher since we wouldn't have it in reserve. or Nobody would have drilled when it was $10 a barrell and we'd be talking about easing environmental restrictions so they could go in and drill in a hurry now (okay a couple years ago but you get the idea). Oh BTW yeah prices are gonna go up. Poor people are gonna give up smoking and budweiser and cable tv and NASCAR crap they really don't need. We're a nation of whiny "need" everythings that can't separate our "needs" from our "wants". We've got it so easy now we have no idea how easy we have it. I'll surely put myself into that "we". -Curt _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
