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To: elmatador who wrote (64594)	6/5/2005 8:31:17 PM
From: Slagle	Respond to of 74559

elmatador Re: "12 miles per gallon" I bet I could tune one up and get 40 mpg, maybe better. Not at 75 mph, stalled in city traffic or climbing steep hills of course. I did a little online reading up on the Paykan after your earlier post. Interesting little car. It is a sort of copy of a British Hillman and unless the Iranians really screwed something up (cam profile, carb ect.) it should be a pretty efficient little scooter. I've had some similar cars that got great mileage. How you drive has more to do with it than anything. I have one now over in the Philippines that will get 45 mpg and it is similar in several ways to the Paykan. My contraption is called a Toyota Tamaraw (Tamaraw is Tagalog for water buffalo). It is a little 1500cc 4 cylinder pushrod motor called a 5K that will literally last forever in taxi service. It is a 5 speed with no catalytic muffler with a boxy trucky SUV sort of body. I've seen Tamaraws hauling 20 or more passangers. I'm pretty cynical about all the hype over the new "high mileage cars" hybrid or otherwise. High mileage autos have been around for a long, long time but in the US anyway there has been very little demand for them. I've driven high mileage cars most of my life and enjoyed them very much. Lots of MG roadsters will give 40 mpg carefully driven. Now whats more fun, a little Brit convertible or a big American barge? And I ride a little dinky motorcycle now, not a Harley. Slagle