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  • Morrison
    E30 Addict
    • May 2006
    • 430
    #31
    The unit of measure they are using though can be broken to mean energy per unit of work. The definition of work being mass moved over a distance. The diesel fuel contains your energy. This is very different from mpg which is just distance per energy with no regard to how much WORK is being done.

    Also, aside from the '53-'54 Corvette, the only other year that a manual was not available was in 1982. Neither transmission was offered in '83. Granted, there was about 10 years there where engine output was choked to death by emissions standards. Took some time, but they have now figured out how to crank out crazy horsepower.
    Last edited by Morrison; 08-22-2011, 01:26 PM.
    "I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
    -Franklin D. Roosevelt

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      • mrsleeve
        I waste 90% of my day here and all I got was this stupid title
        • Mar 2005
        • 16385
        #32
        there was no vette in 83. And I am trying to find the source of my info. I dont ever recall seeing a 76-82 with a manual ever anywhere and I am a big vette guy.

        any way the point still remains that from 83-88 vettes used an unusual 4+3 transmission a 4-speed manual coupled to an automatic overdrive on the top three gears. It was designed to help the Corvette meet U.S. fuel economy and emissions standards.
        Originally posted by Fusion
        If a car is the epitome of freedom, than an electric car is house arrest with your wife titty fucking your next door neighbor.
        The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -Alexis de Tocqueville


        The Desire to Save Humanity is Always a False Front for the Urge to Rule it- H. L. Mencken

        Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants.
        William Pitt-

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          • mar1t1me
            E30 Modder
            • Sep 2009
            • 863
            #33
            This is a recurring theme.....

            I remember reading about a set of new regulations in the '70's that the US auto industry loudly proclaimed could not be met with existing technology. And how Mr. Soichiro Honda borrowed a Vega and returned it some weeks later with his own head fitted. Now, it performed better and exceeded the standards....

            Regulations aren't automatic disasters. They can spur innovation. Would we have American cars with efficient, high tech engines if there were no emissions regs? Probably all still be rockin' detuned push rod V8s....and 15 MPG. Just like my '72 Pontiac Catalina.....

            Personally, I think trucking is overused. Get into a traffic jam, and you begin to see just how many trucks are really out there-there are lots. And they don't really pay their way-it is estimated that even on slightly imperfect road surfaces a single semi truck pass creates the same amount of wear as 30,000 cars. Pretty sure trucks don't pay 30K times the taxes the cars pay....

            So, their presence is subsidized......they don't pay their share. And the Interstates are getting trashed. Why doesn't that piss anyone off? ;)

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