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Apr 30th 2007, 3:33 pm

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Duncan Roberts

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Re: Rising Gas Prices

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Originally Posted by danfan

I drive a little Mazda, bought it thinking smaller car, better mileage, but I am disappointed that it only does about 20 mpg.

What model do you have? That seems crazy low for any of their small cars, maybe the miata if you are driving round the city all day at an average of 3 or 4 thousand revs!

Apr 30th 2007, 5:20 pm

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neil

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Re: Rising Gas Prices

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Originally Posted by Duncan Roberts

What model do you have? That seems crazy low for any of their small cars, maybe the miata if you are driving round the city all day at an average of 3 or 4 thousand revs!

That does seem low - I have a Protege that gets about 32 to 36 mpg.

Apr 30th 2007, 5:22 pm

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Bob

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Re: Rising Gas Prices

between $2.85-$2.95 G around here for the cheap stuff.

does suck a bit as it has gone up loads over the last couple of months...all in time for the holidays...

Apr 30th 2007, 5:22 pm

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Re: Rising Gas Prices

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Originally Posted by Maz

Interesting! I'd like to see those stats...

I tried to google for it but no luck. I cannot remember for the life of me where it was but it was one of the major news-type websites not some random one that noone would have heard of.