Re: Flexfuel nonsense

HD in NY wrote:


Something wrong here Ram. My wife's Dad had a '64 Dodge 880, certainly a full size six passenger sedan. It weighed something like 3,600 lbs. My '64 Falcon two door weighed something like 2,000 lbs. A new Ford Crown Vic goes about 4,000 lbs and a new Focus 4 door weighs around 2700 lbs. I'll take the extra weight for the safety features provided in the newer cars. I don't see the weight penalty you do. JMHO.
Hugh

What you are forgetting is the multitude of changes to light weight plastic, and light weight metals, only to have vehicles weigh as much as they did when they were all steel.

Lon
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