On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 00:51, Eric <huffy340@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's a bit of a weird stat w/o giving us how they calculated it.
>
> We don't know if they based it on the amount of power needed to
> move the truck while cruising, or just on the mpg each car gets,
> or ???
If they don't say how they came to the conclusion, it's bogus.
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:53:32 -0600 Barry Oliver wrote:
>
>> http://www.autoblog.com/2007/04/30/the-different-sides-of-diesel-dodge-ram-2500-cummins-vs-smart/
>> Quote:
>> One point that we found to be rather interesting was that the
>> Cummins 6.7-liter diesel engine actually scales rather well when
>> compared to the 0.8-liter engine of the Smart. In other words, if
>> the Smart's engine were the size of the Cummins engine, it would
>> get worse mileage.
>
>
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