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Letters.
Pleasure and pain at the pump
I'm happy to own the Toyota Prius, and as a retired locomotive engineer I'm fascinated by its smooth operation. My mileage runs from a 47-mpg low to 57 mpg. My license plate says "56 MPG.'' And my new favorite slogan: "SUVs Suck While Hybrids Sip.'' My last fill-up was seven gallons at $1.92 while at the next pump a woman was filling her Hummer with premium. Last I saw, her pump read $74 and counting.
Jim Cullen, via e-mail
Here we go again. Long-lost words from my youth return. Here are the words we welcome back: horsepower, rear-wheel drive, station wagon, V8 and Hemi. Here are words that should stay lost: gas shortage and gas lines.
At the last gas shortage I had a '76 Camaro that got 15 mpg at best, and I spent lots of time in gas lines. The car companies said they'd never let this happen again, that they were "on the case'' and in just a few years cars would be getting 50 mpg. Some three decades later, SUVs grow more enormous and Hummer H2s get barely a dozen miles per gallon. I test-drove one last month and the salesman said if you have to ask about gas mileage, you can't afford it.
Michael Penso, Allentown, Pa.
Hatchback haters: a misnomer
- Station wagon makes comeback with entries growing quickly.(Auto Weekend)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Anson, Mike October 24, 1997 700+ words
Remember the old station wagon? If you're of a certain age...unending days of travel in the family station wagon, probably a Ford, Chevy or Plymouth...surfboards to the beach. Eventually the station wagon - probably because of its popularity...
- What's old is new again with the rebirth of the station wagon.(Auto...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) February 13, 2006 700+ words
...passed by an older Buick, a Roadmaster station wagon. Dad remarked, "Don't see many...2004 of the Dodge Magnum perhaps the station wagon is again poised to populate American...Station wagons." So, with the station wagon perhaps ready to leap back into popularity...
- The rise, fall and possible rise of the station wagon.(Design)
- Magazine article from: Automotive News Jeanes, William September 20, 2004 700+ words
...attribute the disappearance of the domestic station wagon to the minivan's arrival in 1983...include one more finding: The domestic station wagon, with one exception, came to display...varnished wooden sides and rear - a station wagon. The term "station wagon'' ...
- On the station wagon trail.
- Magazine article from: Country Living Masello, David August 1, 2005 700+ words
...in 1982 of the minivan, caused the station wagon to run out of gas. The 1996 Buick...Cleary, president of the American Station Wagon Owners Association (ASWOA), a collector...1950s and '60s, the heyday of the station wagon, the "cars were used for everything...
- By any name, it's a station wagon.(sport wagons)(Column)
- Magazine article from: Automotive News Crain, Keith March 24, 2003 700+ words
...obvious that I was looking at an American station wagon. That's not a bad thing. At one...over America. The minivan killed the station wagon. People liked the minivan's boxy...started. I've been preaching that the station wagon would make a comeback, and now you...
- SUBARU SAGRES CONCEPT STATION WAGON
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 3, 1994 700+ words
...course!) platform. And as the leading station-wagon importer, SOA President George Muller...Ltd. -- intends to be the world's station wagon leader and the Sagres represents a...will continue to take the 'basic' station wagon theme and develop and refine it to...
- Sport wagon stampede; Designers scramble to define sport wagons, the station...
- Magazine article from: Automotive News Child, Charles January 17, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Charles Child First the station wagon was tainted by the soccer-mom stigma...minivan's turn. Consumers want a station wagon - a functional hauler for the family...desperately trying to reinvent the station wagon,'' says Jeffrey Hands, head of...
- Station wagon hits school bus.(NEWS)
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) June 11, 2003 700+ words
The 16-year-old driver of a station wagon broadsided a school bus carrying four...traveling north on 1st Avenue S. when the station wagon hit it about 2 p.m. at the intersection...careening sideways. Witnesses said the station wagon's driver ran a red light. "The...
