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[Brithunter]

Hmm as to cars with good fuel comsumption well both Ford and GM has them but as has already been stated they are smaller in size than the US car is or was. I remember laughing at a US programme which showed Fords new concept car which was all alloy construction. What they showed was an Alloy bodied Ford Mondeo .

The 2.0 Litre Modeo will give around 40 MPG and is quite capable of cruisijng at 100mph the STi sports version does about 140 Mph and a bit less per gallon. As for trucks which I am assuming you mean pick-ups ..................................... well Ford makes the Transit which in the 35 Cwt (20 Cwt to the Ton so a 1 3/4 ton truck) this will give about 30-35 mpg and is available as a van, pick-up, and tipper, with single cab or crew cab and is also made in all wheel drive. The 35 Cwt has twin rear wheels like what you call a Dooley.

Now as to the Asian stuff being more eficient well not all of it is. I have a few friends who run or ran the Daihatsu Sporttrack which is a 1.6 litre petrol small 4WD vehicle they get about 26mpg and are cramped in the back. Less than a month ago I brought a 1993 Jeep Cherokee 4.0 Litre Hi-output auto and last week had to go down south. On the journey down I got 26 mpg and on the way back towing a 4 wheeled trailed with a car on it just over 21 mpg. The car is a 1977 Truimph Dolomite 1500 HL 4 door saloon. It has twin SU carbs and wood dash and door cappings. This too will cruise at 100mph and I have done so before in it But it's been parked up since 98 and now I have to sort it out and do her up a little.

Since new it's done 48,000 miles . OK it's small by US standards but this old car will give quite confortable 35-40+ mpg . Yes the UK is crowded by US standards and on some of our old back roads the 1970's US cars have serious problems getting down them as the roads are too narrow. Yes we need to get rid of the Illegal Immigrants that are here thenw e would not need to cover more land with houses for those who should not be here in the first place. The polititions tell us it's for our children but you would have to be really stupid to believe that the fact is that the Illegals for some reason get priority over the natives of these Islands. Mr lair and his Scottish cohorts have a lot of explaining to do!

Now as to the British empire well the damned Liberals got all concerned for the Colonies and the natives and started making noises about home rule. Take India for example instead of hanging Ghandi they tried talking to him they should alos have shot the entire Indian National Army in 1946 as were you aware they this Seikh based army while wearing British uniform fought for the Japanese my father was in Derra Dun when they were brought in grinning their trecherous heads off wearing two badges on their turbans and there was enough ammo available to deal with them but the do gooders wouldn't let them be executed like they should have been.

Another fault was educating the natives, look where that led you have maniacs and scum like Mugabe in Ziwbawe. Education didn't help the poeple it made them slaves to terror regimes like Mugabes' as the education seems to have made them more corrupt than ever . I doubt that until there is only one tribe in Africa will there be anything like peace and then they will fight umongst themselves as has been going on since the time the blackman appeared in Africa .