Henry's decision to abandon his treasured "Tin Lizzie" after 19 years and a staggering 15-million cars -- the last not very different from the first -- came almost too late, and his company lost a lot in money and goodwill during the long changeover to the belated new Model A. Yet ...
was $3.804 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline. Most cars have a tank between 10 and 20 gallons, so let’s use 15 as a decent average, considering the fact that we were unable to find good data about the actual average gas tank size. That would make fully filling up your ...
INDOT Introducing Displaced Left Turn Lanes to the Lloyd Expressway in Evansville The biggest gripe about The Lloyd (a.k.a. Highway 62/66) has always been that there are too many stoplights for something considered to be an "expressway." Over the years, the city has worked with the Indi...
Tallying up the gains, GM claims a net savings of 15-million gallons of fuel and 150,000 tons of CO2 per year for seven new production models: Buick LaCrosse; Cadillac XT5; Chevrolet’s Camaro, Cruze, Malibu, and Volt; and GMC Acadia. This bodes well for the future. L...
when Los Angeles gas station operator Frank Ulrich advertised cheaper prices in exchange for customers pumping their own gas. It was a hit, with the tiny station selling hundreds of thousands of gallons in a single month. Within a few decades, self-serve gas was commonplace across the nation....
Mazda scrapped more than 4,700 new cars when the car-carrying vessel Cougar Ace nearly capsized in July 2006 and remained on its side for a month off the Aleutian Islands. Even though the ship was rescued and all vehicles removed, Mazda said it could not sell any of the cars as new or...
It was a hit, with the tiny station selling hundreds of thousands of gallons in a single month. Within a few decades, self-serve gas was commonplace across the nation. 1948 Keystone Features // Getty Images 1948 - Absolute gas price: $0.24- Inflation-adjusted price: $2.57 (#31 least ...
The key of the BlueDevil working is that you are able to circulate the same water for the recommended 50 minute idle; on a marine engine you could use a bucket or barrel to accomplish this; it would be best to use 3 – 4 gallons of water. The other necessity is that the water will...
Less obvious were wider doors, with the rears now front-hinged on sedans, and a slightly smaller fuel tank (though still ample at 24.1 gallons). The hardtop, again advertised as the Coupe, gained a sweeping roofline with huge C-pillars that made over-the-shoulder vision dodgy. The ...
The '95s got a mild facelift, "gullwing" taillights, revised climate controls and newly standard rear defroster, heated door mirrors, a radio antenna embedded in the rear window, a "battery-saver" feature, and displays for outside temperature and "gallons to empty." Even with all these ...