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Originally Posted by Capricio
Some of the worst "improvements" to enhance EPA rated mileage:
- Timing belts instead of chains, expensive service every 50k miles
- Turbos on small displacement engines with no real world improvement in mileage despite what happens on a test stand.
- Over complicating automatic transmissions with more than 6 gears
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My Equinox with a 1.5L Turbo gets 24MPG. WHAT A JOKE!!!
If it had a Buick 3.8, it would get at least 27! My 2002 Park Avenue got 29.