[SmithL]

Morfordite Alert

You've been warned!

[SmithL]

More Morford:

Response to Morford's orgasm column.

[Mr. K]

geez what a perverted jerk

[Yo-Yo]

God-loves-you ping! (That is if you're a VW...)

[Rebelbase]

I had the Audi Fox version of this car about 10 years later.

[Yo-Yo]

Oh, my new Audi's mpg rating? It's 25 city, 31 highway.

Here is the funny thing. Here is the pathetic thing. In 2005, this is considered very good mileage. This is considered efficient and admirable, even though it's not, even though it's far, far from it, even though you look at those numbers and you think, Oh holy hell, we have, in many ways, progressed not at all. We have progressed exactly zero.

He admitted that his mother's 74 Dasher did 0-60 in three days, and his Audi does the same in under 6 seconds. Does he admit that his Audi engine does this feat while emitting 1/100th the pollutants that his Mother's beloved 74 Dasher did?

If he wants a car that does 0-60 in three days and still has almost zero emissions, he would find that car also gets 60-70 MPG.

Sheesh.

[mak5]

This is a typically false Morford article. What Mark doesn't tell you is that his mother's Dasher was no econobox. It cost more than double what a (ugh) Chevy Vega did. His gas mileage claims are pretty selectively remembered, too: Road & Track found much to admire in the first Dasher. "The Dasher's engine is part of the fun," it wrote. "Driven hard, it sounds virile and — as we said — provides lots of performance. It's also extremely economical for such a performer, and in this sort of driving the Dasher or Fox owner should get at least 25 mpg." This was not a pre-Rabbit/Golf. VW was already selling the Golf in Europe when the Dasher came out. And the 25city/31 highway he thinks is so fine from his Audi? It is about what my SUV gets on regular gas.