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Article: Gas mileage--what's that? (Mail: readers sound off).(Letter to the Editor)
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- August 4, 2003
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I read your editorial on car shopping (DN 04.21.03), and I have a good story, too. We went car shopping a while ago with some specific requirements, one of which was good gas mileage. Dealerships consistently had no idea about the gas mileage of their cars, usually falling back on the old "Well, let's just look and find out" ploy to cover their ignorance or they would steer us towards a vehicle seemingly picked at random and try to interest us in performance (isn't gas mileage part of "performance"?), or a great discount, or something else. In one ...