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Article: New-car gas mileage often falls short of EPA estimates.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- August 29, 2004
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By Tony Bizjak, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 29--Clearly, when outdoorsman Bill Karr bought his big Ford truck a few years back, he wasn't looking for great gas mileage.
Even so: The mileage sticker on the window said the truck would get 18 miles to the gallon. Yet, Karr can't nudge it past 16. Often he gets just 12.
"I wouldn't get that 18 unless I went downhill in neutral," the Placerville man says with a chuckle. He's been down this road before. "It's buyer beware. That sticker is not going to be correct," he says.
And that's not just his opinion.
Several consumer and ...