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I had a Ford F-250 with a 428 cid engine. This truck had no problem getting 25 mpg with a 6200 lb truck. I had a shop where I could check emissions and build the engine to perform at its best. In the late 70’s it passed all CA standards with ease. If I could do that, why is the car company’s having a hard time breaking the 40-50 mpg with much lighter cars? It has allways looked like the car company’s were being paid off by the oil company’s.

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Ralph Young I keep saying the same thing. When I first started driving my dad had a 1963 Ford Fairlane 2 door, it had a 260 CID V8 engine and a 2 speed automatic transmission. It was not very good doing suburban and city driving, but out on the highway it got about 28 MPGs. In 1979 I bought a 1970 Mustang that had @ 1000,000 miles on it, it had a 302 engine & auto trans, it averaged @ 22 city & 24 highway for MPG. At that time I worked at a dealership that had the exhaust sniffer and I used it to fine tune the engine, and to my surprise it was burning much cleaner running on LEADED gas, than a brand new Toyota with a 4 cylinder engine running on unleaded gas, and pushing the exhaust through a catalytic converter. GO FIGURE on that one for awhile!!!! Something does not add up!!
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hello ford motor company im a beloved ford bronco fan, to prove to you guys that i am look at my facebook page i have my broncos going throught there redemption. i need to update my facebook. i have two broncos a 1979 ranger with a 351 in it and a 1986 with a 302 first fuel injected ford truck. When ford motor company say that they would possable build another i was so excited, but after 2005 i guess u guys backed out i know that it would be hard to start if again. I remember when ford was out to beat it all. When chevrolet came out with the suburban ford decided to go against them with the bronco and they excended the heavy chevrolet couldnt go all the places the bronco could go. Now the jeeps and the FJs are become the only real off roading vehical. The ford raptor was a awsome idea but to expensive for the middle class. What im asking is to bring the bronco back, there is so many people the still want one i might be sixteen but there is money in them just do like they did with them in the old day where the ford f150 part were the same as the broncos. just if u do just do not put the electronic 4x4 push button things, they break all the time just look your f150s now and look at the blogs they are all have trouble with them. Another thing put a solid axle under it not what they put under the 1980s and up(the independent axle thing). I promise that they will sell alot better than the ford raptor. i hope you do think about this and what could be acomplished. i would love to have feed back on this please ford. thank you for your time.
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