No doubt about the original workhorse that both started the American auto industry and the US assembly mass market production line was the venerable Ford Model “T“. The Model T had no power steering mechanism and on top of that a hand or strong arm manual mechanical starter mechanism. No electric starter motor here. The car – or automobile that “started it all” could not even drive at faster speeds than 40 miles an hour or so – unless you had a tremendous wind pushing the vehicle down the road.
However unlike the “boats” of the 1960′s the Model T got 21 miles per gallon. On top of that the Model T was way way ahead of time being fully “Flexi-Fuel” being able to use alchohol as a fuel that was readily available “on the farm” and gasoline in town readily available at local gasoline stations.
On the other hand in 2010 contrast this to US Environmental Protection Agency contention that the average fleet mileage calculations for the year of 2008 work out to 20.8 mpg miles per a gallon.
Isn’t that amazing – a vehicle that is considered primitive by any means – achieved basically the same result as our high tech , electronic gadget controlled cars.
Where have our car makers and politicians been since 1973. The cars for clunkers program should of emphasized what consumers what in this era – yet auto makers were content – and reinforced by their self serving short sited marketing research to do the exact opposite. Note the clueless statements of the GM auto exec who went on to become Obama’s auto Czar.
Despite continuous developments in technology , and even in fuel products fleet fuel economy has actually been on the road of continual degradation in the 70 or so years following the Model T’s introduction itself. In 1975 for example the typical American “gas guzzler” automobile averaged 13.2 miles per gallon mpg rating. The fuel crisis of the 1970′s spurred then rapid focus and a betterment to an average of 23.4 miles per gallon by 1987 – mainly the result of a shift to smaller , front end transmission cars , which as a result were also lighter in weight as well.
Guess we had not learned our lesson well .
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