The average new car isn’t much more fuel-efficient than older ones. Still, to this day, the average vehicle has a range of between 20 and 30 miles per gallon, a stat which was very similar in the 1920s. How come with all the advances we’ve made in the last century is fuel efficiency the same?

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The average new car isn’t much more fuel-efficient than older ones. Still, to this day, the average vehicle has a range of between 20 and 30 miles per gallon, a stat which was very similar in the 1920s. How come with all the advances we’ve made in the last century is fuel efficiency the same?

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Answer 1

Complete BS, new cars are way more efficient than old ones, and don’t give me that model T bull, they weighed fuck all and didn’t go fast. Ever drive a mid 70’s sedan with a V8 in it? Or an old pickup? Na, didn’t think so.