The Horizon was me. Loved that car. As for these mileages....the thing that blows me away is diesel. Europe has cleaned up they're diesels and turbo charged them so their performance is passable. One of my favorite all time Magazine automotive ads was the Ford Escort Diesel, where it read "The Ford Escort Diesel gets better than this import (Featured a Toyota) and below it "and this one" (featured a Honda) and even this one (featured a Kawasaki...that's right a motorcycle)" I thought who ever figured this one out was almost as smart as the engineer who put the engine and car together on paper.

Anyway, if they could do that in the mid 80's....Uhmmmmm....it's only been 20 years and we've got computers handling spark now....come on status quo folks....

btw if I remember correctly, the MPG on the escort was 48. Cleaner, turbocharged diesels...why not. I'll even put one in the trunk of my Chally!