Boing-
When you were cruising at .95 thirty years ago, how much did jet-A cost, what was your fuel flow, and more importantly what was the range at that speed?
Yeah, the Convair 880 would outrun just about anything short of a B-58, but it SUCKED gas worse than a 426 Hemi at full throttle!
A freind of mine once owned a 427 El Camino that would flat smoke anything in town, but he couldn't pass a gas station without stopping to fill the tank. A lot of fun, but basically useless (well, he did put Astroturf in the back, for some reason
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The Cruiser will give us back the speed of those halcyon days of cheap fuel, with range and costs in line with today's realities.