Like cars, or even more so, the quest to find fuel efficiency in RVs has come and gone with the price of fuel. In the early eighties, when gas was around $4.00 in today’s dollars, the RV business crashed and desperately looked for a radical solution. One could say that the Winnebago LeSharo was the equivalent of the 1985 Cadillac DeVille: downsized to the extreme. Winnebago desperately searched for the solution, and found it in…France. LeSharo: the LeCar of RVs. (Read More…)
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Freddie - My 99 Contour V6 MT was so much fun to drive – when it ran – that I put WAY too much time and money into keeping it...
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carguy - The Jaguar AJ30 engine is a modified Ford Duratec.
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