Style Is Everything.What do Angelenos care about ma car -- even when it gets 70 miles per gallon Noun 1. miles per gallon - the distance traveled in a vehicle powered by one gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel unit, unit of measurement - any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange; "the dollar is the United States unit of ? They want to know whether it looks cool. That's been the initial reaction to Honda Motor Co.'s new Insight, a car powered by both an internal-combustion engine internal-combustion engine, one in which combustion of the fuel takes place in a confined space, producing expanding gases that are used directly to provide mechanical power. an electric cells: Not only did it score record-high gas mileage Noun 1. gas mileage - the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned fuel consumption rate, gasoline mileage, mileage ratio - the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient) in federal highway tests, it also puts out the lowest emissions of any gas-powered car ever. A Honda spokesman says L.A. is expected to be the car's biggest market in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . And one local salesman says he's already gotten lots of calls about the Insight, even though it hasn't been delivered to any dealers yet. What are callers most interested in? "They want to check out how it looks," the salesman said. |
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