<<Originally posted by mark10t
When it's this far below zero, it takes a lot of power just to push the car forward.
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What? Please explain what you mean by this. Is the dense, cold air offering so much more resistance that cars actually require more power to move at a given speed? Is that what you're implying? >>

<<I think mark10t mean that when the cold makes the grease and oil in the motor and transmission line very thick and almost solid (it feels so anyway ) the power to overcome theese factors increases and cosumes fuel....right mark10t ?>>

Yup. Everything gets real stiff at these temp's. I woke up to a reading of -32.4 deg. F this AM- and that's not windchill!!

I remember a cold spell like this back in the early '70's and when I pushed the clutch in on my '71 Capri 2000, it stayed on the floor for a while! You didn't really have to use the brakes, you just stopped pushing on the gas pedal and the car would come to a stop on it's own.

BBBBRRRRRRRR!!!!

-Mark

(It's warmed all the way up to -20 deg. F!!)