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by Rob Douthit
Mazda delivers a
sporty crossover
Crossovers are SUVs that model and 18/24 with allare built on car platforms,
wheel drive.
rather than the truck
The six-speed autoplatforms that traditional
matic transmission shifts
SUVs occupy. So Mazda
smoothly.
decided to take this a step
The interior is surprisfurther, making a crossingly spiffy, comparing
over that is not just carfavorably with vehicles
based but sports-car based. that reside in the luxury
The recategory.
sult? The
The
all new
CX-7
Mazda
can hold
CX-7.
five pasIt’s hard
sengers
not to like
fairly
this. It’s got
comfortgreat looks
ably and
— sort of
should
Mazda
muscuhave
lar, but
Mazda’s CX-7 combines the
compact
performance of a sports car and broad
market
and nicely the versatility of an SUV.
appeal,
rounded.
reaching
It’s got
younger
a great
heritage, having been built and older buyers, male and
with cues from the Mazda5 female.
(a minivan-type vehicle)
Cargo space isn’t bad,
and Mazda6 (a nice sedan),
with 29.9 cubic feet availand taking its engine from
able behind the rear seat
the Mazda Speed6 (a scinand 58.6 cubic feet availtillating sports car).
able with the back seat
That engine, a 2.3-liter
folded.
turbocharged four cylinder,
For safety, the CX-7 offers
is powerful enough to give
six standard air bags and
the CX-7 some 244-horsestandard stability control.
power oomph and makes
The CX-7, the second
it a little more fun to drive
SUV in Mazda’s lineup
than your typical SUV or
following the Tribute, is
crossover.
offered in three trim levels,
Gas mileage is pretty
Sport, Touring and Grand
good for a vehicle that ofTouring, with prices startfers this much size and
power: 19 mpg city/24 high- ing around $23,700 and
ranging to about $34,300.
way in the two-wheel drive
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Improve Gas Mileage: Tips To Live By
• Drive sensibly. Speeding, rapid acceleration and braking wastes
gas. You can improve your gas mileage by 33% on the highway
and 5% around town by driving at a more constant speed.
• Observe speed limits. Gas mileage decreases rapidly at speeds
over 60 mph. In general, each 5 mph over 60 mph costs an extra
$0.20 a gallon. Although, different vehicles reach their optimal
fuel efficiency at different speeds.
• Avoid keeping unnecessary items in your car, especially heavy ones.
• Avoid excessive idling. Larger engines usually waste more gas
when idling than smaller engines.
• Cruise control helps your vehicle maintain a constant speed
which usually saves gas.
• Using overdive gears decreases your engine speed. This saves
gas and helps maintain your engine.
Info from http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/driveHabits.shtml
Volume 2, Issue 12
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CARSTAR Franchisee Protects His Neighbors
Quiet heroes often hope
to fly under the radar but
there are some amazing
stories that beg to be told.
Mark Purcell’s incredible strength in the face
of disaster is one of those
stories.
On the morning of Saturday, October 14, Mark
In the Bleachers
Ever Wonder?
How cruise control came about?
Believe it or not, cruise control was actually invented by a
blind man, Ralph Teetor. Teetor,
who started building cars at
12-years-old, got his degree in
Mechanical Engineering from
the University of Pennsylvania.
Teetor invented this feature
after a long
car ride with
his lawyer, an
excessive talker,
who sped up and
slowed down as
he yakked. Early
names for the invention included
“Controlmatic”,
“Touchomatic”,
“Pressomatic” and
“Speedostat.” He
received a patent
in 1945. Modern cruise control
was first offered in the 1958
Chrysler Imperial.
Speed control devices,
however, had been used in
automobiles since as early as
the 1910s. The technology,
invented by James Watts and
Matthew Boulton had been used
on locomotives since 1788. It
used centrifugal force to adjust
the throttles as needed to control
speed.
In modern cruise control
devices, the driver accelerates to
the desired speed.
The mechanism
then takes a speed
signal from either a
rotating driveshaft,
speedometer cable,
a speed sensor on
the wheels or from
the engine’s RPM.
Usually, a driver
cannot set cruise
control below 35
mph to discourage
use in city driving.
Cruise control has proven to
be very helpful for long driving trips on roads with sparse
traffic.
Info from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Cruise_control and http://inventors.about.
com/library/inventors/blcruisecontrol.htm
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6/13/06
Purcell sat in the private
second floor office above
his store, CARSTAR
Hyde Park-Oakley of
Cincinnati, writing
reports for his financial
focus group when he
looked out the window
to see flames and smoke
coming from the fourstory, 20-unit
apartment
building
across the
street.
Adrenaline
kicked in
immediately
as Purcell
ran across
the street and
into the burning building.
He first came
across a
woman, frozen in fear,
glued against
the hallway
wall holding
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her 6-month-old infant.
Mark escorted the two to
safety outside.
Without hesitation, he
proceeded back into the
building three times and
saved the lives of at least
four people before the fire
department arrived.
“By that time, most of
the residents
were out on
their balconies and
on the roof.
We took the
families to
a neighboring building
while the fire
Mark Purcell outside his Cincinnati store
department
worked all day to put out
building and up to the
the flames and clean up,”
second floor. In one unit,
recalls Purcell.
he found a woman that
The media reaction
the flames had taken off
was intense. All four
all of her hair and her
local television stations
face and arms were badly
interviewed Mark and
burned. Mark carried
The Cincinnati Enquirer
this woman to safety as
wrote a story about him.
well. It was later discovThe community took
ered that this apartment
notice
too. People would
was where the fire had
stop him on the street
originated. In the end,
and shake his hand. For
Purcell had entered the
this quiet-natured man,
the sudden fame was
difficult to handle. Purcell
is incredibly private, and
doesn’t think of himself
as a hero. Even his wife
didn’t realize the seriousness of the fire until she
saw it on TV three days
later, because Mark was
so modest about his role
in the event.
“I just did what anybody else would do. For
a few days after the fire,
I couldn’t even walk into
my store without being
approached for a
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handshake, it was a little
embarrassing.”
“The real heroes are
the men and woman who
fought in the Great Wars,
I can not compare myself
to the real heroes that
protect our country.”
But the media attention
was not the only impact
the fire had on Mark. For
some time afterward he
had difficulty sleeping.
Nightmares and cold
sweats became the norm.
The post trauma of the
incident makes some
memories and details
fuzzy. But a close friend,
whose son is a firefighter,
snapped him out of it by
saying “suck it up Mark.”
“I didn’t think it would
be so rough for me, I just
did what I had to do. I
has awakened me to the
fact of how incredible
our solders are. They
have to live with post
trauma for a large portion
CARSTAR Hyde Park-Oakley, across the street from the site of the apartment fire
wasn’t thinking, I was
just acting,” says Mark of
his efforts.
“I’m fine now, yet it
CARSTAR Comics
of their lives.”
Since the fire, clients
have brought their cars to
Mark’s CARSTAR Hyde
Park-Oakley store to
personally acknowledge
his efforts, and they’ve
commented that they
weren’t aware that there
was a CARSTAR store
in his location until they
saw it on TV.
At press time, there
is still no known cause
for the fire. While the
woman who was so
badly burned is still
in the trauma unit at
University Hospital, she
has had successful skin
grafts to repair the damage to her arms and face
and is expected to make
a full recovery. Doctors
hope to transfer her to the
Shriner’s Burn Institute
soon to complete her recuperation. Her daughter
thanked Mark personally
for saving her mother’s
life. Thankfully, there
were no fatalities caused
by the blaze.
“I like to think that if
I saved anything in that
building, it was that little
baby. I don’t think those
little lungs could have
taken all of that smoke
too much longer.”
Humble words from a
good neighbor.
Teleword
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The Duplex
Pooch Café
CARSTAR Hyde Park-Oakley
4016 Allston St.
Cincinnati, OH 45212
(513) 731-8585
Owner: Mark M. Purcell
Customer Service Rating: 91%
Equipment
• Brewco Frame Equipment
• NOC Semidown Heated Paint Booth
• CCC Pathways, ADP Photolink, Comp Est
Computer Software
• Snap On Welding Equipment(3)
• PPG Paint
• Rotary Car Hoist
• Sublet Alignment
Special Services
• Towing Service:
Accurate Towing, (513) 841-9555
• Enterprise Rent-A-Car
• Extended Hours: By Appointment and Drop
Box
• CARSTAR 5-Year Nationwide Warranty
“Quality + Customer Satisfaction = Pride.”
— Mark M. Purcell, Owner
Edited by Timothy Parker
ACROSS
1 Noisy dance
4 One making
overnight deliveries
9 Model/ actress
Eleniak
14 Tennessee twins?
15 Rousing ringer
16 Tested for doneness, in a way
17 Glamorous
Gardner
18 Jazz Count
19 Fix up
20 Sign of
eloquence
23 ___ Fudd
24 Attaches another
clip
28 Steam sound
29 Duller of the
senses
32 Chou
En-___
33 Tevye player
35 A Virgin Island
37 Hero’s sine qua
non
photos from Mark Purcell and
shutterstock.com
Facility
• 12,000 Square Feet
• 20 Work Bays
Universal Crossword
40 Tom of fiction
41 Some winter
precipitation
42 Filmdom’s Dr.
Zaius, e.g.
43 Harangue
45 Theater box
49 Inquisition collar
51 Like Cheerios
52 Possession of the
generous
56 Cut partner
59 Oven entree,
perhaps
60 Ring cry
61 Lustful looker
62 Place for a place
setting
63 Shepherd’s place
64 Duck, duck follower
65 Welles of films
66 Blow one’s lines,
e.g.
DOWN
1 Makes hair stand
on end?
2 Forge items
3 150 followers of
Job
4 Claymore cousin
5 Apple
application, once
6 Cartoonist
Thomas
7 Wynken, Blynken
and Nod, e.g.
8 Egyptian
supreme god
9 Shoulder board
(Var.)
10 Loverboy
11 General-turnedpolitician
12 Cognizance
13 Recipe
instruction
21 Church room
22 Gears up
25 Soothing succulent
26 Arlene or Roald
27 Moral misstep
29 Run
30 Certain battery
term.
31 Admission of
defeat
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34 George M.
Cohan song
36 Travel downer
37 Wine valley
38 Spouted vessel
39 St. Pete’s place
40 Sink in the
middle
44 Close by
46 Peter in “The
Last Emperor’’
47 Uri with the
spoons
48 Win over
50 “Bellefleur’’
author
51 Time and again
53 Fire sound
54 Folder parts
55 Capital with lots
of fjord
explorers?
56 Fad disc of the
’90s
57 Reminiscer’s word
58 ___-mo