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Replying to: andre1969 (Oct 13, 2009 4:36 am)
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Replying to: lemko (Oct 13, 2009 4:44 am) Back in 2008, I had to drive the 5th Ave up for Spring Carlisle when the Intrepid died. It rained something fierce all the way home, and the tires on that car are, to put it nicely, "marginal". I was probably averaging 45-55 mph all the way home, probably never got above 60. Thankfully the rain was fierce enough to make everybody slow down, so I wasn't holding up traffic at those speeds. Anyway, on that trip home, I got 18.3 mpg. Yet this past weekend, running more like 65-75 mph, depending on traffic, and even hitting 80-85 a couple times, I still managed 18. |
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Replying to: andre1969 (Oct 13, 2009 5:08 am) I think gas here has fallen a dime or so in the past few weeks...I think I paid around $3.10 for Chevron premium. |
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Replying to: andre1969 (Oct 13, 2009 5:08 am) Plus, there would be tank-to-tank measuring error, which you can't do anything about, since you only take it on long trips a couple of times a year. Now if you want halfway across the country and back (probably not what you'd want to do with a 30-year-old car  ), you'd have more accuracy after averaging several fill-ups.
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Replying to: 210delray (Oct 13, 2009 8:16 am) Yeah, just a 3-speed automatic, but it has a tall 2.45:1 axle ratio, so at mid-range speeds it's pretty quick to downshift to second, which is a 1.45:1 ratio (for a multiplication of ~3.55:1) At higher speeds it's torquey enough to just stay in 3rd. Plus, there would be tank-to-tank measuring error, which you can't do anything about, since you only take it on long trips a couple of times a year. I always try to top the car off, and as soon as the pump shuts off, I'll usually try to round up just a bit, to the next 5 or 10 cents. Still, I realize those pumps can vary when they shut off. I wonder how much it can vary from tank to tank? It has a 21 gallon tank. I wonder if it could vary by as much as a gallon, from fill up to fill up? I've recorded over 20 mpg three times with the car. Got 22.5 on the day I bought the car, bringing it home from West Va. Got 21.9 in 2008 when I drove up to the Mopar Nats in Carlisle. And just this past summer, I got 21.4 doing that same trip. On those trips when I go directly out to Carlisle, the terrain is more level. This past weekend and the weekend before I went to Harrisburg, around the Baltimore Beltway and up I-83, and that route's a lot more hilly. I've also tracked overall mpg for the car since I bought it back in October 2001. A somewhat depressing 11.5 mpg, overall. 
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Replying to: andre1969 (Oct 13, 2009 9:09 am) |
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Replying to: andre1969 (Oct 13, 2009 9:09 am) did you try to pump up the tires? 11.5 is worse than my kids get driving the explorer. 239 hp v8 4wd with 3.73 axle ratio and a 300 watt system with subwoofer. the louder the music, the worse the mileage. RUG is touch under 2.50. |
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The station I usually buy at bumped up 2 cents to $2.47 which is what almost every other station in town was at. But several other stations dropped to $2.45 and one went down to $2.43 Screwy |
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| I returned home yesterday after 5687 miles in my Sequoia. Average for trip 17.93 MPG. Average cost for RUG $2.47. Cheapest gas in Indiana, Kentucky & Missouri. Low price $2.17 in MO. Highest CA at $2.99. Cost about 14 cents per mile. Very pleasant comfortable drive. Glad to be home. | |
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Gas at my local discount place jumped 17 cents in 4 days from $2.46 to $2.63 for RUG. What's up with that? Oil was up around $78 bbl. yesterday. Are we going to have this speculator crap happen again? With everybody still out of work I don't think we can blame it on the SUVs anymore. Maybe Soros needs a new boat. 
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