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#1834 of 1837 New Record? by ateixeira Aug 26, 2009 (11:24 am)
Highs and lows for me, almost back-to-back.   We spent a week in Ocean City, and my son was in camp, 140 blocks away. With a traffic light every 3 blocks, the stopping was brutal, I feel like my brake pads must need to be changed. Probably the worst city traffic I've ever driven in, and my Sienna returned 20.4mpg.   Filled it up on the way home, though, and drove speed limits since the MDX following us didn't seem to keep up if we sped. Any how, did that with light traffic on the way home and average a phenomenal 31.3mpg !
#1835 of 1837 2006 3.3L V-6 Grand Caravan Extended Trip Mileage by badgerfan Sep 10, 2009 (8:28 am)
Took an extended vacation to the desert southwest from Wisconsin in late April, driving our 2006 Grand Caravan. Overall fuel economy was 23.44. Best tank was 26.58. Worst tank was 20.99.    Several legs of the trip included extensive mountain driving during which the fuel economy interestingly didn't suffer much. In fact the worst tank was on the drive west from St Louis to Tulsa. We must have had strong head winds during that stretch. We generally kept the speed on the freeway stretches at the speed limit of 70 or 75 mph in the western plains.    I am pleased with the mileage, given the size of this vehicle. The 3.3 V-6 had all it could handle in the mountain driving, and if I drove in those conditions on a regular basis, would consider a larger engine version, but in our normal fairly flat daily driving, it is just fine. No vehicle problems during the trip whatsoever. It is only now at 31K on the odometer. Replies to this message: marine2 (Sep 12, 2009 12:19 am)
#1836 of 1837 2 more trips in our 07 Sienna LE FWD by ateixeira Sep 10, 2009 (11:53 am)
To and from the beach.   Going there I had to haul paver base, 30 bags the first time (~50 lbs each), 25 the 2nd trip. Still managed ~26mpg.   Coming back we had no load and my wife drove - she averaged 28.5 mpg.   Still loving this engine.
#1837 of 1837 Re: 2006 3.3L V-6 Grand Caravan Extended Trip Mileage [badgerfan] by marine2 Sep 12, 2009 (12:19 am)
Replying to: badgerfan (Sep 10, 2009 8:28 am) I just got back last week from a trip to Ohio, from Arizona and back. About 2100 miles one way.   I have a 2005 Dodge GC with the 3.8. We carried four people plus luggage. I averaged about 23mpg on the trip. Mountains didn't seem to bother the 3.8 one bit. Although I turned my cruise off when climbing them and coming down. I think it helped my mileage doing that.   I have gotten as high as 28.41 mpg - to 19.8mpg. I checked it with a calculator and over head computer. They were pretty close to each other.   I did get stuck several times in road construction where I had to sit and idle. Happy with what I got with the load I had on.

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