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My 2005 New style 4 cylinder Malibu I bought in November of 2004 now has over 53,000 miles. The car still performs like a champ, and I recently got 39.9 mpg on cruise at 70 mpg for about a 70 mile trip. Keep your hybrids, and rice burners - I got you beat: in price, fuel economy and more. The VOLT is what I want next - bring it to us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Replying to: clarencehollow (Aug 15, 2007 11:46 am) A 70 mile trip means very little. It does not tell what the average Malibu owner may achieve over a longer period of time.
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Replying to: pulgo (Aug 15, 2007 12:21 pm)
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Replying to: gdubya2 (Aug 17, 2007 11:39 pm) Thanks for posting.
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First, a brief self-quote, from message #93 here: ,-- malexbu [ Jul 04, 2006 (9:53 pm) ] --- | I just returned from a five-day round-trip. Here is what I've got: | * Distance: 2741 miles | * Avg. speed: 59 mph | * Fuel used: 75.47 gallons | * Fuel economy computer reading: 38.6 mpg | * Fuel economy real: 36.32 mpg | Was going through the terrible (North-) Eastern rains, pouring over | the roads from MA to VA this past week. Was climbing the great Smoky | Mountains in NC and TN -- mostly in the left-most driving lane, both | in the mountains and on the roads with the posted speed limit of 70 | mph | 2005 Malibu Base Sedan. At the end of this August I had a similar trip -- only in my other 2005 Malibu Base Sedan. This time I was driving my child to the college, going from Boston to Nashville with two passengers in and the car loaded to the gills, and then back with one passenger and not much stuff in. Since the load of the car was very different going in the two directions, I accounted for them as two separate trips, resetting DIC in the beginning of each one. I also included driving in and around Nashville in the first trip. Here are my results, with MPG shown by DIC and calculated as Miles/Fuel in the two last columns of the following table: -------------------------------------------- Trip -- Miles -- Speed - Fuel -- DIC -- Real -------------------------------------------- MA-TN - 1202 --- 58 ---- 32.9 -- 37.3 - 36.52 TN-MA - 1142 --- 61 ---- 30.8 -- 38.6 - 37.05 -------------------------------------------- The car was performing flawlessly and provided all the comfort the family needed, with temperatures hovering in the 100 F vicinity in TN, and handling the Appalachian roads easily. The primary speed limiting factor was the fear of being pulled over by a cop, which almost happened in TN.
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Replying to: malexbu (Sep 28, 2007 4:38 pm) I was lamenting the demise of the 3.5 but rented an HHR last week and was pleased with the engine (sure I had the high output, but I sure wasn't going to put premium in it). Think things should be just fine with the new Bu and the four cylinder.
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Replying to: csandste (Sep 29, 2007 10:08 am) |
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Replying to: pulgo (Aug 18, 2007 10:18 am) |
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First tank has returned roughly 25mpg (guesstimating slightly, depending on whether the salesman filled the tank with 45 miles on the clock or with 46  ). This is mixed driving, stop and go, speed zones between 20 and 55 (me going up to 60) and trying to keep within the owner's manuals recommended 500 mile 'break-in' driving conditions. I anticipate easily breaking 30 when I resume my normal 90+ percent highway work route (31mi. one way, mountains of western NC). I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that had good experiences with the 04-07 Malibu's though. Somewhere around here (maybe even earlier in this topic) I have posted results from that car (2004 LT sedan 3.5l / 4 speed auto). The general gist, off the top of my head, was numbers ranging from 24mpg on the low side (heavy traffic during the holiday shopping seasons in Asheville NC) to just over 38 mpg on an all-highway trip to WV from western NC. Kinda makes me wonder if GM had decided to use the electrically assisted steering, if my 08 3.6l / 6 speed auto's numbers would've gone up another 1 or 2 mpg over wherever they end up. (It can't possibly all be attributed to the 3.5l pushrod for the 04, can it?) |
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