Anybody done a mpg based build?
#21
03-06-2012, 11:29 PM
Exactly my thinking. Another member is selling his Monte to get a new Mustang with a V-6 so he will get better gas mileage. I'm thinking, okay now you will have monthly payments and have to carry full coverage ins. So you will be spending about $300 a month to save on fuel. How many years will you have to go to even break even if ever with the new monthly monetary output versus keeping your paid off car and spending an extra $100 a month on fuel at the high fuel price rate. I mean if you want a new car, you want a new car, but just to save on fuel costs is not thinking it through. I have read where people who buy the hybrid cars really never win just based on the initial very high cost of the car.
#22
03-07-2012, 12:25 PM
I took a 2 hour trip up to duluth yesterday to take my specials boiler test, filled up gas before hitting the freeway i'll be filling it up before i go to work today so i'll check and see what my average was. I was doing 75mph all the freeway time tachometer was sitting just a hair shy of 2,500 rpm.
my last car with the 3800 averaged about 25-27 combined in the summer, same with my 91 lumina with the 3.1
#23
03-07-2012, 11:38 PM
drove 238 miles the last 24 hours, aprox. 78 of those miles were highway/town the rest were freeway my mpg for that tank was 26.6. tires were inflated at 40psi (i don't usually do that btw) the weather was between 30-40degrees during driving
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