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Old Feb 27, 2014 | 10:48 AM
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How far do you drive your monte or beater car to work? I drive aprox maybe 5-10 miles to work, maybe less . Might change however.
 
Old Feb 27, 2014 | 11:02 AM
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Nice topic. I used to drive 45 miles a day to work. Now I drive 9.5 each way.
 
Old Feb 27, 2014 | 11:03 AM
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I drive a 35 mile one-way to work every weekday and sometimes saturdays. Adds up to about 350-420 miles a week, about 1600 miles a month, about 20,000 miles a year just to work.

@28mpg (I do all highway @ 57mph), and $3.50 per gallon, that costs me $2,730 a year just to get to work and back. Never mind the pleasure driving.
 
Old Feb 27, 2014 | 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Monte_Man04
I drive a 35 mile one-way to work every weekday and sometimes saturdays. Adds up to about 350-420 miles a week, about 1600 miles a month, about 20,000 miles a year just to work.

@28mpg (I do all highway @ 57mph), and $3.50 per gallon, that costs me $2,730 a year just to get to work and back. Never mind the pleasure driving.
I wish I got 28 mpg highway haha. My tune puts me closer to about 22-25.
 
Old Feb 27, 2014 | 11:13 AM
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To work I drive maybe 2 miles, to school 25 miles one way.
 
Old Feb 27, 2014 | 11:17 AM
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I currently drive 4-5 miles to work right now and all of that is city driving. I get maybe 12MPG lol. I only put about 4,000 miles a year on my cars.
 
Old Feb 27, 2014 | 11:21 AM
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I only drive 2 blocks to get to work, the problem is that I have to drive for work, which could easily be a couple hundred kilometers a day, depending on the day, so I try to save up all the long distance driving for nice days and enjoy the drive, the one positive is that I get paid kms when I am driving for work so at least I get compensated for gas and some repairs
 
Old Feb 27, 2014 | 11:22 AM
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I drive 5 tops...no highway, my mpg is 15-16.....smh
 
Old Feb 27, 2014 | 11:51 AM
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How are all you 6th gens getting worst MPG than my 7th gen? lol. I avg maybe 16-18 street and 24-28 highway. Im going to seafoam my engine/crank/gas and do a early tune up to help my baby a bit more. Your v6's should be getting better mpg!

And wow 35 miles to and from? Or does that contain both?
 
Old Feb 27, 2014 | 11:59 AM
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Lol I have a 7th gen so I have a reason to say my MPG's are bad. Doing all city driving and not being able to keep my foot out of the gas should explain why I only avg about 12MPG's
 



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