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dittos on the 'speed below 70' thread ... Posted by John Fitzgerald [Email] (#77) [Profile/Gallery] (more from John Fitzgerald) on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:53:37 In Reply to: 9k 2.3L Average MPG's?, johnn, Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:54:57 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
as we get 28 - 29 mpg in mixed rural/city driving w/ a 97 Aero 5 speed.
on the 97 Aero 5 speed.
Best tanks [back to back] were a few years ago driving across Michigan and the UP on a trip - mostly two lane roads, cruising at 60 mph or so, light winds [but no tailwinds]: 33, 30, 35, and 32 mpg [US units]. And these are actual mpgs, not the optimistic EDU which seems to exaggerate by about 8% to 10%. So that makes the "max tank range": 630 w/ a half gallon reserve.
I am pretty hyper about all synthetic fluids and do change the plugs at 12k mi., use good tires, etc, but the only car mods are a K&N air filter and a less restrictive Fox SS exhaust [OEM diameter - 60mm?].
Talk about crummy mileage: how about a '01 Suburban [5.3 l] towing our old 34' Airstream across South Dakota last year. 9 mpg, with tailwinds, in the 'flatland', although we're close to 80 mph to 'make time'. For that matter, the 9 mpg is probably not that bad considering the truck alone seldom gets better than 14.5 mpg no matter how carefully [or slowly] it's driven cross-country. Frontal area, drag, and 2.5 tons [+ a 4.10 rear end for trailering].
John
Burlington, Wisc
'73 96 RHD sold after four years in Middle Barton, Oxfordshire, UK
'80 99 sold after 20 years/192,000mi
'86 9kT sold after 12 years/approx 121,000 mi
'87 9kT sold after 9 years/approx 174,000
'97 CSE 253,000 - given to my son, but I still work on it
'97 Aero 206,xxx
and a couple of 'non-Saabs':
'01 Suburban 122,xxx
'03 BMW 330 Cic 40,xxx
_______________________________________ John Burlington, Wisc '73 96 RHD sold after four years in Middle Barton, Oxfordshire, UK '80 99 bought new, sold after 20 years/192,000mi '86 9kT picked up at Trollhatten, sold after 12 years/approx 121,000 mi '87 9kT sold after 9 years/approx 174,000 mi '94 CSE given to my son after 8 years @ 245k; he sold it at 254k mi '95 Aero 146,xxx mi sold '98 CSE 248,xxx mi gave it away '97 Aero 317,xxx mi my daughter’s school car … gave away [we put 300k mi on it] still driving: '97 CSE 170xxx mi 'project car' for myself and my daughters to drive '07 9-3 2.0T 240xxx '08 9-5 191xxx mi my wife's daily driver and a couple of 'non-Saabs': '01 Suburban 201,xxx mi '03 BMW 330 Cic 84,xxx mi '14 Mercedes E350 103,xxx mi
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