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The reason I ask, is that as a joke one time, I kept adding a gallon or two of gas to my next door neighbor's tank each night. He'd just bought a new Toyota and was exceptionally proud of it. My other neighbors were in on the joke. We'd all get him talking and started laughing as he went on and on about how incredibly efficient his brand new Toyota was. After he was getting upwards of 50 mpg for a few weeks, we started siphoning out a gallon or so at night, dropping him down to 15 mpg. He got really red-faced when we asked him how the Toyota was doing a week or so after that. I think he actually took it to a dealer and screamed at them that he'd been getting 50 mpg the first month he had it and demanded to know what was wrong with the car now. They checked it out, of course, and told him that his reported mileage was impossible, that he'd made a mistake, etc., which really infuriated him.
We played with him for a bit and then finally confessed our sins to him. He was actually getting ready to sell the car. It took him a day or so, but when he finally believed us, he had a good laugh -- and we immediately began plotting some new prank for the new guy moving in down the block.
Anyway, Tim... I just let you in on this in case someone's playing with you. Might be a family member adding in an extra gallon when you're not looking. Does anyone else drive it?
That's also not to say it isn't impossible for you to get that sort of mileage. If you drive very conservatively, have hard, narrow tires, use synthetic lubricants, draft behind trucks on the highway, and don't let the car idle at traffic lights or do city stop-and-go driving, you might well see that kind of mileage. I've gotten as high as 31 with my '87 900T on one leg of a highway trip, but I average around 27-28 in mixed driving. That was after doing some SPG9 mods to the engine that improved the performance significantly. Your non-turbo might be capable of 35 or so on the highway. Hopefully it's not running too lean and isn't doing itself damage. Congratulations if that's what you're getting.
But get a locking gas cap, just in case.
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