258k+ Miles And Still Going Strong

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09-05-2005, 08:29 PM

Armelius

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258k+ Miles And Still Going Strong

just traveled slightly over 2k miles on the freeway doing average of 70 miles an hour I got 30.8 mpg. When I was averaging about 60 mpg my gas mileage was about 31.2 mpg. This is having two stops per fill up and with the air conditioning on.

09-06-2005, 04:53 AM

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Nice, that motor was running great.

09-06-2005, 05:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Armelius

...When I was averaging about 60 mpg my gas mileage was about 31.2 mpg...

what? do you mean 60 mph? thats pretty impressive.

09-06-2005, 06:52 AM

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I love to see Maximas that run so well with so many miles. You must take impeccable care of her. Congrats!

09-06-2005, 06:57 AM

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Yeah, typo. At 60 mph I was getting 31.2 mpg. At 70 mph I was getting 30.8 mpg. That was for 1000 miles. On the way back I had the car loaded and got the same gas mileage but instead of going north I came back south.

09-06-2005, 06:59 AM

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good to hear she running good in her older age.

09-06-2005, 07:18 AM

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What amazes me is that I had a turbo 4 cyl in the 80's that got 27 mpg at 170 hp. Now a 95 that gets 30 mpg with 190 hp, so it should be that a 2000+ car should be getting 33 mpg at about 210 hp.