Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wjh12.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!genrad!wjh12!mhg From: mhg@wjh12.UUCP (Goldstein) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: mileage Message-ID: <431@wjh12.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 14:03:28 EST Article-I.D.: wjh12.431 Posted: Mon Mar 19 14:03:28 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Mar-84 01:41:47 EST Organization: Harvard University PSR, Cambridge MA Lines: 25 Here's more numbers: '81 Chevy Citation: High - 34 45 -55mph cruise through norhtern mass. low - 23 winter city shuffle. avg. 29 mostly highway this past summer car is the 4 cyl. with a 4 speed. It may need a new oxygen sensor which would boost the mileage a bit which has dropped a lot since november but I haven't had this car over a winter yet. '72 Saab 99: avg 27mpg. mostly rural driving. Car was a fuel injection with slush drive. It also needed a new head gasket as mpg dropped to 23. '71 Saab 99: avg 29. High was a 32 when the timing had slipped and was ridiculously advanced. Dropped to 23 when the head warped. '78 diesel rabbit : 50mpg avg in rural/small town driving. '80 diesel rabbit 5 speed. 47mpg avg 57 on highway. Note: despite the extra gear, dad's 5 speed (which also American) always seemed slower than Mom's