Well, a Vanagon is pretty good for carrying a bicycle and then doing
both driving and riding!
Your 1.9 should get 20mpg pretty easily at 65mph or less. Very careful
driving should get 23-24 in some instances. If you are only getting 16,
something is wrong.
Al Brase

Mike Miller wrote:

>If we cared, really, we'd being walking.
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>Barefoot.
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>Mike
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>>So I have my 85 westy with manual transmission running about as perfect as
>>this human is able to  get it----and I get 16 miles to the gallon.  I have
>>worked methodically through my 20's list (the things that I was doing to
>>get my vehicle to get 20 MPG, but after working through it  I'm faced with
>>the probability that that ain't never going to happen (unless I go to a
>>different engine).  I love my beast but I get ridiculed by friends who
>>drive really horrible cars (eg, Pontiac firebirds and Cadillac eldorado's,
>>really ugly and old cars that I look at as environmental disasters) but get
>>better gas mileages than I do.  I have taken to mumbling when people ask me
>>about the gas mileage, so that 16 MPG sounds something like 26 MPG.  I
>>carry a heavy burden in this matter because I parade myself (in some
>>circles) as an "environmentalist" and people who know what I drive ain't
>>buying it.  My wife told me that if I gave a sh** about the environment I
>>would be driving a Prius.  I carry this burden as best I can but it is hell
>>to love a vehicle that gets such poor mileage.
>>Should I auction it off on Ebay or say to hell with the critics???
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>>Don
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