We get about 29 MPG in our 1.6NA Westy. Our 1.9NA Diesel Vanagon does
about 27 or 28.

Jon

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Jim Felder wrote:

> I once got 27.8 with my turbo, it seemed to get as good or better
> mileage than the NA because you didn't have to wring it out so hard
> to keep up with traffic, I guess. I get about 26-27 with the NA in a
> westy. On the diesel vanagon group at Yahoo!, the range for a non-
> westy is usually about 30, some report a little higher.
>
> Jim
>
> On Jul 21, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Alistair Bell wrote:
>
> > My best with the na 1.6 was about 410 miles per tankful.
> >
> > I think its was 55 liters to refill, that's 14.53 US gallons so...
> >
> > 410/14.53 = 28.21 miles per US gal.
> >
> > I think prob was a touch less than that, but its a ballpark est.
> >
> > Alistair
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94
> > http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/
> >
> > On 21-Jul-06, at 1:50 PM, Jason Willenbrock wrote:
> >
> > i have heard of people getting 28-30 mpg for non westy diesels, but
> > have
> > never owned one so can't confirm that.  i just put up with the 17.5 i
> > get
> > with my 87 syncro westy.
> > jason
> > so many roads to ease my soul...
> >
> >
> >> From: Zoltan <zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET>
> >> Reply-To: Zoltan <zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET>
> >> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >> Subject: Diesel Westy how many mpg
> >> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:37:16 -0700
> >>
> >> I was wondering what the Diesel Westy's mpg would be.  Not turbo.
> >> Anyone?
> >> Zoltan
> >
>