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Subject:Re: Mileage ?
From:Marshall Ruskin
Date:Thu, 30 Dec 1999 20:08:17 -0600

One must make certain one is not mixing Imperial gallons (Canadian gallons,
about 20% bigger, seriously), with US gallons, when one makes comparisons.

Marshall Ruskin>I have a 1991 Carat WLE automatic with a Canadian rebuilt
with 80,000 miles.
>I'm in the land of 90K per hour, so that about 55ish.  I get 22 MPG or so.
>Sometimes close to 23 other times just above 21.   When I run the air
>conditoning it stays about 1 to 2 MPG lower.
>
>If all I do is drive in the City I get 19 MPG regardless of what is on or
how
>much load.
>
>We normally have the two kids and my wife and I, and most time the dog. So
>our payload is around 700 lbs.  The title says the vehicle's weight is 3425
>lbs. I run 205 Firestone PR 440's.  Not a tire I'd buy again, not round
>enough for me.  But my milage was the same with the last set of tires too.
>
>
>
>Bill wrote:
>
>> We don't do better than that with our '81 auto Westy.  14 is about it.
>>
>> At 01:44 AM 12/29/99 EST, Charles Hokanson wrote:
>> >Are all these numbers for manuals? I am only getting 14+ in my
automatic.
>> >Charlie.
>> >
>> Bill (SE Arizona) (Bill@freeholder.com) HTTP://www.freeholder.com
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>> Censorship is the assassination of ideas.  No matter how well-meaning its
>> proponents may be, they are more dangerous to us than any outside enemy.
>

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