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Mileage 200 1988

posted by  dbrick on  Mon Aug 29 19:15 CST 2011
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My kid has the 240 now, and came to visit this weekend. This morning, he drove back to Santa Barbara. His mileage report:

From King City to Santa Barbara I did a test. I tried to keep the speedometer precisely at 60 -- but my speedo is fast, so I think it was really about 55mph. Anyway, flat, long stretches, and I made an extreme effort to avoid accelerating or decelerating. It was a test. Empty car, no wind, no a/c, 55mph, and basically no acceleration: back home the car took only 4-point-something gallons. I calculated 43 mpg. I shit you not. In my '88 volvo.
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David Brick, Santa Cruz CA, 1988 245






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