01 Aug 12 20:53, Mark Hofmann wrote to Roy Witt:



 RW>> My Z gets the best mileage possible. I filled it up two weeks ago
 RW>> and drove it over to the car wash and back home and parked it in the
 RW>> garage...it's still full.

 MH> My Monte Carlo gets an average of around 26-27mpg.  My computer
 MH> display shows 29.3mpg, but that doesn't account for being stopped at
 MH> lights and things.

It should. We had a 84 El Dorado that had that digital display and when
going east down the San Bernardino mountain downgrade, the display would
show pretty good mileage (plus it had an estimated range indicator that
also reflected good mileage). When we got out on the desert floor, the
display would begin counting backwards until it displayed the mileage it
was getting having to pull the car with the AC on. It averaged 27mpg on a
trip to Phoenix...I often wondered what that car could do with a Plymouth
or Dodge Daytona front end instead of the brick wall it was pushing
thorugh the air.

 MH> Not bad for a car of that size.  The 3.4L V-6 with the way the
 MH> transmission is geared is a nice combination.

On a trip to Illinois, I followed a friend up I-35 to De Moines,
IA. He was driving a 94 Nissan Maxima (V6-AOD) and we were in the Z28.
First gas stop we matched gallon for gallon, he used 12.1g and I used 12.3
gal...I credit the manual 6spd for that match.

 MH> It seems the Chargers and Challengers get around the same mpg -
 MH> provided you get the V-6 3.6L.

Yeah but, can you live with a V6 in a car like that? What does the same
car with a V8 and the 8spd OD get?

                R\%/itt


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