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From: "Willie Wonka" <alienspecimen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 11:14 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: OT $4 a gallon gas
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> John,
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> Your mileage gets that bad when you switch to winter tires?
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Sure does ............ but the softer rubber in winter tires means that you
can career around corners at higher speed than with the summer rubbers !
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> Garth,
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> Is this a TDI model?
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> I have a Golf K2 edition with 2.0l engine (declared a total loss by a mean
> insurance agent a couple of weeks ago...:( I was never able to better the
> advertised 31mpg on the highway.
31 mpg sounds crappy ............. best mileage I ever got was 79.9 miles
per imperial gallon of diesel in a mid 1980s well serviced plain jane
non-turbo VW Jetta on an early 1990s road trip from Penticton, BC south
through Washington state and then west on the Oregon side of the Columbia
River to the eastern outskirts of Portland.
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> I assume that a car sporting the VR6 would have worse mileage . Did you
> makeany modifications to it?
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> Boris (checking your numbahz while looking for a new cah...)
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> Subject: [OM] Re: OT $4 a gallon gas From: Garth Wood
> <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx[1]>
> Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 09:58:50 -0600 John Hudson wrote: >Garth
> ................ but what's your mileage per gallon ? >>Yesterday I
> changed
> over from winter to sumers tires and expect to get an >extra 7 to 10 miles
> a
> gallon on the summer rubber. >>I can't complain at close to 45mpg in the
> cityand ~60 on the highway. John: About 43 MPG (around 6.6 litres/100km)
> highway, typical summertime. It's a V6, after all. Mileage (er,
> "kilometreage"?) is worse in the city, and of course, worse with the
> winter
> tires. Not to mention the thick-as-cement lubrication from winter
> temperatures. ;-) I've never gotten better than around 5 litres/100km
> (about
> 57 MPG) on the highway, under absolutely *ideal* conditions (dead flat,
> dead
> straight, summertime and all-season radials, no headwind, and no
> surrounding
> traffic so's I can use the cruise control). As the vehicle ages, its fuel
> efficiency slowly drops. But after crunching the numbers (the curse of
> being
> an MBA majoring in Finance and Management Science), it's still much more
> economical to keep the car than sell it and buy one that's more
> fuel-efficient (but not by that much). Eventually, the spousal unit and I
> shall retire the vehicle and, as is appropriate for our advancing ages and
> changing needs, buy another, probably much smaller, one. As long as it's
> ergonomic -- I refuse to drive a car that's hard on the back or bum,
> regardless of its fuel efficiency. 8^> Garth
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