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Todays technology is really amazing when you think about it. I only get 10-12 mpg out of that honker 440 I am running in my Mopar, but I also have a fairly late model Corvette with a 300+horsepower 350 V8 that gets 28 mpg on the hwy and 18 or so around town.
Granted I can only carry myself and someone else riding shotgun and very little in the way of baggage, the point being, that car proves they CAN get decent fuel economy out of a performance V8. If only they would expend the effort to all vehicles.
If I had the money, I would shuck that 440 in a heartbeat and install one of those new Computer-controlled fuel injected Hemis that are coming out. Now THAT would be a combo.
Karl
Tom Stroup <tstroup@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
A few years ago, I would be content with 10-12 mpg, and 35cent gasoline.
I could go about 30 miles for a dollar and take 5 friends and all their
luggage, or a big tool box and floorjack and a set of mounted tires.
Where is the progress, today? A modern car is smaller, letting me haul
myself and only three friends, one small bag apiece and nothing else. If
I am lucky and go slowly, I may get 30 miles for a dollar of gas, but
usually less.
My 1994 Cherokee Grand Laredo is a V8 and full-time 4WD.
It has a "trip" computer on it that is pretty accurate. I haven't reset
it for a while, so my mpg figures cover a mixture of highway and local
miles. I don't drive slow. I'm showing 17.8 mpg and I believe it is
pretty accurate.
I would rather drive a forwardlook vehicle than a new one that gets
"maybe" a little better mileage, and can not haul anything like the
older vehicles can haul. I don't feel bad driving my Cherokee, either.
It is too bad the people who don't approve of my driving it, also
don't know the decent mileage it gets with a V8.
Tom
southern Ohio
"Mark J. Hash" wrote:
Although I'll never own an SUV 'cuz I'm too cheap to drive (on an everyday basis) a commuter vehicle that gets 10-12 mpg, the logic used by these people is indeed questionable. . .
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