On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Germain wrote: > May be you can get 25mpg with a manual Westy but I wonder you can get > more than that. I routinely get 25 mpg with mine, but it's a diesel. I might be able to eke out a bit more if I had better injectors, better fuel, or a 1.9L diesel with a gasoline van transmission (for the higher gear ratios.) I doubt I would ever see 30 mpg, though, unless I drove 40 mph all the time. ;) > Infortunately this van is not burning gas as a compact car. Nope...mostly because it has twice the drag coefficient, twice the frontal area, and half again the weight. ;> Even modern minivans rarely get better than low 20's fuel economy, and full-sized vans are lucky to get numbers in the high teens. Our Vanagons are sort of in between -- they're sized much like a minivan but have the weight and load-carrying capacity of a full-sized van. David Brodbeck, N8SRE '82 Diesel Westfalia '94 Honda Civic Si |
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