At 05:37 AM 5/3/2005, you wrote: >You might bump it up a half mile per gallon more by cruising at no moe >than 55 mph and addiing type F fluid to the trans to help the clutches >grab better, but you'll hardly never see 16 mpg. in an automatic >Vanagon. > >If someone makes ridiculous claims otherwise, they are blatantly >pevaricating. Call me a prevaricator, but over the course of 6 months and 2000+ miles before I had a head stud snap, I consistently got 18-19mpg from mine (auto transmission, over 200K miles on original engine). Flat highway driving at 55-60mph would get it to 19 and change, only ever breaking 20 if there was a downhill slope to it. City driving brought the average down, but I never did enough to get a good idea of what the mpg was. Mileage was recorded via GPS, so I wasn't a victim of an over-enthusiastic odometer. An auto westy might never see above 16, but a GL certainly could do better than that. |
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