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#105686 - 09/14/07 08:16 PM Re: 10 tips to stretch your car fuel mileage [Re: Susan]
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I don't believe it either.

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#105687 - 09/14/07 08:53 PM Re: 10 tips to stretch your car fuel mileage [Re: frenchy]
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Anyway, if you ever make a trip to Paris, PM me beforehand... I'll see what can be done... I would never let a fellow ETSer suffer from dehydration....


Good to know!

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#105688 - 09/14/07 09:45 PM Re: 10 tips to stretch your car fuel mileage [Re: Blast]
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You're welcome...
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#105695 - 09/14/07 10:56 PM Re: 10 tips to stretch your car fuel mileage [Re: frenchy]
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Sorry, this was driving me nuts. Okay, so each bottle of wine is 750ml. At 350 bottles thats 262,500ml or 262.5L. And 1L = 1Kg.

So the total weight in Frenchy's car was 262.5 Kilograms or 577.5 lbs. Unless I screwed up the conversion, thats a lot of wine. grin If we're ever on a road trip I'm ridin with Frenchy.

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#105698 - 09/14/07 11:02 PM Re: 10 tips to stretch your car fuel mileage [Re: LED]
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"Not drunk by me alone, but also friends and co-workers."

Oh, sure! We all believe that, don't we, guys?

The Truth: We all talk about storing water, and here's Frenchy, storing 262.5L of wine... per LOAD!

Sue

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#105711 - 09/15/07 12:45 AM Re: 10 tips to stretch your car fuel mileage [Re: Susan]
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Registered: 08/03/07
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The Truth: We all talk about storing water, and here's Frenchy, storing 262.5L of wine... per LOAD!


I think thats a great idea !! smirk

TEOTWAWKI and Frenchy would'nt know about it for at least a year wink

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#105743 - 09/15/07 09:51 AM Re: 10 tips to stretch your car fuel mileage [Re: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor]
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OK, guys and girls ! I see I can't fool you ..... grin

Just for the thread's sake, I have to rectify LED's calculations :
a Sancerre bottle is a bit more than 1.3kg. So total load (driver not included) for the car is in the 460/470kg range.
I didn't check my car's comsumption with such a load, at 80mph.

As for the 58mpg I mentioned, that's my car's average consumption all year round. I mainly drive in/around Paris and on highways (highest consumptions).
On smaller flat roads, at 56mph (max allowed), my car drinks around 5.5 liters/100km or less. More than I do .... grin

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#106194 - 09/19/07 12:49 AM Re: 10 tips to stretch your car fuel mileage [Re: SouthDakotan]
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Originally Posted By: SouthDakotan
Although I doubt that he can get a ranger to do 84mpg I think they can do better than 20. At a nearby dealership they had some 4 cyl(did the guy say which engine his had) ranger that claimed 27mpg highway although I sometimes question that one.


I had a 1988 S10, same size as a ranger. It was a 2.5L TBI 4 cylinder with 5 speed manual transmission and 4x4. It was a regular cab (no rear seat short cab), short bed (6') and plain, no ac, bench seat, etc. I had an aluminum cap and carried all kinds of tools and gear in the bed and regularly hit 27mpg even with 150k miles on the odometer. I had a 20gallon tank and could make the 500 round trip to my parents house and back in one tank. I'd still be driving it with well over 200k miles now if I didn't need a bigger cab. So getting 27 from a 4 popper ranger is doable.

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#106195 - 09/19/07 12:52 AM Re: 10 tips to stretch your car fuel mileage [Re: Susan]
Eugene Offline
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Originally Posted By: Susan
84 mpg in a standard Ford Ranger??? I don't believe it.

A 2008 6-cylinder Ford Ranger is advertised to get 20 mpg on the highway. That figure is from the Ford Motor Co., so we'll assume they don't give away anything they don't have to.

They don't measure the fuel consumption on the road, but in a lab, where the truck wheels are mounted on rollers, a rolling treadmill that goes 60 mph. There is no road resistance, no wind resistance, no grades, no extremes of temperature, no use of A/C or heater, no multiple passengers, no tools, no BOB.

And they don't even use gasoline, but something called 'indolene clear' that's just for use in labs, for emission testing.

The Bluewater Network (a California-based environmental group) says those window stickers can overstate fuel mileage as much as 34%.

84 mpg? Nope. I just don't believe it. Unless it's being towed.

Sue



While 84 sounds high I was able to get close to 30 in an S10 which was a boxy 4x4 even. The 6 cylinder trucks typically get the same mileage as 8 cylinder trucks.


Edited by Eugene (09/19/07 12:53 AM)

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