Made a change in my fleet..

[SteveSRT8]

Originally Posted By: Jarlaxle
Originally Posted By: SteveSRT8
Originally Posted By: Smokescreen
I have meticulous spreadsheets documenting my mileage. Once I get a few more fill-ups and develop some better average I will post up. If you don't believe my numbers I can't help that.

My last 5 fill-ups in the Corolla have been 43mpgUS+ my running average is much higher than EPA...The LeSabre is also well above EPA. It's all about driving style.


Since our newest fleet van can easily achieve 16-17 mpg on the highway at over 9000 pounds I believe him. The 6.0 has effortless torque and can be very easy on fuel...


You have the new 6L90 transmission. He has the old 4L80E. No comparison!


Top gear is almost the same overdrive ratio, .75 in the 4 speed and .66 in the 6 speed. The only difference is our newer vans have 3.42's instead of 3.73's as the 6L90E has a very low first gear. That rear gear doesn't help much in the city.

I've gotten 16 in a 4L80E van before with a 6.0. Just takes a careful driver...

 

[CT Rob]

My 2002 Silverado Hd 4wd with 6.0 liter and 4.10s,never did better than 11mpg no matter how easy I drove it.Neighbor owns it now.

 

[Patman]

Originally Posted By: geeman789



My dad still converts everything back to MPG, even though gas is sold by the liter, odometer is in kilometers and all speed limits are in kilometers per hour... for the last 30 + years. Old dogs, I guess.


I still use MPG for my gas mileage calculations too. I never liked the L/100km measurement, and since I do so much posting on US based websites it makes better sense for me to quote my figures the same way as 99% of the posters are doing. In my Corvette, the trip computer calculates it in MPG for me, and in my Civic I have a Scangauge which I also leave set to MPG instead of L/100km. I actually have the driver information center in my Corvette set to imperial instead of metric so that all my readouts are in fahrenheit, MPH, MPG, etc. So my heads up display shows my speed in MPH. I'm 44 years old, so Canada has been metric as long as I've been driving, but I do remember the changeover from imperial (I believe I was 8 or 9 years old when it happened here)

 

[geeman789]

Originally Posted By: Hokiefyd


Smokescreen lives in Alberta, Canada, and was talking about a 50 deg F drive. His A/C use is probably minimal, which automatically gets him a 15%+ gain on me right from the beginning. Alberta is probably thinly-populated compared with southern North Carolina, so I bet his average speed is much higher than mine. Could I get 20 mpg in a 2500 with a 6.0L V-8 in Fayetteville, NC, with the A/C cranked? Probably not. There's no way I'd be able to do it in hilly western Virginia. Could I do it up in Canada? Maybe.


Alberta has almost 4 million people, with about 2.5 million concentrated in the two largest cities, CALGARY and EDMONTON.

So, yes, MOST of ALBERTA is thinly populated, but the major cities are just like any other large city in North America.

Urban sprawl, traffic jams, smog etc.

And, occasional bouts of - 40 f , temps in the winter, bet you don't have that, do ya...!