Thought this may be of interest to some and a few pictures from Europe.

GPS reset at Le Mans



1393 kms = 865'

Av cons 27.5 UK mpg. (22.8 US mpg).

* Disclaimer - the top speed was of course on a private closed road....



a few pics

Le Mans



The airtrack camp site was at Chateau Durand - This exceptional race was first run in 1923, created by Georges Durand, a native son of Le Mans mad about cars - sadly the chateau is in disrepair.

Mulsanne straight was open when we left on Monday - brilliant...







Nice overnight stop in Biarritz





Used a new route through Spain via Teruel - great road and toll free. Unfortunately hit a Thunderstorm/cloudburst in \Sagunto - while it cleaned the car it slowed us to 40mph for 50 mins.

Fantastic run down but nice to arrive at the villa though!

 

Great pics and good mpg! I have been averaging 16.7 in my daily commute to work. Surface streets 70% of the time. On road trips I've gotten as high at 25mpg though.

 

6.4 average yesterday over ~100 miles

daily driving going to/from work seems to be around 18 now

LeMans looks cool! Thanks for sharing

 

That is great Mileage. Mine is still under 500 miles, pretty bad so fare about 12 to 16.

 

Going 85mph on i70.... not too shabby for a blown 4.6 ..

 

Mine says im getting 12.5mpg lol, its up from 11mpg! I drive %100 streets and i hate luging my car around town in 6th gear. I haven't had one full tank were i didn't go wot at least a few times. Next tank i will baby her and try for better mpg.

 

I get an average of 16 mpg in the city and 25-26 on the freeway. I've gotten my car to 28.1 mpg, but that was cruising at about 60mph.

34K miles so far.

 

Here's a real world example for you. We just did a 15 day National Parks tour and the spreadsheet below shows the results. A lot of it was at substantial altitude and we did go over a pass that is just shy of 11,000 feet. I was not pushing it, but some of the highway cruising in Montana was at about 82.

 

Yup. Altitude helps with mpg's. When I drove from here to KC, the mpg's drop with lower altitude. Means at sea level you get 22mpg while at 5000ft you get 25.
Same speed cruise control... Think about why airplanes cruise as high as possible?
LEXiiON

 

16 in the city, 24 on the highway for me.

 

Update:
Ok so i reset my average mpg gauge and it turns out it was stuck at 12.5mpg. Now that its working again it shows 18mpg city, i had to baby it on the way home from work to get that. Actually it took a lot of luging and self control, whew i was getting worried. I wonder why it was stuck at 12.5 ooh well!

 

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