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Originally Posted by biggbn
Covered 280miles since Wednesday, very mixed conditions, town, country roads, dual carriageway, 34mpg. Happy with that and reckon I will beat it next week when I have an 800mile week.
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That is impressive, 'biggbn'. Our 9000 Griffin with the 3.0 V6 N/A motor and auto trans averages around 26 - 27 MPG overall. Like you, we appreciate the low down 'grunt' and smooth power delivery of these engines; much more pleasant than the 2.3 FPT, which had the same specific output but a switch for an accelerator!
As we cover very few miles these days the actual MPG returned are not as important to us as they once were. None of our cars does more than 3 - 4K a year, so fuel costs are not especially significant in the grand scheme of things. When I was doing upwards of 40K p.a. I took a different view!
Regards, John.