Ain't that the truth. My '88 GMC S15 2.8l was underpowered on the highway but regularly turned in 25mpg and was great in the woods. My wife is going from a 3 mile commute to about 15 miles and I'm a bit concerned about her spending everything she makes in fuel (well not that bad but you get the idea). She drives my Dakota which does around 18mpg. Theory 1 has me making my own frankenheap but my 240D only averaged around 28mpg which would barely pay for the added insurance and fees although it'd be handy to have a 3rd car. The other idea is to buy a new vehicle, something small that gets better mileage. Gotta be 4wd so I can tow my snowmobile trailers and go to camp. Best thing I've found so far is a Suzuki Vitara or Chevy Tracker 2 door convertable. Those are rated for 26mpg on the highway which is okay but I'm not sure its better enough to make it worth buying another vehicle while my Dakota still has plenty of miles in it... -Curt Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:24:45 -0400 From: "Mike Canfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Anyone Have Carfax? To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original
They average around 14 or 15 in town driving and 18-19 highway. I get near that with my 7100# conversion van. 15 at 55MPH pulling a 36 foot camper actually. My 5700# M37 gets 12 local........Seems they could do allot better is all I am saying. Mike --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1ยข/min. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 02 18:39:03 2006 Received: from mxa.windwireless.net ([199.164.167.40]) by server8.arterytc8.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G8LcV-0004nf-R8 for mercedes@okiebenz.com; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:39:03 +0000 Received: from dogear.com (jimc.progress.wi-fi.windwireless.net [206.63.94.197] (may be forged)) by mxa.windwireless.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k72IdX5W026510 for <mercedes@okiebenz.com>; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:39:33 -0700 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:38:57 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) From: Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) X-Virus-Scan: smtp-vilter X-SMTP-Vilter-Version: 1.1.0rc2 X-SMTP-Vilter-Backend: Clam AntiVirus Daemon (clamd) X-SMTP-Vilter-Status: clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0rc4 (mxa.windwireless.net [199.164.167.40]); Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:39:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Subject: Re: [MBZ] Anyone Have Carfax? X-BeenThere: mercedes@okiebenz.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7.cp2 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_okiebenz.com.okiebenz.com> List-Unsubscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: </pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com> List-Post: <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:39:04 -0000 > but you get the idea). She drives my Dakota which does around 18mpg. > Theory 1 has me making my own frankenheap but my 240D only averaged > around 28mpg which would barely pay for the added insurance and fees > although it'd be handy to have a 3rd car. You call that a frankenheap? How about this: Put a sprinter engine in your Dakota. -- Jim