Re: [MBZ] fuel mileage was Re: Now, a liar on craigslist...

2007-05-23 Thread Gary Thompson
My 75 Blazer with 400 and full time 4-wheel drive never met a gas pump it didn't like. I used to get roughly 8MPG. Didn't seem to matter what I was pulling, though. Gary Thompson 1995 E320 On 5/22/07, Donald Snook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My brother has a 1973 Cadillac Sedan Deville. It has

Re: [MBZ] fuel mileage was Re: Now, a liar on craigslist...

2007-05-23 Thread Mike Canfield
Had a 75 GMC pickup with the same setup.8MPG pulling the loaded trailer or running empty. Mike - Original Message - From: Gary Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] fuel mileage

[MBZ] fuel mileage was Re: Now, a liar on craigslist...

2007-05-22 Thread Donald Snook
Curt wrote: The best I got with my '83 240D was 28mpg. I think it was happiest between 60 and 65mph which seems to be about the same as my 190D. The best I ever got in my (now OK Don's) 1990 300D 2.5 was 34 mpg. That was exclusively highway miles. Most of the time it was more like

Re: [MBZ] fuel mileage was Re: Now, a liar on craigslist...

2007-05-22 Thread Zoltan Finks
Interesting: I was thinking about sharing with y'all the mileage I have recently gotten in my '83 240D: 32.6 mpg. - on a mix of maybe 60 - 75% highway and the rest pretty much city. Needless to say, I'm tickled. And the engine is pretty peppy. Guess I got a good used engine from TriStar Auto, or