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I recently put nearly 2000 miles on a 85k mile Buick Regal, 3.8 liter automatic, driving from New Mexico to Los Angeles and back. Half of that was across barren Eastern California/Western Arizona and none of the driving was at night. With four adults and one kid on board and a trunk stuffed full of luggage, the car consistantly returned 31-32 mpg at ~80 mph with the a/c keeping us comfortable in the +100F/38C heat.
Turbos are nice, I own two 900 SET's, but they would have returned mpg's in the upper 20's in those conditions, and the a/c in the Saabs wouldn't have kept us comfortable.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Made in Germany... er... Hungary, Poland, Czech etc., Coolknight, Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:05:39
- Re: Made in Germany... er... Hungary, Poland, Czech etc., jblake , Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:35:23
- mileage, turbos and other nonesense, MJM , Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:07:27 <-- Viewing This Message
- Good points made here..., Noel, Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:30:22
- Don't get me wrong, I really love my '02 9-3 but..., JBack, Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:12:40
- Can't we all just get along?, puck, Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:12:07
- Re: Don't get me wrong, I really love my '02 9-3 but..., Noel, Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:14:55
- Saab = "performance value" not just "performance", Greg Abbott , Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:50:59
- where are SAAB parts made?, Harry, Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:13:18
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