Yep. Even at 11,000 feet, uphill, the thing can can stand up and RUN.
Very happy with it. One hell of an engine.
I have a 40 gallon tank.
At 3.06 a gallon, I have to sell one of the kids to fund a fill up.
The highlight of it is the little fact that because we are the Rent-All and Deliver It To You for all our friends ( tools, tractor, tractor attachments, big stuff) we blow more gas to help them out. They never have anything we need, however.n (Ok, cept the guy who is a Major Computer Dorkorama. He has helped us out many a times.) The rest are all vampires.
Huh.
Kinda like getting reemed up the tailpipe twice.
I’ve been getting about 36 mpg in my Scion xA. My coworkers are all envious that I only fill up once every three weeks.
My mom bought her second SUV, a Ford Explorer, after being hit by a speeding firetruck last year while driving her GMC Envoy. The Envoy was totaled. My mom and sister were pretty banged up, but they survived. After the accident she was terrified to drive anything other than an SUV.
Now she’s regretting her decision to get the Explorer. Unfortunately she’ll take too much of a financial hit if she sells it or trades it in for something smaller. 
I only get about 25 mpg in my Accord, but my gasoline bragging rights stem from the <2000 miles I’ve put on my car in the past 9 months. It’s a short bus ride to work (a short ride, that is, not a ride on the short bus – really), and I just don’t drive that much on the weekends. My job is likely to move across the city at the end of the year, and I expect I’ll move with it. I really like these notions of a short commute and mass transit. The next office (assuming they keep me on) is going to be in the burbs, so maybe I’ll get a bicycle and go one better than I am now.
Some friends of mine are looking at getting a Ford Escape hybrid SUV with four-wheel drive. Anyone know how those are on gas? They’d get a Prius or Civic hybrid, but they live out in the bush and need more door height and ground clearance.
I drive about 1200 miles/month on about $5 worth of gasoline.
You may prostrate yourselves in wonder before me. 
Oh, fine … Mr. Stuff is the one who deserves the credit for figuring it all out.
We live on a farm, and there’s an oil well on it (don’t think Texas gusher, think a couple hundred bucks a month income). One of the perks is that we get free natural gas off the well, up to 300,000 units/year. We can heat our house on a tiny tiny portion of that. So we both drive dual-fuel vehicles that can run on natural gas (CNG) or gasoline. There is a pump in the garage that we hook into when we’re low, and it fills in a few hours (if we set up a cascading tank system, we could fill up in 10 minutes, but it doesn’t seem worth the expense).
My '01 Cavalier always runs on CNG unless it’s out, when it reverts to gasoline. You’re supposed to run it on gasoline for awhile every month so the engine doesn’t freak out, so I do that. That little bit, plus me being occasionally ditzy and forgetting to fill up, usually amounts to a gallon and a half a month or so. I can run 150 (city) to 170 (highway) miles on the tank of CNG, so I almost never actually need the gasoline. We did drive 1000 miles on a vacation recently, and we averaged about 34 miles/gallon on the highway using gasoline. It’s nice to know that if the natural gas dries up, we’ll still have a fuel-efficient car.
The only drawback we’ve discovered so far is that we were having a conversation with a bunch of friends from different areas, and one of them said, “So, how much is gas up your way, anyway?” Neither of us knew, and several people looked at us like we were intensely stupid. As downsides go, I think I can handle it!
I love my cheap little car.
Mr. Legend and I bought one last October because we needed exactly that (his elderly parents live at the end of about nine miles of pretty bad unpaved road). We’re getting between 28 and 31 mpg in combined driving (around 27 on the freeway and 33 if we drive carefully in town). The mileage is better now that it’s summer than it was in the winter, since it doesn’t seem to like cold weather or oxygenated fuel. Mr. Legend took it up an unimproved canyon road after a rainstorm a couple of weeks ago, and it handled the drive as well as our old Jeep Cherokee would have (in high 4WD, that is - I doubt it would compare with the Jeep’s 4WD Low). All in all, the gas mileage isn’t likely to make up for the increased purchase price in the foreseeable future, but it does make us feel better about driving an SUV in these uncertain times.
Resurrecting since I’m happy to join high milage people again. I drive a LOT right now (say, 200-250 miles each day during the work week), so to save money, I bought a new 06 Civic Hybrid to replace my 2001 Nissan Sentra (which was a great car, BTW). Since I drive about a 50/50 mix of city and highway during the day, the 27mpg combined (got a steady 31 or so on the highway) of my Sentra was ringing up huge bills.
New Civic Hybrid: Averaging 46 mpg combined city / highway. Highway alone, I’m getting around 49. Not bad. Saves me about $200 a month. Very nice. Plus, I really like the 06 Civic styiling and interior (they’re the same on all models).
Oh yeah, 12.5 gallon tank, light comes on at 10 or so gallons, at usually around 460 miles (imagine that!). Filled up today for $28 at 482 miles (10.5 gallons)
Took the Big Ford to the pumps today. Used about 2 gallons to get there and back. Only gets about 8-10mph on a good day. Put 33 gallons in.
Didn’t cost me a thing. Company paid for it. 
Got a 73 caddy hardtop convertible in mint condition. It costs $50 to fill it up and it only gets about 14 mpg BUT it’s paid for (ie:no car payment) and the liability costs me less than $20/month. hah!
Did a milage check on my Honda GB500. I’m getting 61 mpg!
Blew my mind, too!
I’m getting rid of it soon, but I filled up before and at the end of about 4 hours of driving, going from sea level to over 4000 ft and back down, and I figure I got about 44mpg. It’s a 95 Toyota Tercel, which I bet Toyota was selling just to lower its overall mpg average across the line.
I also have a 99 Corolla. The last time I got gas, I zeroed the trip counter and waited until my tank was running on empty (the light has been on for a couple of days). I filled up the tank with 11.07 gallons. My trip counter said 245 miles.
That’s only 22 mpg if I’m doing this miles per gallon calculation the right way. I drive mostly in stop-and-go traffic, with occasional highway driving for 20 minutes or more.
So what’s with the difference? My car is fine maintenance-wise, the tires are fully inflated, I drive slightly fast, but I’m not a speed demon…what am I doing wrong?
I am paying zero for transportation. I am an adjunct faculty, and as such I can ride the bus for free. My truck, a diesel which gets fairly decent mileage cost me a couple of hundred bucks a month, so I’m getting to spend all that former fuel money on fun stuff, OR paying off principle on my mortgage.
I wouldn’t mind something that got better mileage but I can’t afford a car payment and the rates on collision insurance. I don’t drive very much anyway. A tank of gas probably lasts me a month. It just doesn’t make sense. I think I’ll have to rebuild the old softtail.
Typically my '02 Ford Escort is in the 25-28 mpg range. On long highway trips I see an increas to 33-35. On my last long trip though, I bought a tank of “Plus” (whatever the mid-grade is called) at my local Mobil. Over 40 mpg!
Locally regular has just dipped below $3.00 for regular (but not by much)