I filled my tank in my truck yesterday after plowing; did the quick math and realized I’d gotten the worst gas mileage of my life:
2003 Chevy 2500 xcab 4x4: 6.5MPG
Wow.
The best ever was in my current daily use car, a 2006 Nissan Sentra: 42 MPG
What’s your best and worst, and what vehicle gave you those mind numbing numbers?
Worst: Chevy 1/2 ton - 10 or 12 MPG
Best: Kawasaki ZZR 1200 - 45 MPG
Honorable Mention: Charger Daytona - 17 to 23 MPG
Best: 1995 Ford Aspire, 50 MPG on a good day (over 200K miles and still running!)
Worst: 455 Olds (1966), 10-12 MPG (this was Mr. S’s car, before my time)
Worst: 1986 Chevy Blazer, at a whopping 4.6 MPG
Best: 2004 Honda Insight - average 58 - 62; best full tank average was 74 MPG.
Honorable mention: 1987 Toyota Camry, which got 25 - 28 the whole time I drove it (200K miles or so) and is still on the road (at 400K miles or so) and running at about the same efficiency.
Best: '90 Chevy Cavalier – 32 mpg, uphill, downhill and sideways, city or highway. That POS was almost, but not quite, a great car.
Worst: '72 GTO with a 455 & six-pack, racing – 6 mpg. So-called “Normal” city driving, it got a lot better, say 10-12 mpg. I loved that car.
Worst : '80 3/4 ton Chevy pickup, 6 mpg with a/c, 8 without. Only thing I didn’t like about it.
Best : '96 Triumph Tiger, 42 mpg. Wrecked it pretty good 2 weeks ago, might fix it if I can find used parts, the cost of new parts would be about twice it’s worth (and I get a discount).
Best: 75 Dodge Colt, about 32 miles per gallon.
Worst: 1988 Ford Thunderbird oval track stock car, about 2.5 miles per gallon. For a vehicle driven on the street, it was the rig I used to tow the race car, a 1987 Chevy C3500 one ton dually with a 455. It got about 7 mpg unloaded, 5 when pulling my 26 foot enclosed trailer. It held 80 gallons of gas and it was not unusual to use up that and more on a weekend.
Worst: 1965 Mustang, ~6 mpg
Best: Tomos moped. ~100 mpg
Worst: 1974 Cutlass S - ~10mpg
Best: Vespa Moped ~80mpg
Worst: 1974 Cougar - avg. 10 MPG
Best - 1979 Subaru FE - avg. 47 MPG
Oops, silly me, I forgot my motorcycle.
My 2003 Kawasaki 500r: 55 MPG
Best: Suzuki SV1000S - 46 MPG
Worst: Suzuki SV1000S - 32 MPG
46 MPG is when it ridden sensibly, take it over 110-120 mph or ride a bit aggressively and it drops fast.
Worst - 74 Plymouth Duster slant 6 - ~15mpg
Best - 2001 Smart - ~65mpg
Best: Either my 1985 Chevy Sprint or my '82 Honda CX500 - both could get about 50 MPG.
Worst: 1985 Pontiac Trans-Am. About 7 MPG after putting on dual quads on the 350.