[quote=“MikeRi24,post:96,topic:38342"”]
If you really really want to get technical about it, lets look at it this way:
the Explorer has a 22.5 gallon gas tank.
Before i left on Thursday to go get my tires, i re-set the trip odometer. I stopped at the gas station <1 mile from my house to get gas. I left that gas station with the needle a little over 3/4 of a tank, but what the hell we’ll say its 3/4 even, which would be ~17 gallons.
Since filling up, i went to Jim Deans in Elma, back to my house, then out to East Amherst, then to Lyndonville, beat on the truck off-roading for a while, then went through Olcott and Wilson to get to Bond Lake State Park up in Niagara County, back to East Amherst, then to my house, then about ~25 miles random driving friday (work, school, going to the Cheesecake Factory, etc), work and back this morning, then to Orchard Park after work, back home, then to my girlfriends house in Lockport and back.
The gas gauge is just a little above the E so Im going to have to fill up tomorrow, but my trip odometer reads 334.1 miles (yes i just walked outside and looked). SO, after doing the math I get 19.64 mpg. granted thats mostly all highway driving, but proves my point.
oh and to quote from the SAME EPA website…
EDIT: same website also says that a 98 Trans Am 6 speed gets 26mpg on the highway…i thought ive read several people on here claiming to get 30+ on the highway? i think ive proved my point…
EDIT #2: lol at that site saying in stock form my Mustang should get 23mpg highway…even with the highway gears when it was stock i dont think it got even half that hahaha
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Before I say anything else you’ve never had more than 1/4 of a tank in your car when I’ve been in it so that voids your entire argument. You said it yourself that all that driving was mostly highway. The 15mpg that the site says is a 50/50 between highway and city driving. Anyone with half a brain knows that if you do more highway driving your total mpg will go up. However your local commute from home to UB and work does not count as primarily highway. With your new mud tires you will undoubtedly be getting far less than the alleged 19.64 mpg.
The reason I posted that is because you’ve lied about your mpg before:
[quote=“MikeRi24,post:96,topic:38342"”]
it has the big 8.1 with the Allison transmission in it. again, i have no use for this, but the thing gets between 11 and 14 mpg in the city and on the highway with the cruise set at 70, it gets a consistent ~24 mpg. I shit you not. and its better than what i was getting in the GTO (also doesnt need 93 gas)
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http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29393&highlight=mike+smith+gmc&page=2
Putting aside the fact that you bought that truck thinking it had the 6.0 rather than the 8.1, there is no way your truck got 24mpg hwy. You got 32mpg in neutral going 40 mph down a hill. You also tried to argue that you sold the GTO and bought a 2500HD to save on gas. You also said you got rid of the GTO because you got too much attention and now you drive a Mustang with cherrybombs. You drove a sports car in the winter and a huge truck in the summer. I’m sure that no one on nyspeed will disagree when I say that you are a compulsive liar. You are the boy who cried wolf. You have lost all credibility on this forum. Don’t bother reposting because no one is listening.
-Everyone