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914World.com _ 914World Garage _ Short Drive

Posted by: pbanders Feb 27 2010, 11:01 AM

Unfortunately, most of my 914 driving is on boring roads, but this morning, I had the chance to take a short drive on some more rural roads near the southern part of Phoenix. I drove down Casa Grande, over to Coolidge, then back up to Chandler and home on various back roads. Most of this was cruising at 65-75 mph on generally flat terrain, roof out. Including about 50 miles of city driving on the tank of fuel before I took this drive, I got 28.5 mpg. I'm pretty sure if I did a stead 75 mph round trip from here to Tucson (~200 miles), I would get about 32 mpg. For a 16.4 gal tank, that's 525 miles of cruising range, not bad for a 40-year-old car.

Posted by: Tom Feb 27 2010, 11:56 AM

Another month or so for me. Too cold for my old bones. Gotta get that heat hooked up! Thanks for sharing.
Tom

Posted by: 914Sixer Feb 28 2010, 07:54 AM

These little cars were sold as sports cars but all the information played up the fuel economy of that they got. All the dealer brochures that I just looked at showed between 26-29 mpg depending on the engine. Who said you can't have fun and be GREEN at the same time?