Re: [DML] 30+ mpg in a DeLorean

[Rod Dillman <rhdillman@xxxxxxxxx>]

There was  a distance traveled/gasoline used poll following the 2002 Memphis Car Show. Ken posted the mileage for those responding to the poll. I don't know if the results are still posted or not. As I recall I got better than 25 miles per gallon from Roanoke, VA to Memphis, TN and return. Most was Interstate driving and 5 miles over the  posted speed limit. I was pleasantly surprised by my mileage considering  how much luggage we stuffed into the car.

content22207 <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:55 MPH is the optimum average speed for fuel economy from 1970's
technology, which is the best our little silver cars can represent.
That's how it ended up our national standard after the first Oil Crisis.

Today's highway speeds are certainly on the downhill side of MPG.
You've simply run out of gears.

Yes, low wind drag helps, but let's talk about the rolling resistance
of low inflation 235 series tires!

Window sticker CAFE for the DeLorean was 19 MPG. Is no way to get that
with 30 on the highway unless it was in the low 10's around town!
(Point of comparison -- my 5,000 lbs Lincolns with 460 inch plants
(7.5 liters) are well over 10 MPG city).

Didn't someone do a List poll Re: fuel economy within the past year or
two? My European spec PRV is 21 MPG @ 80 MPH (2800 RPM), rising to 23
MPG @ 60 MPH (2400 RPM).

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dick Ryan wrote:
> My father was a traveling salesman. He said that when
> he spent the nights in the hotels in the little towns
> he traveled through, invariably the talk came around
> to gas mileage. He said " The first liar never had a
> chance.".
> 
> With that in mind......
> 
> I've put nearly 175,000 miles on two DeLoreans. One
> automatic and one 5 speed. Almost 50,000 miles were
> sans turbo, the rest were with a twin turbo. Most of
> the miles were long distance highway miles. On the
> highway I usually drive the speed limit "plus" (+5 or
> +10 mph). My cars have NEVER acheived 30+ mpg. 
> 
> The DeLorean Toruing Society has 6 charter members who
> do a 2-4,000 mile trip each year in a period of two
> weeks. That obviously means a lot of highway driving.
> We have a stock engined D, 2 twin turbo'd Ds, a
> single turbo'd D and a Stage II engine. To my
> knowledge, none of us has ever gotten 30+ mpg. 
> 
> This is not to say that we are dissatisfied with our
> mileage. We seem to run from 24+ to 28 mpg and I
> think that is just fine. I have no complaints with
> 300 miles per tankful.
> 
> Dick Ryan
> VIN 16867
> 
> --- James Espey wrote:
> > A few years ago, I drove our former company car
> > five-speed from Houston to
> > Scottsdale, Arizona. This car had the Stage II
> > engine and I was surprised on
> > at least two tankfuls to get over 30mpg. A woman
> > client of ours just drove
> > in from Oregon for a week while we installed the
> > Stage II engine in her car,
> > and she reported similar results on her way BACK to
> > Oregon. I don't think
> > 30+ mpg on the highway is anything to complain
> > about...the Rover I drive
> > regularly and the XJS I hope to be driving soon are
> > both sub-15mpg.
> > 
> > 30mpg and a 13.2 gallon tank make for a nearly 400
> > mile range...
> > 
> > James
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