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15-07-09, 09:18
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What is your everyday car ?
Mine is a 1987 Falcon XF wagon ..it's fitted with a few Fairmont options ..floor shift and the fancy digital gauges . It runs the 4.1 litre crossflow head motor .... these are a old 1960's motor that Ford here kept ugrading .. the XF was the last model for it . The front suspension is straight from the 1964 XK Falcon ..they didnt change much. In Australia, these cars are a dime a dozen and you can pick up bargain low mileage examples for under $500 . Many of them are converted to LPG as the motors love it .
Mike
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15-07-09, 11:36
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Mercedes A-Class turbo diesel
My A-Class is just coming up to 100,000 miles, and returns 70mpg on a long open motorway run, 60mpg or better on the open road.
It's the same 4 cylinder 2 litre unit you get in all the A and B Class cars, they just set the engine management system to give different power outputs. I think mine is about 110HP What's wrong with it? poor ground clearance, especially over speed bumps, and the fact I didn't get a tow bar fitted when I bought it... 
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15-07-09, 14:22
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You mean you don't drive your CMP
2001 Ford Escapes, two of them wife has one and I have one. Mine has four cylinder with the five speed, wife has the V6 with automatic. The four cylinder gets year round average of 25-27 MPG, the darn thing is wife get just about the same mileage, bigger engine lighter foot.
Cheers Phil
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15-07-09, 15:37
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This is pickup country. Cars just won't hack it on our gravel roads, especially in muddy or snowy conditions. I've got a 1998 S10 with a 4.3 V6 and automatic. It gets close to 25 mpg.
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15-07-09, 18:52
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summer time / winter time
In the summer it is my M38 Willys and my F15A CMP. In the winter it is my 85 Dodge 5/4. Occasionally the wife lets me drive her Saturn but it is a bugger to squeeze into.
Cheers from Windsor Ontario, home of the Ford CMP Mike
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15-07-09, 20:27
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Wife drives a Mini Cooper S and I have a VW Jetta TDI.
Mini Cooper is suffering a Power Steering issue, so i'm driving the M151A2. Actually, at one point for about 3 hours last week, my M151A2 was the only vehicle in my Fleet that was running. Scotty
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16-07-09, 14:42
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Daily drivers
Here in the land of inexpensive (relatively, at 2.22/gal) petrol my daily driver is a 2005 Chevy Silverado pickup, 5.3 litre V8 which averages 17.2 mpg. When my wife and I go out on the town we take her 2008 Mazda CX7 which has a tiny turbo-charged 4 banger which puts out an amazing 244 hp! Her vehicle doesn't average much more than 22mpg. Interesting side note: her CX7 is built in Hiroshima, Japan. Anyone got a Geiger counter I can borrow? Derek.
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