Best Minivan for MPG

[PaleMelanesian]

Wow. I'm surprised your mileage was that low. Our 04, with my wife driving, returns 21-22 mpg in local driving, and 26-27 on the highway.

You must mean VERY short trips, right?

[101Volts]

I've been getting about 25 in my Dad's 2000 Dodge Caravan, Even with the air pressure being 40ish when cold. This isn't with a lot of town stop and go driving, We mostly keep going.

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[Snowman9000]

This is not great data, but it's an anecdote at least. We had a 98 Old Silhouette with 3.4? liter v6. Not the dustbuster design, but the later one. On a one-day 600 mile vacation trip, fully loaded with family and krap, I got an honest hand calculated 30 MPG. Don't recall the wind conditions. I don't recall what the return leg was either. Normally it was a soccer mom car, and I have no recollection of what my wife got with it. But with me driving on that trip, I was pleasantly shocked at the MPG.

The Odyssey transmissions were a problem during a certain era, IIRC early 2000s.