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Old 04-28-2009, 04:00 PM   #12 (permalink)
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WonderWagon - '94 Ford Escort LX
Last 3: 51.52 mpg (US)

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90 day: 48.97 mpg (US)

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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
What I find rather strange, and quite annoying, is that none of the news articles about this ever bother to tell the readers how big that single tank is. Seems to me that's a pretty important piece of data: if it's 50 gallons or so, then that 1000 miles isn't much of a trick at all :-)
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Originally Posted by MetroMPG View Post
  • Finished at 1,445.7 miles after 69 hours, for a total of 81.5 mpg (US) / 2.9 L/100 km, according to Jalopnik (avg. speed of 20.95 mph / 34 km/h - my calc)
1445.7 miles / 81.5 mpg = 17.7 gallon tank

Advertised capacity for each of the 2010 front wheel drive trim variations is 17.5 gallons.
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