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Awesome Suzuki Carry Truck!
What really torques my lug nuts is the Honda Civic VX. 50 mpg and +90 HP. And between the EPA outlawing Lean Burn and all the kids out there ruining all the Hondas, it is such a sad state of affairs.
If I could find a VX, that thought of the Escort Wagon would go up in smoke in an instant. It would be "bring on that Harbor Freight folding trailer!"
I also thought about a Roadmaster with the LT1... or Taurus SW.
I am not that well read in big mpg combos out there, but it seems like from what is in this thread is that the little trucks do well. If that is the case, why are the mini-vans so terrible? I speak from the experience of my close friend that owns 2 taxi companies and has some that are "so new they have 17" wheels(!)" He said they all had terrible, sub 20, mpg.
One note on the taxi business, there were some 3.8 (not 3800) GM's that got in the upper 20's mpg in taxi service. They were rare and you could have 2 identical cars, one would get 28 mpg and the other one 15. No one could ever figure out why some got so high mpg. I found on the internet, that some of the 3800's (I don't know if this applied to the older 3.8's) had lean burn 17:1 tables already in the computer and all you had to do was set a parameter or two to access them. People claim over 30 mpg is no problem. Others have tricked over 40 mpg. A high mpg 3800 SW would be an excellent solution too - might even be big enough to lay that plywood down?
I have a friend (lives in Carson City, NV - altitude > 5000ft.) who has a (1998 I think) 6-cyl Camaro that regularly gets 36-39. He can't explain it either.
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The plywood "base" for the roof rack sounds like a good idea too.
Thanks for all the suggestions,
Tom
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