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Originally Posted by rmay635703
Look at a motor home called A Vixen, it's not boat tailed and gets 30mpg
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I have looked at those. I like most everything about them. They are clearly designed by a hypermiler and could use a few modern tweaks but are amazing vehicles. I am not, however, shopping for something that looks like a vehicle. I want a platform to build my own design and that limits my options to framed trucks with beds over 10 feet long. Mostly this means vans built by the big 3 who put in overpowered engines like the 7.3
As a hypermiler I much prefer the small BMW Diesel in the Vixen over the monster 7.3 that is the only thing Ford used that was worth getting. I am starting to seriously lean toward a Mitsubishi Fuso and studying what mileage it can be tweaked to get. It is very difficult to find info on them because drivers have so many different boxes and loads. Their aerodynamics are pathetic and the frame is built high and heavy, but the engine is excellent. The choices all kinda suck.