20% doesn’t seem out of order, really.
I believe that a/c drag increases more slowly than engine output as you go from smaller to larger vehicles, so smaller vehicles tend to take more of a hit than larger ones. My Echo and Civic both take pretty big hits, similar to yours, where my wife’s Town + Country, at roughly 2.5x the displacement, interior volume, and engine output, barely even registers a drain, probably on the order of under 10% (I don’t drive it enough to really know). Granted, it’s nearly two decades newer, so that probably helps vs my Japanese beaters.
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'97 Honda Civic DX Coupe 5MT - dead 2/23
'00 Echo - dead 2/17
'14 Chrysler Town + Country - My DD, for now
'67 Mustang Convertible - gone 1/17
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