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Old 09-18-2023, 11:12 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by wax87 View Post
Why does the the 1981 get 17.8 MPG and the 1984 get 16 mpg? I presume it is combined mileage, but if it is lighter and everything else it would get more MPG not less. Just wondering.
My guess is that, that 16-mpg 'IS' an average, while the 17.8 was for steady-state 55-mph cruise.
The magazine folks believed that the BMW diesel variant would see upper 20s, but that's speculative, and I have no later road test data which included the diesel, so it remains an unknown quantity.
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