7 passengers at 29.4 mpg
We just did a 200 mile trip and got 29.4 mpg indicated (which is usually really close). Ok it was downhill 1000 ft but the return 200 miles was 28.0 for an overall of 28.7 MPG both ways. I will fill it up tomorrow but we just went 400 miles on a bit less then 3/4 of a tank! And OK, we didn't have 7 passengers, just 5 and a dog, and a bunch of crap including my grandpa's old smoker and an office chair, our luggage, bows and arrows, gold panning, huckleberry picking, and snorkeling gear.
Kept it 60-65, no drafting or being drafted, pretty smooth roads but some heavy rain for 1/2 hr each way that couldn't have helped much with all the standing water on the road. Missoula, MT to Libby, MT and back. This was our 2011 Chrysler Town and Country with LLR tires at 40 PSI as the only mods. Will double check on the fill-up tomorrow and let you know if I have been lied to too bad. PS i just figured 7 passengers at 28.7 is as good as an 1st gen Insight with 2 getting 100 mpg. Technically you would need 4 Insights getting 119.4 mpg each to move 7 people 400 miles using the same gas, but technically we didn't have 7... |
I once got 3.2 l/100 km indicated (73.5 mpg) for the 90 km trip seeing my wife off to the airport, 4 aboard.
If you want to better your per passenger FE, take a four banger Insight :) |
The current 1.6DCi Renault traffic is available as a 8 seater and is rated 45MPG US.
Still a 60 passenger bus probably does better. |
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That's pretty good for a Chrysler minivan--at my old job, we had a 2010 Caravan as a shop vehicle, and it was easy to get poor mileage out of if driven like a normal person.
Also, fresh huckleberries--I'm jealous. My sister lives in Coeur d'Alene, and I make sure to go huckleberry picking whenever I visit in the summer, but it's been a few years since I've been out that way. |
Well, not quite as good. By the time I drove down to the gas station it was reading 28.4 average, then it took 14.331 gal and the total mileage was 404.1 for a 28.2 mpg actual. The total city was about 25 miles of the 404.1 as we live on the opposite side of town as the highway. A little over $40 for the whole family to go visit my parents is definitely a record. Last time we ended up in 2 cars but we had 3 big dogs and we hadn't bought the van yet.
Our total on fuelly is 19.8 mpg (EPA is 20 mpg combined) over the 3741 miles we have owned the van but that is 66% city and 34% highway and my wife is the primary driver and she drives easy but not with any type of hypermile tricks. |
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