Mom's 1999 Plymouth Voyager results

[ankit]

I haven't calculated the MPG yet because we haven't filled up again yet but, I have a feeling we will get somwhere near 21 MPG. The whole road here is hills and 65 mph speed limit where the traffic goes 80 mph. So I had to keep up going at least 67-72 most of the way. Then we entered the city area where NOBODY uses a turn signal for changing lanes. It pisses me off because the pop right in front of you and then you have to brake right to avoid hitting them.

I hate Jersey drivers, on offence to those who live here. You probably know what I'm talking about. I should have the MPG for this trip up by Wednesday night.

[charliel]

I have a 2007 Town and Country LX(3.3L). I'm averaging 24.2 in mixed use over the last 4 months. I always use 87 octane. Tires are 44psi(max), no rrof rack, and I feather the pedal like there's an egg between my foot and the pedal.

I commonly get 26.4-27.4mpg on highway trips(I10 FL-AL-MS). On Easter Sunday I took a trip to have Easter dinner with the parents, wife and two kids were in the van. I had to take a state road with a speed limit of 55. Knowing this I reset the OEM trip computer as I left my house, drove 62 miles. When I returned home that afternoon the trip computer said I got 30.3mpg. I really babied the pedal but I did get 30mpg.

[diesel_john]

i took my 98 caravan down to Roanoke and Bristol a couple weeks ago, over 900 miles got 27.9 mpg by the pump numbers. 3.0L minus the roof rack.

[Doofus McFancypants]

Great goal - tough van to work with though - Father in law had a few - he never tracked the mileage though - he probably hypermiled it without trying.

( btw - i see your Alti is beating my alti in 90 day average - I will have to work on that.)
: )

[HotRod]

So, it's really true...we are all closet case mini-van owners! Shamefull!
The best mpg that I got in my wifes 2000 Grand Voyager was 26 mpg avg. (on a 300 miles trip. That's with snow tires, roof rack on, four people in the van, and going around 65 on a 75 mph interstate. I would have gone sloooower, but I was already giving my wife a migrane with all the cars passing us. Yep, roof rack definitly needs to come off. However, to give you some hope. I was able to get 31.5 on our way home from church last week, (22 mile trip) I accomplished that with 45-50mph avg speed, and p&g. Yes, its an automatic, but you can still p&g 'ok' with it. Post your results along with your style, speed, ect.

[ankit]

We had a surprise passenger on the way back home, a nice new dining table they found on sale and just had to bring along the ride. Even with it, I drafted as much as possible (actually took the truck separation on the interstate so I could draft) but not too close of course and again got 26 mpg. Now I know the total trip MPG will be lower but I have yet to calculate it because she hasn't filled up yet, plans on doing it tomorrow though.

P.S.-I claimed 26 mpg because the full tank gave the same 402 miles after a full fill-up before the warning light came on as the last tank.

[ankit]

Originally Posted by Doofus McFancypants

( btw - i see your Alti is beating my alti in 90 day average - I will have to work on that.)
: )

You should be ahead of me, I have a bigger engine IIRC.

[Doofus McFancypants]

my last tank was +28 MPG - and on my way to another +28 MPG tank.
we will have start an "Altima thread" - although i think it is just the 2 of us for now.

[ankit]

I wish I had a 5-speed. Hopefully I can get up to 28-30mpg in the alti over summer.

[ankit]

I rechecked her numbers twice, and well her MPG went up somehow. I'm thinking that it is because of the constant highway and warmer weather and the removal of the roof rack (it was removed for the last -+20 miles on the last tank). Also these numbers are not 100% accurate since I'm working off of what the gallons were on different pumps at different gas stations. I think the main reason that the MPG went up is because I was driving (drafting as much as possible) and did the whole hypermiling thing.