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I get high teens when its cold in town, low 20's in the Summer. Highway was 26 or 27 but I was running just a bit rich with those numbers. It if hasnt been driven for a while Id get it through a tank or 2 before I worried, your not too far off anyway. Keith Keith Park Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback "El BajaRojo" 65 Squareback "Eggcrate" 87 Golf 88 Rx7 10th Anniversary "Rextur" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toby Erkson" <air_cooled_nut@pobox.com> To: "Type 3 Mailing List" <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:19 PM Subject: [T3] Automatic gas mileage? > I just did my first mileage computation for my Lightsider and it's > 18.8mpg. The driving was mostly city but some high-way thrown in -- > small stretches getting to The DDB, like a couple miles to and fro. > > Is this okay? What should I expect for pure city mileage? Highway? > I'm looking for real world numbers, not the ones I can find in my > Bentley ;-) > > -- > Toby Erkson -- air_cooled_nut@pobox.com > '72 VW Squareback Darksider, 5-speed, 2.0L, rag top > '72 VW Squareback Lightsider, automatic, FI, sunroof, gas heater > '95 VW Jetta ~ SCCA Solo II; '73 Porsche 914; '81 Honda Gold Wing > http://www.icbm.org/ > Portland, Oregon > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >