Miata Mailing List: April 1997, Message #32
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From: 	"Koping Hu" <kopingh@ilx.com>

Subject: Re: Fuel "Economy"

Date: 	Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:37:30 -0500



Must be the extra weight the M-editions and the PEPs carry around??? :)

Let me take off the hardtop, lose the spare tire (car, not mine), that 

extra bottle of oil, the cd changer... :)

I thought about the handbrake, definitely not dragging.

(and I don't weigh 200 lbs either)



I have a suspicion that the mileage improved just a bit after the most 

recent oil change to Redline 10W30, but I've only used a tankful since the 

change.  Time will tell.



Ko

96M

"I couldn't get over 23mpg if I tried"

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From: Dan Scolnick <dans@dmscomp.com>

Subject: Re: Fuel Economy

Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 21:40:57 -0500



 21.5mpg seems so unbelievably low.  The type of driving I do shouldn't

yield high mpg and I couldn't get 21.5 if I tried.



 are your brakes dragging?, is there some kind of leak or something?

/^\dans



At 08:08 PM 3/31/97 -0600, Broussard@smtp.outer.net, Bill wrote:

>My '97 seems to be getting a pretty uniform 21.5MPG for mostly in-town