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YEs ^^^

Funny story, back in the 70's my old man had a XW falcon ute with a 302 in it (bought it brand new in 1969)

all his mates went and bought datsun utes etc due to rising fuel costs, they were stoked at getting 16mpg...my old man laughed because his 4.9L V8 was getting 22mpg around town lugging a shit load of tools around the place

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Its just that the the lowest I can get my auto down is 10.5L/100km & that is making a 430km trip doing about 110 - 120km/h (mostly) the whole way. & then I read people claiming that they get ~8L/100km doing mostly freeways (I assume it would be manual).

In the city mixed driving I can never get it below 12L/100km (always hover around 13.5L/100km)...

& now with mainly bumper to bumper traffic it shoots up to 16.5L/100km.

Car has the usual bolt ons (exhuast, intake, bleed valve to 10PSI) & a basic tune with SAFC 2.

Edited by Mayuri Krab

I got a app on my phone where I enter details when I fill up like how much/mileage etc so it calcutes all sorts of averages by its self which is neat.

Anyway after about a year of owning a RB25DE R32 it says I get 11.19L/100k.

But dang I find the engine quite hungy once I drive a bit more heavy footed, especially when in a rush.

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