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Originally Posted by Nolimite39
I live in Houston $90 for a tank is A LOT, especially when you're doing it twice a week. TO contrast, my wife spends $90 per fill up for her F15x35d once every 2 to 3 weeks and her commute is double mine. So anyone want a gas hog to add to their stable? I'll give you an XO deal.
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I used to commute 120+ miles every day to my job clear across the DFW metroplex, for over 23 years. Previously, it was only between 45 miles (5 years) and 75 miles (4 years while in college, and 10 while living at other addresses), to two different plants over the years. There were only 5 years where my commute was <15 miles a day.
My vehicles included my worst gas hogs:
- 1) '67 Dodge Monaco 500, 383ci/325hp/323 gears,
- 2) '66 Chevelle 327ci/350hp/3.36 gears, then with 427ci/500hp/3.73 gears, occasionally,
- 3) '69 Chevy 1500, hotrodded with a 350ci/370hp/3.73 gears,
but mixed in were several four-cylinder cars and a small V-6 pickup.
I drove a V-6 '86 S-10 for at least 14 of those years as my DD, and it got 18 mpg. My last DD pickup was my '04 Chevy 2500HD WT 6.0L/300hp/4.10 gears, which (still) gets between 11-14 mpg; at the lower range in traffic, of course.
When fuel rose in 2008-2009 to $4 around here, I bought a '09 HHR Panel 2.2L/155hp/3.91 gear, for increased mileage at lower cost. Even with my lead foot, it averaged 27 mpg. That beat or matched my other, past cars ('73 Volvo & three VW's) that had shown good economy.
So, there've been times where I was spending up to $200 in a week for my commute, and $100+ seems to have been normal for me in the past two decades, but I never had an X5 to drive before. The cost of premium fuel would add to the cost by a bunch, though the first three cars listed used premium (or even race fuel mix), but even now, short-hopping my X5 (with recurring lean codes), I'm getting 15.1 mpg overall. That'd be within the range I was accustomed to. I would never buy a car just for mileage...I have to at least like to drive what I've got; this X5 is a pleasure to drive, so it would've worked for me.