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28mpg from my v6

3.3K views 23 replies 19 participants last post by  Edmo83  
#1 ·
i thought that was pretty good. all my mileage is usualy in the city, so i never gets passed 18mpg. this fri. and sat. i drove up to fresno from LA, we drove about 550 miles and used a little more than 20 gallons of gas (i have the specific numbers in the car, but im too tired to go to it). so i thought 28 mpg from my 92 v6 xle was pretty good. is this wat most people with v6's get from there car?
 
#9 ·
Best I ever got was 31mpg on my '96 1MZ averageing 75mph for a 960 mile trip. 60 of those miles were hardcore city driving too, lol. I'm going to see what I can do to raise HP and get better gas mileage on it. I want 220HP and 37mpg. :)
 
#11 ·
95 V6LE w/3.71:1 axel 23mpg

Sweet!
Best to date since off the winter fuel is 23mpg with a heavy foot.
Average freeway speed in: 75mph (6AM), home 35mph doing bout 50m per day getting 23mpg on 95 V6 with 3.71:1 axel and P225 50R17's. Car has bout 160,000 miles and is in great shape, compression wise - cylinder variance less than 3% per cylinder, doesn't burn and doesn't leak.

It should do better!

28 Would be sweet....
/ra
 
#13 ·
Super Kaioken said:
I've been getting better gas mileage now that gas prices are up. Try to keep it under 2K while cruising around city. Helped me alot.
i know exactly what you mean. when prices are down, i would accelerate a little fast, but now that the prices are to the roof, i've been watchin my foot, ALOT. i try to keep the rpm as low as i can and lifting my foot just enough so that the A/T will upshift. i guess these high gas prices are good for something, afterall. They keep you safe by forcing you to drive like your grandma.
 
#14 ·
Congrats man on the gas mileage.

I just did a 1500 mile road trip (missouri to idaho) and the best I could do was 27 mpg with my car completey loaded w/ a bike on top. The worst that I got was 18 mpg going against the wind on the colorado/kansas border:sosad: . By the way mine's only a 4 cylidnder so again congrats on the mileage.
Best to date 41 mpg.
 
#18 ·
This is something that I have yet to understand. I get about 26-28mpg in town driving with my '02SE four banger, but when I had my '96 LE 6cyl. I got about the same results! What's up with that? My next Camry will definately have a 6 cyl. in it! I *LOVED* my 96: was the best and funnest car I drove with what I considered great gas mileage for a 6 cyl. car.
 
#21 ·
word i tested my camry out to i put the stock motor in since the old v6 is chillin on a motor lift right now having compression issues but i know wats wrong so w.e but the stock v6 motor on premium gas i did 315 on a full tank but i topped it off which made it 15gallons i believe i was like wow this shit aint bad and the stock motor got like 210k on it so figure that shit still runs hard