[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by David Jones

My daily driver is a 157" WB 2012 F150 super crew with a fuel injected 5.0 V8 with 365hp and an auto trans. I also routinely get 20-22mpg and the current average for 36000 miles is 19.

We've come a looooong way..........

Originally Posted by hurryinhoosier62

Same here Keith. My '03 gets 21-24mpg (depending on speed). Same powertrain: 4.3 fuel injected V-6 and 5-speed manual transmission.

Sidebar: Speaking of which....

I was just reading in the society of automotive engineers (SAE) member magazine about the most recent Supermileage competition held at the Eaton Proving Ground in Marshall Michigan.

They showed that the winning team, Quebec's Universite' Laval, won the event with an average of 1145 mpg.

If I remember correctly, back when I was doing this with GMI (in the early 1980's) the University of Saskatchewan dominated the event year after year with fuel enonomy numbers just over the 1000 mpg range.

So - thirty years later and the identical fuel economy numbers?

Perhaps there is only so much energy you can squeeze from a gallon of gas...

:shrug:

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