roadhunter
Elite Member
YEs. Cool little trucks. We had one when I was growing up in Wyoming. It would only go 45 up the pass between Laramie and Cheyenne but it got around 45 mpg. They still bring a pretty good $ if you can find a nice one.
Diesel truck with best MPG
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YEs. Cool little trucks. We had one when I was growing up in Wyoming. It would only go 45 up the pass between Laramie and Cheyenne but it got around 45 mpg. They still bring a pretty good $ if you can find a nice one.
sacmarata
Bronze Member
Owned a VW Rabbit in diesel. thing couldn't get out of it's own way but 52mpg was hard to beat!
I've been looking for one of the old diesel rabbit trucks for a while now and just hope I have the cash in hand when i find it.
Heywood Jannockitov
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They can get out of their own way now. People rarely discuss one of the main advantages to diesel and that is better driving dynamics, for example, mid-range torque. My Passat TDI pulls like a V8 where it is best needed like merging onto a freeway or holding speed on a long grade, doing so seemingly effortlessly. The engine doesn't have to downshift one or two gears and rev the snot out of itself to accelerate, like a gas engine. I don't, however need to light up the tires from a standstill, which seems important to some people.
I have an 01 Ram 2500, 5.9l HO Cummins diesel with a Quadzilla Adrenaline programmer, 4.10 gears, 6-spd NV5600 manual trans, 35" BFG T/A KO tires. I recently went on a 915 mile round trip to pick up my tractor. Towed an empty 2k# trailer down, and coming back with my JD4600 (~6300#) on the trailer.
If my math serves me correctly, my increase in tire size nets me a 13% difference in numbers of rotations per mile. I use that for the difference in mileage of my stock speedo. My trip meter read 810 miles from when I left and when I came home. 810 * 1.13 = 915.3 total miles. I burned roughly 50-55 gallons of fuel (fuel sending units aren't exactly accurate to tank size).
At 915.3 miles, burning 50 gallons of fuel, I averaged 18.3 mpg. At 55 gallons of fuel burnt, I averaged 16.6 mpg.
Unloaded, the best I've ever ran was 22.4 mpg. I don't have a dash mpg indicator, this is all done with pencil at the pump between fill-ups.
If my math serves me correctly, my increase in tire size nets me a 13% difference in numbers of rotations per mile. I use that for the difference in mileage of my stock speedo. My trip meter read 810 miles from when I left and when I came home. 810 * 1.13 = 915.3 total miles. I burned roughly 50-55 gallons of fuel (fuel sending units aren't exactly accurate to tank size).
At 915.3 miles, burning 50 gallons of fuel, I averaged 18.3 mpg. At 55 gallons of fuel burnt, I averaged 16.6 mpg.
Unloaded, the best I've ever ran was 22.4 mpg. I don't have a dash mpg indicator, this is all done with pencil at the pump between fill-ups.
sacmarata
Bronze Member
If it runs fine I would strongly consider it even at that price. I recently sold my boat, a Bonneville and a Ranger 4.0....so this means I have room for a rabbit truck? Hmmmm
HHR
Platinum Member
I would have a hard time paying half that for one of those.
dodge man
Super Star Member
Nice ad, work on your spelling though.
niemeyjt
Silver Member
Over in UK the experts are now telling us that diesels pollute and we should drive petrol (gas) - having previously said diesel was better for environment as it produces less CO2 per mile driven.
Don't you just love 'em?
J
Don't you just love 'em?
J
buickanddeere
Super Member
Why is a gas engine briefly reving up into it's power band a bad thing?