Gas mileage

I'm curious to see what the average mileage is for my car. It's a 75 Maverick 4door 250I6. I filled it to the brim with regular, and drove it for a week and a half = 362miles (a lot of running around this time) and used 14.892 gallons of gas, getting me about 24mpg. What's the verdict on it? I'm driving highway at about 60-65mph and in town varies

 

I would average your mpg off of several samples over time. The good news is that your 24 mpg sounds a little high, more than I would expect. Let's see if it is repeatable.

 

Mine gets that (250 with C4 trans). I only use alcohol free 89 octane, though. I know alcohol gas will be worse, and worse for the entire fuel system too!

 

I've never bothered to check.

 

My 1976 4-door 250-6 C4 car only gets about 18.

 

My 74 2-door 250/C4 use to get about the same. I'm getting around 27 highway mpg since the t5 swap.

 

Me either, I fill it up and drive it till it needs gas again(then repeat)..... It gets what it gets.....

 

This.

Same thing with my Truck, damn thing is little under $100 to fill, and it would probably piss me off if I found out how much mileage I get. I fill it up every 3-4 days 700-800$ a month just for the truck, not including the wifes jeep.

 

This is why when a wheel bearing on my Bronco gave out on my way home from work I scrapped it. 12 mpg just wasn't cutting it. (to note it was also after 2 years of the truck breaking down every single Friday on the way home from work)

 

when we were driving curb hoppers car around we never checked the mileage but it did really good in my opinion for a 302 c4 combo

we could go out racing and terrorizing some donuts and then some more thrashing around and make it home and still have gas left over out of a $20 bill in gas (we never put more than that in at one time)

levi I hear ya on the trucks between my wife and I we spend atleast $800 a month on gas and she works like 15 miles from home and I dont usually go very far but my truck is drivin fairly hard and pulls a trailer load of scrap regularly

 

I got 20-22 with the 200/C4 in the 71 comet I had. And my 302/3 speed was 18-20mpg before I overheated it (snapped the fan belt on the freeway). 14-16 after I overheated it (annoying).

I read somewhere you could get a refreshed 70s 250 up to 28 mpg with mild effort.

 

I just fill up an go, at least I am in a tank like car that can take out some of these things they call cars an suv's. mine gets about 15 a gallon on this 200 auto, 1974 4 dr.

 

I don't want to rain on your parade, but I thought the same thing too. Then I went under the plastic bumper of an SUV. And found out theres metal under there; and the metal on my car is FAR less tank-like than the frame under that plastic.