After readign the gas prices page, I wonder what peopel drive to get by where they pay over $1 CAD per litre. So, what do you drive (and engine and gas milage if you know)

We have

2001 Nissan MaximaSE 3.0 v6 25mpg 70L tank
1993 Cadillac STS 4.6 v8 25mpg 76L tank

And the poll - where'd you buy it from?

Currently driving 2000 Olds Intrigue GLS, approx 28MPG. Waiting patiently for next summer when the Cadillac CTSi comes out, if it happens.

Oh yeah, also have a 2002 Chevy Trailblazer. Not sure on the MPG, but it isn't bad for a little truck.

I've got a 5.0l V8 Mustang Cobra (like 10mpg because of no smog and body grounded injectors) and a 2.8l V6 (gas mileage too depressing to count)Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera.

What kidna mileage does a ford 305 get, lightnin?

Originally posted by Mester
What kidna mileage does a ford 305 get, lightnin?

Really lousy...lol...but it's meant for fun not economy. :) It gets about 10-12mpg. 20 on the highway but I live in the city, so that doesn't come into play much.

<edit> it's a 302, not a 305...that's a chevy engine! :D </edit>

A 2000 Dodge Dakota. Get's like 13 City, 17 Highway. I don't know... I don't really care because I don't drive around too much, I'd rather scam rides off of my friends.

1989 Honda Accord LX. Not sure about gas milage though.

1995 ford probe gt 5.0 (same engine a mustang gt uses), turbo charged waiting for nos to be installed...ground fx kit...ill have to take a pic looks awesome its like green, 94 vw jetta (sitting in the shop right now waiting for a paint job)....i have a 02' yz125, and a 84' cm900...

I don't have a car.

what are these poll choices ? what about Australia ?

we have cars too !

I have a Holden , 26 years old, and it runs mainly on LP gas, there is a petrol tank too of course, but only used in emergencies

Originally posted by ATST
I don't have a car.

Originally posted by susannad
what are these poll choices ? what about Australia ?

we have cars too !

I have a Holden , 26 years old, and it runs mainly on LP gas, there is a petrol tank too of course, but only used in emergencies

Holden are now owned by General Motors (GM), so it looks like you'll have to click USA :confused:


:stickout

--Shaun

Originally posted by interactive
1995 ford probe gt 5.0 (same engine a mustang gt uses), turbo charged waiting for nos to be installed...ground fx kit...ill have to take a pic looks awesome its like green, 94 vw jetta (sitting in the shop right now waiting for a paint job)....i have a 02' yz125, and a 84' cm900...

How'd you fit a 5.0 in a Probe? How'd you handle the front wheel drive?

The probe GT comes with a Mazda manufactured 2.5L/153ci DOHC V6 generally. I can't see a 302 even fitting in there!

ah shaunewing ..I forgot !

holden has gone the way of arnotts biscuits, cadburys and vegemite

multinationalists rule

Holden Monaro = new Pontiac GTO for 2004, so it's said.

Originally posted by DizixCom
Holden Monaro = new Pontiac GTO for 2004, so it's said.
Our neighbour has one of the new Monaros - very nice cars.

Originally posted by lightnin


How'd you fit a 5.0 in a Probe? How'd you handle the front wheel drive?

The probe GT comes with a Mazda manufactured 2.5L/153ci DOHC V6 generally. I can't see a 302 even fitting in there!

stripped the transmission...everything out...i had to make my own rear axel (actually had a shop do it for me)...it sits a bit higher in the back than the front...but with the gfx kit (which i had modded) it looks fine...the original 2.5l v6 (mazda your right, which is owned by ford) had over 250k miles on it...i wasn't really looking to mod it...so basicly i took a front wheel drive car and turned it into a rear wheel drive ;-)...it was originally a automatic modified it and its now a standard (ripped the consul out of a standard)...runs good...cept it will probly never be street legal

Sweet, sounds awesome. :)

next project after i finish my jetta is probly really stupid but i want to take a 4 door geo metro....and drop a 351 in it....the torque from the engine will probly like destory the frame but it will be fun for a bit..:D

Lil Red Vet - 1990

Nissan Mexima 96 about 14 miles a gallon.
Nissan Pathfinder 96 about 12 miles a gallon.
I use PathFinder only on highways tho.

2002 Ford Escape SE (20 Miles per gallon)
2002 Dodge Stratus SXT (23 Miles per gallon)

2000 Honda Civic LX...get 35 mpg except for this last week where I got stuck in stopped traffic for a full half an hour on a road where the speed limit is 65 MPH and there are 4 lanes...

'78 Ford F-150... 12MPG

Buying a '69 Buick Skylark.... 15MPG

Originally posted by ATST
I don't have a car.
Phrozen, I do have a Truck though.
Everyone doesn't drive cars you know.

91 Camry DX 35-42 mpg. (Toyota made a damn good little car there, sturdy as hell)

Waiting for my Dad's Old 89 Plymouth Van to die so I can give him my camry and upgrade... Contimplating a Toyota Tacoma but I've always wanted a Stang! :rolleyes:

Originally posted by interactive
next project after i finish my jetta is probly really stupid but i want to take a 4 door geo metro....and drop a 351 in it....the torque from the engine will probly like destory the frame but it will be fun for a bit..:D

Pinto with a 460 is more fun. :D

lol...that would be..my jetta is gunna have a 444 in it (good engine i might add), but i have to sell my probe first before i can start the jetta (mom's wishes)...i'm gunna try to keep the jetta legal (big mistake on the probe i modified the exhaust system, fuel injection, i bord it out (which isn't illegal), and in the state of arizona having nos on your car is illegal)...

My car is 100% American muscle...oh who am I kidding? '93 Saturn SL here :stickout: Saturn was made to copy the Jap imports, and they actually did a pretty good job of it. In other words, it's cheap, reliable, fuel efficient and slow:smash: It's actually kinda fun to drive though...no auto tranny or power steering crap. I'll probably keep driving it until I can afford something real nice. Maybe a yellow C5 vert...some day :cool: (Yellow makes your car faster, just ask a local ricer :D)

lol i like saturn nice cars my aunt had one and rolled it at like 70mph should have died but she lived cause of her saturn...and she got like 58mph going to texas in her new one.

That's good to know, since I usually cruise at around 70mph on the highways here ;) Of course, any faster and I'm over 3k RPM, even in 5th:smash:

2001 stang, weee =]

2001 Hyundai Tiburon SE (Hyundai is Korean too).

Originally posted by ATST

Phrozen, I do have a Truck though.OK, thanks for sharing.
Everyone doesn't drive cars you know. Umm... I don't believe I ever said they did...


And now back to my original comment:

I don't have a vehicle; I walk.

I have a 1998 black Jeep Grand Cherokee limited edition..

1995 Grand Am
1991 Toyota Cressida
1987 Toyota Supra

The Supra is being sold in the paper as soon as I can force him to give it up, and I don't know about that other crap (engine and gas mileage) :P

1995 Subaru Imprezza AWD (Daily Driver)
1987 Buick Grand National 3.8 Turbo (Weekend Warrior)

'98 Harley
Loud-N-Proud!
45MPG

1988 Ford F-150 4.9L 15 MPG - 140,000 mile
1989 Isuzu P-up Ext. Cab 2.6L 30 MPG - 125,000 miles
1991 Kawaski EX-500 500cc 50-55 MPG - 7000 miles

All highway miles

Thinking about getting a new Ford Ranger Edge. Really like the style of the pickup. Haven't check the mpg on those but thinking maybe around 28.

I own a '94 Saturn SL3 fully loaded - with those cool automatic seat belts.

haven't worked out my mileage but I know I can go 500km on a tank of gas through the city. Gas tank is approximately 27 Liters.

On highway driving I can get about 600km per tank.

I call it my Tonka Toy - It's made of plastic :D It'll never rust! The body can outlast any Japanese Engine. :D

'79 Ford F100, 17mpg (302, 3spd with o/d)
actually, now it's got a 9" rearend whereas before it had 8.8" and I haven't driven it since I replaced that so I don't know.. might get a little better than 17mpg now

1994 Infiniti J30 (20 MPG) -- Daily Driver
1999 Eclipse Spyder GST -- Project Car (yards to the gallon)..

Currently rebuilding the tranny b/c the second differential in 2 months just blew again... :angry:

The first tranny rebuild can be found here...
http://std64.com/tranny

2002 - Mitsubishi Mirage Mivec Type - 4G93T

Getting those 2.0 V6 Engines later :-)

A 2003 BMW 330 equiped with sports package, 18" rims, and my l33t crome gear stick :D

i don't have a car. i take the public bus.:D :cool: :cool:

01 Stang Conv GT - Lots of mods done etc...

You can kinda see it a little in this picture of my dog.

http://pix.hrnoc.net/08big.jpg

-Brendan

Here's my work car! :D :D

My real car is a 1995 "SOB" Convertible, White /Black Top.

why does everyone like those stupid new stangs?

Originally posted by Mester
After readign the gas prices page, I wonder what peopel drive to get by where they pay over $1 CAD per litre. So, what do you drive (and engine and gas milage if you know)

We have

2001 Nissan MaximaSE 3.0 v6 25mpg 70L tank
1993 Cadillac STS 4.6 v8 25mpg 76L tank

And the poll - where'd you buy it from?

I have a 92 Cadillac Eldorado (4.9 v8, 18 GAL. tank) and get 17.2 MPG in the city and 22-25 on the highway.

When I bought my car I was only getting 14-15 MPG in the city and then my dad and I applied a lot of tips and tricks from www.caddyinfo.com, and they really worked!

I envy your northstar :angry: as I almost got a '93 but couldn't tell a difference other than the price tag.

I'm still quite happy with my purchase though because I've modified my front bumper and rear bumper and it now looks like a 2000. The only difference is I don't have fog lights.

This is the only way you can tell my car isn't a 2000+ beside the interior.

Okay, enough car talk now. Back to hosting..

P.S. Gas is $1.61 here, but if I drive to the middle of twon it's a $1.57.

Originally posted by NumLock
i don't have a car. i take the public bus.:D :cool: :cool: I remember those days all too well...have fun! :D

2002 M3 it gets about 22MPH average, but recently i have been getting something like 18MPH because of my bad driving habits

i drive a 2k1 toyota camry, gonna trade it in for a impreza wrx next year. :D

yo interactive, can you post a picture of that ford you have?
and have you ever raced it?
quarter mile?

Originally posted by coolguy23
yo interactive, can you post a picture of that ford you have?
and have you ever raced it?
quarter mile?

ive thought about racing it..just haven't done it...i took it to the dry lake near my house (its like the salt flats basicly if you know what those are)...i out ran my bike going from 0-60 (bike weighs 200 pounds and it roars)...that was without the turbo on it...i saw on a while back on ebay ill try to pull up pics of what mine sorta looks like...i dont have a digital camera so i have to use a 35mm and scan it...so ill get one out later sometime and post a thread with it...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1868622572 thats basicly what mine looks like...i have better rims..mine is a darker green (more of a metalic)...no sun roof...even though i have a gfx kit on it it still sits pretty high cause of the rear end, sits about 4 inches off the ground with the kit...

cool, how fast do you think you can reach on it?

probly like 160 if it had good tires...right now the tires are good (cost $299 a peice) but they are low profile tires not designed for speed...so at high speeds they would vaporize lol...i need to get some decent slicks on it

I just purchased a new Volkswagen Passat on Wednesday, runs like a charm :D

1957 Chevy Bel Air

Technically it's my folks, but they let me use it...That baby is great. Talk about babe magnet. The only problem is that every dude in the world asks 'Are you selling that?'

2001 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 (Silver/Black).

2000 Jeep Cherokee Laredo (Black/Black).

Oh yeah, my car is a 1997 Nissan Pathfinder. I bought from my dad for $2000, its pretty cool. Good for 'Metal Head Beach Bash #5", but thats another story that involves dead seagulls, and lighter fluid covered hamburgers....OH well.

3 Jeeps Cherokees (one is the wifes), and an older Dodge truck. :)

1994 Lincoln Mark VIII. All-Aluminum V8, Ford's version of NorthStar. Gorgeous car.
Got it 5 years ago when I was on the road constantly. Gets 26 mph highway, about 8 in the city -- on premium.
Has 186,000 miles on it and I need to put it out to pasture very soon. Climate Control has died and it costs a fortune to fix. Transmission is going, too. Motor is strong, though. Love that V8!
Wonderful highway car.

That's a ford for ya ;)

Originally posted by interactive
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1868622572 That is some truly disgusting rice :puke: I hope yours doesn't look too much like it :)

lol....like i said he has a crappy paint job on that....mine is like metalic green looks awesome.

Originally posted by madmouser
Gets 26 mph highway, about 8 in the city Only 26 miles per hour? I really hope you meant mpg... ;)

Originally posted by interactive
1995 ford probe gt 5.0 (same engine a mustang gt uses), turbo charged waiting for nos to be installed...ground fx kit...ill have to take a pic looks awesome its like green, 94 vw jetta (sitting in the shop right now waiting for a paint job)....i have a 02' yz125, and a 84' cm900...

ford doesn't put 5 liter in the probe... its a v6.... and your nuts with a turbo and nos....

Yeah, because 26mph is much too slow during off-peak hours, and there's no way you could go even half that during rush hour :stickout:

Originally posted by interactive
probly like 160 if it had good tires...right now the tires are good (cost $299 a peice) but they are low profile tires not designed for speed...so at high speeds they would vaporize lol...i need to get some decent slicks on it

generally the low profile tires are for high speed driving... i do roadracing... and i have 35 profile zr rated tires.... you would use slicks for drag....

Originally posted by haxorboi


ford doesn't put 5 liter in the probe... its a v6.... and your nuts with a turbo and nos....

if you read the post past that i describe what i did...

Originally posted by haxorboi


generally the low profile tires are for high speed driving... i do roadracing... and i have 35 profile zr rated tires.... you would use slicks for drag....

low profile show tires to be more exact...i originally planned on showing the car....then changed my mind..

Originally posted by Phrozen
Only 26 miles per hour? I really hope you meant mpg... ;)

Yep, that should be mpg. It does considerably better than 26 mph. :D

Originally posted by interactive


low profile show tires to be more exact...i originally planned on showing the car....then changed my mind..

I have 18" Lexani Krystals w/ 245-40-18 ZR Nitto's :)

<not bragging>

I have an old 1986 Dodge Aries wagon. I paid $200 for it and had it for over 2 years, and it still runs great :) I can get about 260 miles per tank before I need gas (gas guage doesnt work though I know whats wrong with it).

My 2002 BMW, plates= auzzie

Side (http://cvf.net/back0.jpg)
Back, 1st view (http://cvf.net/side.jpg)
Back, 2nd view (http://cvf.net/back1.jpg)

I imported the rear indicator bulbs from Europe so my rear indicators have the true clear look.

:D

New VW Passat 1.6 variation.

Cool

Alex

2004 pontiac gran prix gt my first and only car so far