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I have owned & been driving my 85 olds since 5.1996 (didn't drive from 04-09) & it runs great. The milage is 134,200 & I got car with 91k miles. I have mostly driven car in town & gotten horrible mpg but now that I drive mostly freeway i get better mpg ( OD tranny). my car gets a combined 18 mpg (in 1985 it was listed at 15/19). Not bad for a 34 yr old daily driver.
I have owned & been driving my 85 olds since 5.1996 (didn't drive from 04-09) & it runs great. The milage is 134,200 & I got car with 91k miles. I have mostly driven car in town & gotten horrible mpg but now that I drive mostly freeway i get better mpg ( OD tranny). my car gets a combined 18 mpg (in 1985 it was listed at 15/19). Not bad for a 34 yr old daily driver.
The car I just bought...a 2013 Honda CRV with a 4 cylinder, is getting around 21 mpg (without the ECO button used).
Always liked the mid 70s Cutlass. That genre of cars is completely gone. The market was full of what I call personal luxury cars, although Cutlass wasn't really luxury by any standard. Not sure if it came with a performance package option.
Had a 2 door 84 Buick Lesabre. I bought it in 2000 with 60,000 original miles. I drove it to about 260,000 and hardly ever turned a wrench on it. I think I probably put a new water pump on it.
The lease is up on my Forte so I'm now driving my late mother's 2002 Chrysler Concord Limited. It only had 69K miles on it. I spent $900 for new tires & brakes but it runs fine and it is the most upgraded vehicle I've ever owned with all leather interior, moon roof, great stereo system, etc. Not great on gas but I don't put a lot of miles on my cars.
I have owned & been driving my 85 olds since 5.1996 (didn't drive from 04-09) & it runs great. The milage is 134,200 & I got car with 91k miles. I have mostly driven car in town & gotten horrible mpg but now that I drive mostly freeway i get better mpg ( OD tranny). my car gets a combined 18 mpg (in 1985 it was listed at 15/19). Not bad for a 34 yr old daily driver.
I owned the same car, only mine was a 1986. White with red plush interior. The car was in great shape and I bought it for a thousand as a work car. Had around 110K miles on it. Problem is, that car was never driven hard over its lifespan, and I started driving it harder than it ever had been. I eventually lost compression on one of the cylinders and the car ran like crap after that. That was back in 2013. I traded it in on my daily driver I have today.
I still remember that car barely had any door dings on it, and after parking it at work, supermarket, etc, it looked like someone took a ball peen hammer to it. Amazing how things have changed, especially in regards to rust.
I have owned & been driving my 85 olds since 5.1996 (didn't drive from 04-09) & it runs great. The milage is 134,200 & I got car with 91k miles. I have mostly driven car in town & gotten horrible mpg but now that I drive mostly freeway i get better mpg ( OD tranny). my car gets a combined 18 mpg (in 1985 it was listed at 15/19). Not bad for a 34 yr old daily driver.
I was a kid when I bought a brand new Olds 98 Regency 4 door, beautiful Burgandy metallic paint, burgandy padded vinyl top, rare moonroof, button and tucked pillow backed matching velour sofa-like front and rear seating 60/40 front, sharp wire hubs, powerful V8, smooth tranny, am/fm/tape, Opera lights lol, pwr ant, and the car was pretty damn good on gas, especially on HWY....bought it at Ed Voyles in Atlanta. Nobody believed that a young kid could buy a luxury car (at the time) ...the car was on the identical platform as a Caddy Sedan Deville...it was a great vehicle with no problems whatsoever! I later got big money for it on a trade on a gorgeous white Olds Toronado at Bert Smith in St Pete, which also was the same car as a Caddy Eldorado (which I bought one year later). The 2 Olds got pretty good mileage, the The Toto was worse because of FWD.
I was a kid when I bought a brand new Olds 98 Regency 4 door, beautiful Burgandy metallic paint, burgandy padded vinyl top, rare moonroof, button and tucked pillow backed matching velour sofa-like front and rear seating 60/40 front, sharp wire hubs, powerful V8, smooth tranny, am/fm/tape, Opera lights lol, pwr ant, and the car was pretty damn good on gas, especially on HWY....bought it at Ed Voyles in Atlanta. Nobody believed that a young kid could buy a luxury car (at the time) ...the car was on the identical platform as a Caddy Sedan Deville...it was a great vehicle with no problems whatsoever! I later got big money for it on a trade on a gorgeous white Olds Toronado at Bert Smith in St Pete, which also was the same car as a Caddy Eldorado (which I bought one year later). The 2 Olds got pretty good mileage, the The Toto was worse because of FWD.
We owned the identical car (all the way down to the colors) save for a couple of options and one glaring deficiency... it had the 5.7 Diesel in it. It was the slowest car I've ever driven, by leaps and bounds, but for a giant car like that the mileage was incredible. Without an overdrive transmission (we were 1 year too early to get it) it would get 31-32mpg with the cruise set at 65 (and running it harder than 65 was just asking to grenade that garbage motor, so we didn't).
These days I'll take the fuel economy Pepsi challenge with my daily beater: 1995 Escort Wagon, 5 speed manual transmission... It gets 28-30mpg city with the A/C blasting on high and has gotten up to 39mpg cruising at 60-ish on state highways in the winter. It's hard to find a car that has so much interior hauling capability that gets that kind of economy these days. It's amazing how much crap you can pack into that thing.
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