MPG with my new R/T AWD
Well i have had her for a 18months now and i must say i love the car. If i cruise at 73 and dont bother her i will get 21 to 23 and thats it. I have gotten as little as 15 had to get some where fast Washington to Pa in 3 hours. All in all 19 is about it on these cars.
I get 10 to 12.5 mpg 2007 AWD HEMI inferno red. I also must mention that I also snaped off the gas pedel the second week I had it...it had 1400 miles on it. The dealer said I brought a new meaning to lead foot. I also got in an accident at 1900 miles due to some slapass is a ford f 350 $13,000.00 in damages. Everything that got damaged was what would be changed to make it look like a SRT-8.....well guess what I did.
We are designing a remote mount twin turbo system for it as I type. Oh yea we just removed fuse 17 at 6:00 pm tue june 12...its now 6:22pm so what the hell am I doing still typing.
GODOFTHEAUTO@MCHSI.COM,GODOFTHEAUTO@HOTMAIL.COM
SINGLE PERFORMANCE
We are designing a remote mount twin turbo system for it as I type. Oh yea we just removed fuse 17 at 6:00 pm tue june 12...its now 6:22pm so what the hell am I doing still typing.
GODOFTHEAUTO@MCHSI.COM,GODOFTHEAUTO@HOTMAIL.COM
SINGLE PERFORMANCE
While I envy your having a trip computer, I wouldn't let it rule my life - well, then again...
I have an '06 RT RWD with 12K on the clock running Mobil 1 (since ~9K). Before that I had an '06 SXT RWD for as many miles on regular oil. Here are my observations:
*In the manual (okay, so it's not my observation) it states that to derive benefit from the MDS, speed should be kept at 65mph or less.
*And just an FYI, prior to their recent test revision, the EPA derived their highway mileage figure from a run at 50 miles per hour(!)
*Altogether, with the same type of driving (sensible - mostly), average mileage has come out straight up the middle of EPA estimates for both: SXT at 19/27 = 23 avg.; RT at 17/25 = 21 avg.
Whereas the 3.5 was a bit sensitive to passenger/cargo loads, the Hemi seems relatively unfazed by weight (as the 1mpg penalty hwy - none city - on your AWD RTattests; SXT AWD gets the same mileage!)
*I coaxed 30+ out of the SXT a couple of times and was disappointed that the RT with MDS didn't seem to want to go past 26. Truth was, I didn't have the heart (restraint?) to drive the RT in an optimal way for mileage.
*Driving a relatively level run for 145 miles on US-27 through rural Florida (mostly level) at 55 on cruise (except for Sebring and other towns), I consumed 4.8 gallons (of 87 octane!), obtaining my Holy Grail: 30 mpg from the Hemi.
Keep in mind that unless you affix a refueling probe and have someone on a tanker truck gingerly manoevre a drogue onto it while underway, your highway sample will be "contaminated" by non-highway driving (accelleration, from/to stations) at either end. This effect will be more pronounced on a shorter run; I went 200 miles at an indicated 3/8 tank consumed but then didn't fill up until I did a couple of errands, which sank what would have been a sweet number to a humble 26 mpg.
[Okay,I know:I'm hypermiling with a Hemi; call me perverse.]
Good Luck!
I have an '06 RT RWD with 12K on the clock running Mobil 1 (since ~9K). Before that I had an '06 SXT RWD for as many miles on regular oil. Here are my observations:
*In the manual (okay, so it's not my observation) it states that to derive benefit from the MDS, speed should be kept at 65mph or less.
*And just an FYI, prior to their recent test revision, the EPA derived their highway mileage figure from a run at 50 miles per hour(!)
*Altogether, with the same type of driving (sensible - mostly), average mileage has come out straight up the middle of EPA estimates for both: SXT at 19/27 = 23 avg.; RT at 17/25 = 21 avg.
Whereas the 3.5 was a bit sensitive to passenger/cargo loads, the Hemi seems relatively unfazed by weight (as the 1mpg penalty hwy - none city - on your AWD RTattests; SXT AWD gets the same mileage!)
*I coaxed 30+ out of the SXT a couple of times and was disappointed that the RT with MDS didn't seem to want to go past 26. Truth was, I didn't have the heart (restraint?) to drive the RT in an optimal way for mileage.
*Driving a relatively level run for 145 miles on US-27 through rural Florida (mostly level) at 55 on cruise (except for Sebring and other towns), I consumed 4.8 gallons (of 87 octane!), obtaining my Holy Grail: 30 mpg from the Hemi.
Keep in mind that unless you affix a refueling probe and have someone on a tanker truck gingerly manoevre a drogue onto it while underway, your highway sample will be "contaminated" by non-highway driving (accelleration, from/to stations) at either end. This effect will be more pronounced on a shorter run; I went 200 miles at an indicated 3/8 tank consumed but then didn't fill up until I did a couple of errands, which sank what would have been a sweet number to a humble 26 mpg.
[Okay,I know:I'm hypermiling with a Hemi; call me perverse.]
Good Luck!


