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I get about the same
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MPG coming back from VA this weekend..wow

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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 12:16 AM
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Default MPG coming back from VA this weekend..wow

So I was driving back from VA to NC this weekend and decided to see what this car could do MPG wise.. This picture is the best AVERAGE mpg I got after filling up and travelling over 135miles. Total trip MPG was 28.1mpg (225miles, mpg verified at the pump).

I was impressed for a car this big, this old, and with over 150k miles on her.

1989 Oldsmobile 98

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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 12:25 AM
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Not bad for an LN3! I averaged about 24 combined highway/city with my 89 Bonne.

But with my 93, I got about 32 at about 70-75 in 3 hours of rush hour all the way through chicagoland, and then 29 back with some city thrown in..so thats not bad for an LN3 at all.

I haven't seen one of those computers since my '89 Ciera International! The screen in mine was burned out, but you could still see it at night. Thats such awesome technology to find in a domestic for 1989.
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Originally Posted by wjcollier07
I haven't seen one of those computers since my '89 Ciera International! The screen in mine was burned out, but you could still see it at night. Thats such awesome technology to find in a domestic for 1989.
Yup, the Olds 98 was nice for its time. Everything except cruise works on mine (which I would LOVE to get working). Every function in that computer works.
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 02:05 AM
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my car doesn't have that niffty looking stuff in it! no fair!
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 11:47 AM
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Oldsmobile was the KING of putting advanced Driver Info Centers in their cars, that one looks remarkably similar to the DIC in my Aurora.
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 12:31 PM
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Those onboard computers are really cool. I have a 99 Mercury Grand Marquis, and it shows average MPG, but also shows instantly, the current MPG you are getting. It'* cool to be going 60 mph and letting off on the gas going down a hill and then the current mpg goes up to 99 mpg! Last trip I took with the Bonne I got 31 mpg at 70 mph.
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 12:36 PM
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when i drive to my parents propety up north and 90% of it is expressway i only get at BEST 22 MPG. And thats my 04 GXP

somthings got to be wrong.

the best i go just driven around my house i only get like 16MGP.

somthing got to be wrong.

i dont drive it hard. i baby her.
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16 around town is not bad, but something is wrong if you only get 22 on the hiway.
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