[torqueaddict]

Originally Posted by mdhopt36

"why go from a V6 to a V8 if you drive it gently enough to get "30-35" mpg?"
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25 miles from nearest expressway, so around here most of the time as a D/D; yes, you have to drive with an IQ greater than 2-digits; with cops thicker than outhouse flies, a drug operation going on somewhere in the area, and school startup with kids and busses scattered around. And the propensity of idiots painting bike lanes recently all over 4-lane roads, and cutting them down to 2-lanes---for bozo's that pay nothing to maintain the infrastructure. Don't get me started on that one.
But if you're talking expressway, yeah, I get 27 at average 85-90mph barring any cops with Kodaks.
6500~ miles on 6 month old car, so it doesn't do a whole lot of holding a garage-queen title.
Plus, wife starts to bitch if I get the right foot syndrome if she's with me.

Downhill record to work with no busses or kids, 39.1. Going back up, 25~ dropping the average to 32~
Totally realistic.

That's way too optimistic for the V8, even the auto.