Looking at new Gasser

rgatijnet1 wrote:

nemo45 wrote:

rr2254545 wrote:
The ride and engine noise now in the back would make me never move back to my Winnebago gasser

Actually my fuel cost per mile computed given current Oregon pricing is .05 per mile less on my diesel, the price is 20% more per gallon but I am getting 33% better fuel economy 7 vs 9.3 mpg now

Ditto! Also the fact that I can actually use my cruise control with my diesel pusher.

Is this another myth from the DP crowd? :B
I cruise at 70MPH with the toad and WITH the cruise control and can match the 9MPG if I want to loaf along in the right lane at 55-60. I am retired and realize that my time left is limited so I prefer to spend the time at my destination rather than sitting in the right lane trying to save a few pennies.

Give me a break! I had a 37-1/2 gasser and drove it at 62 mph, which is what I drive the diesel at, and I never ever hit 9 miles per gallon. The highest I ever got was 8.2 and that was flat land with absolutely no wind. Most the time if it wasn't real windy I got around 7.2 with the gasser. One tank with the diesel and a tail wind I hit 9.8 mpg. This is with an Equinox toad. I had a scan gauge on both the gasser and the diesel and I am going by the average mpg which I zero at every fill. As Will Sonnet said "no brag, just fact". We never travel more than 350 miles a day and I can do that at 62 mph just as easy as 70. Your talking about 36 minutes difference. The point I was trying to make was that for the difference in cost for gas and diesel and maintainance, it is a push, because of the better fuel economy with the DP. So why put up with the gasser? While we liked the floor of our Georgetown gasser you could never get us to go back to one just for the difference in the ride and the noise and the fact that it doesn't sound like its going to explode trying to maintain 62 mph going up a small hill while in cruise control.