Crummy fuel economy
I towed a tag trailer 450 km down the highway at 55-60 mph and got 37 liters/100 km. (6.4 mpg). Can you get a Dodge or GM to go through that much fuel?
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downtheroad wrote:
You titled your this thread, "Crummy fuel economy."
RV'ing = Crummy fuel economy . That's the way it is.
See this comment all the time.
Blanket statements just don't work. What's crumby? 5-mpg? 10-mpg? 15-mpg?
And in comparison to what standard? 30 or 40? 20?
If one starts from scratch with an assumption -- that fuel costs can be half or the cost of vacation trip -- then investigation can find examples where MPG is not the penalty one may have thought was common. Mandatory. If higher MPG means more travel, then stick to finding what works.
I recently came across someone using a Ford Transit seeing 20-mpg towing a smaller Airstream over thousands of miles. Out West, IIRC. Higher with TD sedans.
And I'm one of many seeing 14-16/mpg towing a 28-35' aero TT using a 3rd Gen Cummins one ton.
I spec'd my rig carefully. 15-mpg hwy average with a 35' TT is far from impossible. And my purchase cost of both was roughly equivalent to the starting price on today's pickups.
Complaints that these types of rigs are expensive up front is beside the point. Excellent used examples can be found. That this TT type has an indefinite lifespan makes purchase easy.
The TV that best matches solo use is also more economical. Start there.
Start with a larger picture. A nice combined rig RV is more than a pair of payments plus weekly fuel cost. Lose those handcuffs.
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