Suburban Diesel Fuel Mileage Test
TFL drove a Surburban with a Duramax diesel made ~27mpg with a range of 612 miles driving on fumes. Pretty impressive setup but again highway miles is where todays diesel emission diesels shine. L...
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GDS-3950BH wrote:
Around here with diesel running around $0.45 to $0.55 more per gallon than unleaded consistently, sometimes more, it's a wash. 2018 Burb with 6.0 would get a consistent 19.5 highway.
20 gallons UL @ 19.5mpg @ $2.50 = $50.00/390 miles/ $0.1282 per mile.
20 gallons D @ 27mpg @ $3.00 = $60.00/540 miles/ $0.1111 per mile.
I guess if saving $0.0171 per mile gets you off, it's incredible, thats a whopping $1710 over 100K miles which pays for the $1000.00 upcharge to the 3.0, with $710.00 to spare. Just hope the difference between fuels does not increase to $0.60 or god forbid $0.70
TFL......LOL......those guys need to get real jobs. They have too much time on their hands and too many cult like followers paying them to do basically nothing providing useless info and reviews/tests such as those IKE towing comparisons.
And 87 octane is 80 cents / gal higher than diesel up here. Give credit when credit is due - this engine is amazing as far as efficiency goes. (reliability is yet to be seen)
Try producing video content like TFL, it'll humble you on what "real work" is.
