rv gas mileage

Goldencrazy wrote:
If fuel efficiecy is important you will have the greatest impact looking at your toad. The Ford V-10 will get in the area of 7 mpg depending on conditions. When i tow my Jeep mt toad get's 18 but when I tow my Smart Car i get 45. When i total my fuel for a month of travel my toad is the variable i can control. Sure wish i could tow my Prius 4 down. I did use dolly for awhile but a real pita.

I think this point is often overlooked when people talk gas mileage. My experience is I put at least as many miles on with my tow car as the MH and most times twice the mileage as my MH. My MH has averaged 8.7 mpg over 90k miles of travel. My tow car gets 40 MPG on the highway. So if I make a 1000 trip with the MH and put 2000 miles on my tow car, the MH uses 115 gals and the tow car 50 gals of fuel. So in 3000 miles of travel I would use 165 gals and get on average 18 mpg which isn't bad considering back in the 60's some of my cars would not get 18 mpg or Jeeps or trucks of today. At least that is how I justify RV travel to my wife.