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skinny2 wrote:Too true. The new Pathfinder is essentially a minivan in my opinion. That is why I finally stepped up to the plate and bought my 2011. Figured I would have zero chance of buyer's remorse due to wanting the new model.NmexMAX wrote:I spend a lot of time in a Suburban (company vehicle) and it doesn't do much lower than my PF, but obviously doesn't have the performance. Another coworker has an Armada and it also gets relatively poor mpg...16ish on average. I'll be disappointed when I have to buy a new vehicle now that the PF has been neutered and the 4Runner looks like a fish.doctahjones wrote:It's common for the V8, Titan guys have it even worse from what I've read.
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You could always go Jeep Grand Cherokee. Those look pretty nice.
Here in North America, someone has determined that the American public can easily afford vehicles that get poor mileage vs. the diesel. Count yourself fortunate to have the diesel & manual transmission option. Then they add 10% corn ethanol & are now fighting to mandate 15%. In the past year was able to get a tank of 0% ethanol & recorded a 10-12% increase in MPG. Tell me how I reduce the importing of oil with such ethanol mandated logic. Seems like forced support of the farm industry with little overall gain, if any. I will agree that a small % of ethanol seems to make the air cleaner.Lost Kiwi wrote:The Diesel Model for a 2 Tonne truck sips fuel,
I get 9.5 L/100km (25MPG) on average and have gotten down to 8L on a country trip, (30MPG)
It doesn't even do that though. It's a complete boondoggle.CPLTECH wrote:Tell me how I reduce the importing of oil with such ethanol mandated logic. Seems like forced support of the farm industry with little overall gain, if any. I will agree that a small % of ethanol seems to make the air cleaner.
No clue. But, I don't see a noticeable difference between having my kayak racks up top as opposed to not having them. Then again, that's a summer/winter thing, which does go back to the additives/"winter blend"/CRAP they put in our fuel during the white months.RacerZX wrote: Anybody have a feel for how much fuel savings you get from taking off the roof rack cross bars? Or turning off the AWD mode for LE models?
I don't have my cross bars on and didn't notice a difference when I removed them. It clearly would only come into play on the highway. I'm not familiar enough with how the AWD works on these to comment, but my guess is that Auto does impact something or you wouldn't have a 2wd option.RacerZX wrote:So steering back to the original question...
Anybody have a feel for how much fuel savings you get from taking off the roof rack cross bars? Or turning off the AWD mode for LE models?
RacerZX wrote:So steering back to the original question...
Anybody have a feel for how much fuel savings you get from taking off the roof rack cross bars? Or turning off the AWD mode for LE models?
Hey, this is my post and I can go off on a tangent if I wanna!RacerZX wrote:So steering back to the original question...
Anybody have a feel for how much fuel savings you get from taking off the roof rack cross bars? Or turning off the AWD mode for LE models?