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Originally Posted by Dean2
Based on those numbers you are getting about 10 mpg. Even for a 1998 that is really bad mileage. My 1996 8 litre V10 does 15 highway and 12 around town and it puts out 300 horse and 450 FT Lbs of Torque. Now depending on how much you drive the pickup it may not matter. That and you can buy a whole bunch of gas for the 50,000 it would take to replace it. Even if you triple your gas mileage you will never break even. Over 300,000 Klms at 10 mpg gas costs 11,054, at 30 miles per gallon it cost 3685, saving you 7,350. That means it would take you more than 2 million kilometres for the gas savings to pay for a new truck. It is why gas mileage isn't really one of my major considerations when looking at vehicles.
Waldew, that is great gas mileage out of a Jeep. The new ones really do seem to turn in much better mileage than those made ten years ago.
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I think you missed a decimal point Dean....quick calculations look like your gas costs for 300,000 km are closer to $100,000 for the 10 mpg rig, not $11,000. You might want to check and correct???