I can't afford a new hybrid so a friend wants to give me his 1970 VW microbus which should get better mileage than my Mercury.. Anybody have experience with old VWs? It has the 1600cc engine. What fuel mileage did you get with yours? Gas down here in south FL is $3 per gallon!
2007-03-28 17:05:09 · 9 answers · asked by Paul 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Volkswagen
Gonna have to be better than that. My 1990 Mercury gets 30 mpg on the highway with AC and 100 more horsepower than the Veedub. It also has over 200K miles and still going strong. Maybe the Veedub ain't such a great idea after all...
2007-03-28 17:34:32 · update #1
I'd say in normal city/hwy driving mix, the low 20s for a microbus, and no fun at all to drive. Primitive at best.
2007-03-29 05:21:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the microbus has character that your merc doesn't. old vw's are not about convenience or creature comforts, they are there for fun. plus there is more room for nookie in your microbus. i have a 71 superbeetle that i have had for a little over a year, and it is the most fun vehicle i have ever owned. (my gas guage doesn't work right anymore so mpg is only gonna be a guess) but i'd say somewhere near 30-35 in the city, 20-ish on the highway. maybe if i didn't try to blow it up every time i was on the highway.....
2007-03-30 13:23:52 · answer #2 · answered by michael_oxgood 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, for a microbus don't expect much more than 20-25. My daily driver is a diesel rabbit that gets 50 mpg. It also runs part-time on vegetable oil (for free), so I'm really only paying as much as if it got over 100 mpg. If you're really looking for economy, the VW diesels are the way to go.
2007-03-29 17:02:15 · answer #3 · answered by srghadf 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-16 20:14:05 · answer #4 · answered by turnbough 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your new Merc(relatively) will murder a 1.6L Bus any day of the week. Carbs can't compete with computer control F.I. and the drag co-efficient of a Microbus is like a sheet of plywood. The sable /Taurus is an excellent aerodynamic vehicle with an over drive transmission that the bus can't even dream of. The manul trans. in the bus is not over drive but probable .98 to 1 under drive to actually propel it at highway speeds.
Bad trade if fuel economy is your bench mark
Good trade if having a sex wagon is! Chicks dig the bus!
2007-03-31 12:35:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a 1989 VW cabriolet. I have had her since she was born. I get about 25 miles to the gallon now. I don't know about the microbus but most VW do well with gas. The great thing is they keep going and going.
2007-03-28 17:15:49 · answer #6 · answered by pats fan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my 1967 beetle gets around 23 mpg and i have a 1600cc on it but with a c-120 engle cam,empi streetflow heads,and 92mm pistons which makes it a 1914cc but on a dyno i turn 101hp and 132ft ilbs of torque which is more than enuff for a lightweight vw like mine not to mention it's alot of fun and i can nearly smoke a v8 on a 1/8 mile dragstrip.
2007-04-04 16:54:02 · answer #7 · answered by grady c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
25 at best. My diesel got 73 in the summer months
2007-03-29 03:50:35 · answer #8 · answered by ButwhatdoIno? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My '69 used to get no more than 25mpg with mostly highway driving. It's just old technology.
2007-03-29 14:45:52 · answer #9 · answered by squeezie_1999 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋