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I'm in as well, which one do you want?
The work vehicle, a D-2500 slt laramie roadmaster, between truck and trailer and equipment roughly 6,000 pounds, a 360 cid Magnum engine. This thing has no small fuel tank, hardly gets 11 mpg but she'll tank 25+ gallons without burping or thanking you.
Couldn't tell you the cost per gallon, she's on fleet fuel, but I can tell you the mpg between fill ups and totals per month. I've been working on this the whole year, my older carbureted 3/4 ton 318cid got 14mpg, I can't seem to get this one near 12!
Oddly enough she gets 17-20 unloaded, with dual overdrive 1,200 rpm's at 55mph.
At least with dodge I have the advantage of a low compression engine, I can do 0-60 in 5 miles if I want. Resisting the temptation of 400 horses of power, that is another story.
The cars, one a '91 bmw 318 (1.8litre), the other an '88 bmw 325ic (2.5 i6), both of these have about a 13g tank, the 4 gets 25mpg the 6 about 9.3 litres / 100klm (both have FE gauges), however both of these are constrained to a budget of $10 per week (yes, for both), I've gone 2-4 weeks without dumping fuel in either.
With these high compression engines there's not much doing, slow acceleration fine, but might as well give it some throttle because sipping these things does not work.
Resisting temptation is bad enough, but a high compression engine simply will NOT accelerate unless it has the fuel to do it with, it can not be sipped.
The 318 is currently DOA, she's sat for 6 months or better (rear wheel bearings).
The 325 just got her $10 sunday before last, be later this week before the next $10.
Although I do prefer dumping $20 in at a time, then 2-4 weeks in between.
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A FE gauge should be standard equipment in every vehicle.
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