Road warrior

[Aurora40]

The last two weekends in a row, our Aurora was on the road. One was with the 'vette 700 miles one way to Bowling Green, KY, then last week 350 miles one way to Cleveland. The Aurora looks pretty cool in the rearview. It looks sort of low, the tires are fairly wide, not a bad stance for a fairly large car.

We got lots of rain, and the car looked like hell afterwards, but it performed flawlessly, always ready to go another mile.

I used the cruise control a lot on the way home from Cleveland, and managed 26.5mpg going about 75-77mph most of the time. I usually get around 25.5 with no cruise, going 70-80mph. I imagine if we could tolerate driving slower, pushing 30mpg even with all the hills/mountains would be possible. But time is money, and 10mph on a 350 mile trip makes a difference.

[Deleted]

nice. I recnelty got the rora out of the shop and took her down to carbondale 400 miles both ways (senic route). Car handled flawlessly and drove better than it ever had in the time that I've had it. I averaged a clean 27.5 mpg at 70 mph almost the whole way. though I did have some mixed country/city driving. Coming up on the 21st ill be takin the rora up to starved rock witch is a good 1-1/2 hours away from my present local. Hopefully it performs great.

[Aurora40]

Yeah, these cars just eat up the miles.

One thing that surprised me was the nav system didn't have detailed maps of Bowling Green. It could find most stuff, but not everything. Like the road our hotel was on was not mapped.

[Marc]

30 mpg from a 4.0 is possible. About a year after I got my 2001, I had the DIC set to show inst. gas mileage and at 65 mph on level ground, it read 29 mpg. So maybe at 60 it would get 30 mpg.

[lanceslambos]

actually with the classic i think 68-72 is the sweet spot 30 mpg level ground, windows up, vents on, premium gas, cruise control, no wind to slight tail wind