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Old 05-08-2024, 07:01 PM   #29
GreenZLE
 
Drives: 2020 Rally Green ZL1-1LE
Join Date: May 2020
Location: Illinois
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Originally Posted by Capricio View Post
Some of the worst "improvements" to enhance EPA rated mileage:
  • Timing belts instead of chains, expensive service every 50k miles
  • Turbos on small displacement engines with no real world improvement in mileage despite what happens on a test stand.
  • Over complicating automatic transmissions with more than 6 gears

My Equinox with a 1.5L Turbo gets 24MPG. WHAT A JOKE!!!


If it had a Buick 3.8, it would get at least 27! My 2002 Park Avenue got 29.
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