October 18, 2012 at 4:45 am
#773955
miws
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I’ve hit 130 mph no sweat and even at 75 mph that 5 cylinder rolls out a good 34 mpg..
Please tell us that these speeds were not reached around here.
Perhaps the VW was purchased directly in Germany, and you drove the Autobahn? Or, perhaps, this occurred in Montana, on one of those highways that had no speed limit?
Perhaps the 130 was “just to see what it could do”. I did that with my ’67 Beetle, back in the mid ’80’s. Got ‘er up to 80-85 for a few seconds on SR 12, out of Olympia, heading to the Ocean.
But, you’d have to had hit 75 on more than one occasion, to determine that MPG.
Mike