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thermidorthelobster:
Driving back down on the A-roads and motorways from somewhere near Leicester last night (to find a bloody LPG station which was open and had fuel) I did a bit of arithmetic.

101FC, 6x6, 4.25 tonnes, 3.5 V8 High Compression @ about 158bhp theoretically, 55mph cruising speed.  75 litres of LPG, 122 miles between fills...   AAARGH!  That's just under 8mpg!

Now I'd never expected the economy to be brilliant, but this is beyond the pale...  Particularly as it runs *better* on LPG than Unleaded.  Even allowing for inaccurate LPG tank filling it's a bit of a disaster.

Should I be looking for ways to improve this, or is it just what I should expect?

Any other V8 drivers towing trailers on a regular basis at about this weight?  What are you getting?

hobbit:
err, fit bigger/more gas tanks :wink:

littlepow:
:lol:
Try a big V8 diesel....
or may be a fuel tanker for a trailer

muddyweb:
On petrol, towing our big exhibition unit (around 2 tonnes, and the shape of a house), I reckon to be getting between 12-15mpg... but that isn't being overly sympathetic to the loud pedal :-)

Maybe you should work on pence per mile, rather than mpg... might make you feel better ;-)

s.stirley:
Yes, it's pence per mile that you need to work out .. I get around 12mpg on gas I think, but that's under 15p a mile usually and since the wife's Galaxy TDi costs 11p a mile I don't consider it bad !

I think you'd struggle to do much better than that too, it's an awful lot of weight to lug around really.

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