Well I have to be honest and say that on my trip to FL over Labor Day last year I was able to eek out 27MPG in my turbo.The secret is going really far.....really slow. I think I kept the cruise on 70 the whole way there and it was a 600+ mile trip.
On my Dakota R/Ts that I had, the magic number was 60MPH. With the gearing in the rear (3.92) it would get OK (for a 5.9 V8) at that speed.The best I got in that truck was 21 doing no more than 60 for a long distance trip.Once you went over 60 it dropped like a brick to around 16 or 17 at about 75MPH.
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