I'm with you rIot, those seem awfully high. Here's a Time article from 1973, I was barely 7 months old at the time, but they listed a series of cars and their gas mileage...there are a couple with 440's in the list too, all single digit gas mileage.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 90,00.html
Oh, and if you are old enough, which I am you'd know Datsun is now Nissan
Datsun 1200 (71.5-cu.-in. engine, manual transmission), 28.7 m.p.g., the best performance of any auto tested.
Volkswagen Sedan (96.6-cu.-in. engine, manual transmission), 23.6 m.p.g.
Chevrolet Vega (140-cu.-in. engine, manual transmission), 21.5 m.p.g.
Ford Pinto (98-cu.-in. engine, manual transmission), 21.4 m.p.g.
Toyota Corolla (97-cu.-in. engine, manual transmission), 20.8 m.p.g.
American Motors Gremlin (232-cu.-in. engine, manual transmission), 18 m.p.g.
Dodge Charger (318-cu.-in. engine, automatic transmission), 12.2 m.p.g.
Chevrolet Impala (454-cu.-in. engine, automatic transmission), 10.1 m.p.g.
Chrysler Imperial (440-cu.-in. engine, automatic transmission), 9.2 m.p.g.
Plymouth Fury (440-cu.-in. engine, automatic transmission), 8.7 m.p.g.
Oldsmobile 98 (455-cu.-in. engine, automatic transmission), 8.9 m.p.g.
Cadillac Eldorado (500-cu.-in. engine, automatic transmission), 8.1 m.p.g.
Ferrari 365 GTB (268-cu.-in. engine, manual transmission), 6.3 m.p.g., the worst figure for any car.
[JiF]rIot wrote:Although you seem to be a pretty credible source I cannot believe 28-35 mpg w/ a 440, my 360 gets 9 mpg
[JiF]Lonewolf wrote:I had an old boat a 68 Chrysler New Yorker with a 440 in it and I averaged 28 city 35 hwy with it. My dad had to get rid of his 74 New Yorker a few years ago and it had the 400 and got around the same as mine did and now he has a mid 90 something Dodge Neon and when he went on vacation last fall he averaged 48 hwy with it and his fairly new one or it was when he got it but its a 2004 that had 60,xxx miles on it they got 45 hwy with it last month when they went south. My step-mom drives it to work which is about 15 miles round trip and it has been averaging 39 I guess you could say city as she only drives about 5 miles total on the hwy.
I have a 04 Ford Explorer XLT with the V6 and when we go down to my moms by Cinncy we get 34 hwy and its a 4x4 auto. when I went to my moms last week I took my old 93 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited 4.0 in-line 6 I got 29 hwy and its all wheel drive.
I belong to a few old car clubs and right now most of the states are trying to pass laws that a car over 10 yrs old can't be plated. The gov is trying to force everyone into buying new cars to cut down on the pollution but what they don't tell you is that 98% of the classics and streetrods that have been redone get better emission ratings then the new cars. I know my 68 Camaro that I had put a custom built motor in that I done could pass the emissions control test easier then most new cars. Now I know I don't get the mileage out of my Camaro that the new cars do but I also didn't expect 750 hp to get 35-40 hwy, right now I'm probably getting about 700,000 city as I have the motor on the engine stand while I'm redoing my Camaro from the ground up.
What needs to be done is they need to go back and rethink all of their emissions crap they are putting on the new cars by scraping it and going back to the way things were in the 50's and 60's or even earlier and just use that old school tech to get the mileage and emissions control from back then. I'm also sure that if they needed help they could contact some of these old car clubs and see what a lot of them do to get the mileage and emissions control on them.