"HoustonRunner" (houstonrunner)
08/16/2020 at 16:20 • Filed to: None
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Numbers from our two week trip to Colorado from Houston. I didn’t reset this trip odometer until we were about 40 or 50 miles into the trip, but pretty close. This is with a full load (wife and 4 kids), full back (to the ceiling) and four bikes on a hitch rack for there and back.
Overall not too bad. It was fun looking at the “Last 50 miles” mpg numbers coming out of Colorado - it was up in the 40s for a while! Gravity FTW!
Needs some serious svending this week, inside and out.
This was really our first road trip, we usually fly anyplace more than 4 hours. If this keeps up I will probably try to trade this out for a 4WD versio n of the same thing (2015 Suburban LTZ). There were a couple of places we didn’t go and might have if I had 4WD, nothing serious just traction limited. Overall the Suburban is a great road trip vehicle.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> HoustonRunner
08/16/2020 at 17:54 |
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I did some environmental work in the Sonoran desert. One of o ur support vehicles was a 4x4 Suburban. Nice machine. It handled the desert trails better than we expected. Unfortunately, the paint suffered from a lot of desert pinstriping. One of the field guys paid a local detailer to buff out the scratches before we returned the rentals. We never heard any complaints, so I guess it all worked out.
50ford500
> HoustonRunner
08/16/2020 at 18:55 |
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It’s nothing short of embarrassing that I can barely break 20 mpg highway in a Tacoma when a Burban can almost get there
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HoustonRunner
> 50ford500
08/16/2020 at 20:18 |
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Yeah, I know the classic Chevy guys don't like it for dependability, but that AFM (cylinder deactivation) really does work.