I usually take it easy anyways just trying to keep fuel consumption down. I have found that 2,000 rpms is its sweet spot so I try to stick around there. .........
Agreed! I keep my RPM between 1500 and 2000 as much as I can. Less wear on the engine and better mileage.
You should trade them in before the first oil change to save money!
The day the warranty expires.
My 2000 Impala had 180K on it when it finally died. Not too bad for a recent GM car. Last GM car I'm likely to own for a long time, though...she was a repair queen. Ever suspected that your car had a crush on your mechanic?
What happened to the days that if you had 100K people avoided it like a plague?..lol
My '86 Mustang had about 240k on it when I finally sold it.
I can't remember exactly now, but the '98 C1500 had something like 190k on it when I traded it in.
The odometer on my BMW 320i stopped working at 118k and I estimate I've put nearly 20k on it since then.
My '79 Bronco had about 130k miles on it when I sold it. It puked oil for about 20k of that tho, lol...
The RX8 has something like 118k on it which is impressive for a Wankel
DUDE! That's 6K miles/year .... you need to get out more. lolI'm working my way there. Gramps gave me my first pickup, a 1996 F-150 5.0L V8 when it had 117k miles in November 2008. It now has 145k miles.
Apex seals are a bitch.
And Wankels are not really rotaries.
Nor is the RX8 engine a 1.3 liter engine, even if Mazda managed to fool the government into thinking it is. They only measured displacement off one face of each rotor. With three faces to each rotor, the actual displacement is 3.9 liters, which means it gets pretty weak specific output.
Agreed! I keep my RPM between 1500 and 2000 as much as I can. Less wear on the engine and better mileage.
Me too....