I tend to post something about my car every thousand miles, mostly to keep track of utilization and whatnot. And, being as I passed another thousand mile milestone this morning, here is said post.
I bought the car with 20 miles on it on August 10th, 2022 – 317 days ago – so I’m averaging about 9.5 miles a day, or approximately 284 miles a month… Not a lot of miles, but that’s because I live 4 miles from work, generally only go in every other day, and don’t really go very far any other time I’m out.
Though I might put some miles on the car this weekend – if all things align…
Anyway, I get a lot of thumbs up, window leans, and walk-ups when I’m out and about with the car – so if you don’t like to be noticed this is the wrong car for you… And the question order when someone walks up is as follows:
- “Does it got a Hemi in it?” – Yes, yes it does.
- “Is it fast?” – It’s fast enough.
- “What kinda gas mileage it get?” – Honestly? I don’t really know.
To be fair, if you have to worry about gas mileage or gas prices this really isn’t the car for you. I know it holds 18.5 gallons of ‘the expensive stuff’ as it requires 91 octane or better, and uses about a quarter of a tank of that per week. So if I’m averaging 284 miles a month on 18.5 gallons we can extrapolate that it’s getting about 15 MPG… But that’s just an educated guess as I top the thing off every Saturday and don’t really sweat the details.
I also don’t really do any highway travel in the car either… I mean, the longest highway trip in the last month was the eight miles from the office to MicroCenter and back. I’m sure it’ll hit the roughly 400 miles per tank that US cars get on average if I did some highway travel, so I expect it gets about 25 MPG on the highway.
That’s still a far cry from the Nissan Kicks econobox commute-appliance I had before this – which got about 50 MPG on the highway… But the 300 is by far a nicer place to be with all of the leather and legroom and sound deadening and speakers and ride quality and performance and safety features and…
And I don’t have to roll the dice every time I merge with traffic – so there’s that too.
Listening to "Babe" by Styx