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I'd say get the Lincoln. Heck, at that price you can live with electrical gremlins. A quick trip to your local pick'n'pull yard should bring you all the switches you want. Run the dickens out of it for a year or two then you can sell to it a demo derby guy and get a few hundred back. Buy a ticket to the county fair, get some popcorn and watch 'er go.
We had this debate in the Town Car vs Fleetwood forum. 28mpg out of Town Car is only possible down hill with the wind at your back! I would say 26mpg max, 100% highway....
We had this debate in the Town Car vs Fleetwood forum. 28mpg out of Town Car is only possible down hill with the wind at your back! I would say 26mpg max, 100% highway....
I would like to know where people get these really high numbers from my 91 f250 5.0 with a 5-speed manual gets 10-11mpg city and 13-14mpg highway and my 05 GTO 6.0 6-speed gets 14-15 mpg city and 23-24 mpg highway due to the 6th gear overdrive
I would like to know where people get these really high numbers from my 91 f250 5.0 with a 5-speed manual gets 10-11mpg city and 13-14mpg highway and my 05 GTO 6.0 6-speed gets 14-15 mpg city and 23-24 mpg highway due to the 6th gear overdrive
I have gotten 25.5 mpg out of my Fleetwood on 90% highway. I made it from Kingston, TN to Camden, NJ on a single tank and then I ran out of gas lol on the side of the highway. And that was with a completely disfunctional EGR valve.
Those figures sound low to me.
17-25 would be more accurate.
My '95 Town Car has given me 17.8 to 24.3 mpg. And I know it could have reached the 25 mpg figure because my high number was with about 75%, not 100%, highway driving.
For a while, with 50/50 street/highway driving, my average was 21 mpg. More recently, with about 75% street driving, it is 19.1 mpg.
120k miles is not that high on a Town Car, especially if it's been maintained. And, with a newer air suspension, the most serious headache might be the oil usage/potential leak, but at the asking price, it's not a bad deal. I agree that mileage in the low 20s is about as good as it gets with the TC for the vast majority of drivers, though in hilly terrain it can dip to the teens. It's sort of like eBay mileage for vehicles, where it's a tad overstated, especially Mercedes diesels that on eBay get 30,40, or 50mpg, but when they were new got 21-23 mpg.
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Why did they change it, do you know? Was there an accident?
Did she say how her husband died by chance..? Just a thought.
These are air suspension air bags, not the ones that come out of steering wheels and dash on impact - at least that's what I think he's talking about.
Outside of the air suspension, these seem to be pretty trouble-free cars, if it burns a quart of oil every 3000 miles or so I'm inclined to say "who cares?" - I mean compare the cost of a couple quarts of oil to the gas you will burn in 3000 miles - the oil cost is lost in the "grass".
TS, it is somewhat of a "Grampa-mobile" though, not sure why you would want it. The fun to drive factor would not be all that high IMHO.
But for $1500 you can't go too far wrong. If you take good care of it, you can probably get most of your money back if you want to sell it.
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