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Originally Posted by smoo
Paint faded AU Falcon on a 300km daily commute. I’m the second owner coming up to 440,000km.
Returns 8.5-8.6l/100km although the last fill I did I tried 95 and got 8.2 litres. Might run it on 95 for a week to see if that fuel figure is consistent.
Paid $2k and spend another $1500 as preventative maintenance.
Not worth ‘upgrading’ to something nicer and more unreliable/higher maintenance. Plus, there’s not many aged cars out there I’d trust to do that many km a week with no dramas.
Took a bird out on a date in it last weekend and I heard no complaints. To my face anyway.
Only issue is the size of fuel tank - have to fill up every second day.
A 100 litre tank would be good.
Plenty of AUs and B series still around for cheap to offer years of relative trouble free motoring.
Unless I’m looking in the wrong places, there doesn’t seem to be that many VX - VY Commodores. A VX or VY V6 Berlina wagon would also be a good daily.
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I have to ask...did you get a second date?....then the AU is in the clear
