You must have missed the part where he said he was between 17 -19 years old at the time? How many 17 year old kids really drive for gas mileage? (I'm 57 and still don't drive for gas mileage.)

I never had a carb'ed 2.2, but the throttle body auto trans one I had was consistently in the 25-30 range, but I had my foot in it a lot. They were a bit underpowered by the standards we were used to at the time. We also got a very consistent 25-30 from our Turbo Lebaron GTs, (we had 4 of them, all went over 200,000 each) they had a lot more go, but again, we were not really concerned about fuel mileage.

The car we were most impressed with, as far as fuel mileage, was the 95 Intrepid (3.3 V6) that followed the last Lebaron, it was 30 mpg always, and it had power and room. We are pretty disappointed with the mileage we are getting from our turbo PT Cruiser, its in the 20-25 (on a good day). Gene