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Lol mate, good luck with the wife Blueprintme, the FG's do look nice and after reading some of the posts on here, I wish I had waited and saved a bit more but I'm impatient lol. My wife's put up with 5 years of "how nice does that car look" since I sold the ute lol. Good luck mate

Hi Blueprint Me, I can't remember the revs the stock XR6 used to sit on at 110km/h (it's been 5 yrs since I sold her), it was probably in the same range as your auto as you say, but my ZF sits under 2000pm. I think the utes used to weigh a tad more than the sedans (I could be wrong). I just remember driving her to work and back and having to fill up just short of a fortnight (around 60k's round trip from near Perth airport to just outside Fremantle and back). I used to do 1:2, 1 tank of 95 to 2 tanks of 91. It just annoyed me that the XR8 guys were getting the same results lol. Anyway, I couldn't be happier with the ZF huge difference, I'm just saving to get her tuned and hopefully that will giver her better economy as well as power.... only when needed lol. Cheers

I had a BA XR6 N/A 5sp ute made in Jan 2003 and averaged mid to high 13l/100k on mixed city and highway driving, from memory I got 550k's at the most per tank (85 ltr) driving conservatively. I was really annoyed at it when guys I knew who had XR8's got the same mileage. I've just bought an 06 BF MKII XR6T auto sedan with 35k on the clock and on my second tank average 12.6l/100k and it gets driven a little less conservatively lol. Go figure lol. ZF's are amazing