On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 06:12:41 -0400, Bill Putney >
wrote:

>Bill Putney wrote:
>
>> The '99-'04 M body cars would do better than that. I know my Concorde
>> would. It gets 26-28 on its daily 80 mile commute, 31-32 on non-stop
>> highway.
>
>In too much of a hurry. I meant '98 -'04 LH bodies (300M '98-'04). <snip>

True. Dad-in-law's '00 LH would get a reliable 30-32 on the highway,
but remember...this is a lighter, FWD car with a V6 and fuel
injection! The old M-body had a 318 and a 2 bbl carb! The V6, of
course, with it's more modern fuel and induction systems, would
actually produce more BHP than the 318s in the M-bodies. The later
Magnum incarnations of the LA engine would put them to shame, but they
only wound up in trucks.