Fleet statistics

[moroza]

Bored one day and compiled some numbers on The Fleet (excluding a recent 96 Passat that runs but isn't quite operational):

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1993(ish) BMW 544it
1981 Toyota 4x4
1973 Ford P400

All of which are gasoline-powered 2-box bodies with round headlights, manual trans, manual seats, and rear-drive axles.

Fleet sums:
8 headlights, all of them round
18 cylinders
11.5 liters
490hp/675ft-lb (110/220, 80/120, 310/350)
12500# empty weight (5720, 3200, 3700)
5800# payload
66gal fuel capacity (plus one currently inop second tank of unknown capacity)
14 wheels excluding spares
6 brake disks, 9 brake drums (including 3 that are parking-brake-only)
8 seats, 6 full seatbelts + 2 lapbelts
11 doors (including 1 hatch and 2 sets of double doors/hatches)
15.3mpg (unweighted mean fuel economy), ~18-19mpg (weighted mean)

edit: trimmed

[ross1]

egads!

It would take me all day to figure all of that but here are the important specs of my current fleet
54 cylinders displacing 26.9 liters that are allegedly making 1,628 horsepower
Could be picking up another 7.5 liters and 360 hp today
EDIT: 62 cyls, 33 liters, 2074 hp

[moroza]

Unless you're rolling with a B50 bomber with a few 28-cylinder radials - where it'd take you all day just to count the timing gears - I think you have a bigger fleet... but I bet mine's older? Average year 1982 here, more or less. And they all run and drive.

I just noticed shortly after getting the van that all my cars have round headlights, and are rear-drive manuals. Dunno how much bigger the fleet can get without disrupting that pattern (shut up, Passat), but maybe I should skip ahead to the Triumph GT6 and keep the ball rolling

Can't tell if your avatar is a car part of some sort, or a drinking horn.

[ross1]

Unless you're rolling with a B50 bomber with a few 28-cylinder radials - where it'd take you all day just to count the timing gears - I think you have a bigger fleet... but I bet mine's older? Average year 1982 here, more or less. And they all run and drive.

I just noticed shortly after getting the van that all my cars have round headlights, and are rear-drive manuals. Dunno how much bigger the fleet can get without disrupting that pattern (shut up, Passat), but maybe I should skip ahead to the Triumph GT6 and keep the ball rolling

Can't tell if your avatar is a car part of some sort, or a drinking horn.

None of those corncobs in my fleet, I only wish. Once I had have an amazing few minutes of stick time behind a single 1340 Wasp.

Mine also all run and drive, some barely and some not for quite a while so perhaps not. My fleet is exactly a decade newer and sadly has a mere 12 round headlights(8 retractable), those cars are my most precious. If my weekend plans shake out as hoped the changes will reduce the average age by 4 years, reduce cylinder count by 4 also but with HP up 5. Oh, and another 4 round headlights.
I'm surprised the avatar isn't familiar, I had you pegged as old enough to remember these.

[mboor]

Very Nice. Here's a few cliff notes on my fleet (atv's snowmobiles and jetski's excluded)

1972 Olds Cutlass 455
1994 544i 5sp
1995 M3
1995 toyota tacoma 4x4
1996 M3
1988 Supra Sunsport 454 (not a Japanese car)

52 cylinders
27.6 liters 1660HP - will be adding another 300hp in the next week or two.
20 tires, 1 14" brass 3 blade prop.
2 carbs, 4 manual transmissions, 1 th350, and one velvet drive. no front wheel drive. ever.
mean vehicle age: 32.6 years old.
8 round headlights, 8 square headlight assemblies with 8 round headlights inside them.

A few months ago i reduced the fleet by 12 cylinders and 330hp.

[GRVT]

Current fleet:
4 round headlights,
6 cylinders
3.5L
208 alleged hp
terrible gas mileage
113k miles

two fleet members recently fell victim to craigslist
4 rectangles with dim candles
8 cylinders
4.0 L
~300 Horse
1 ko3
infinite rust
315k miles

[moroza]

I like numbers

There seem to be a lot of BMW owners with Toyota 4wd trucks. I know three personally offhead, probably more.

Current fleet:
4 round headlights,
6 cylinders
3.5L
208 alleged hp
terrible gas mileage
113k miles

two fleet members recently fell victim to craigslist
4 rectangles with dim candles
8 cylinders
4.0 L
~300 Horse
1 ko3
infinite rust
315k miles

My first car was a 535iM. I didn't keep records but remember numbers around 16 city and 22 highway, average use about 18, on 87 octane. An EAT chip woke it up, required 91, and slightly improved the mileage, maybe 0.5-1.5mpg. My 544iT gets at least that much on 91, despite 3% more weight, 6% worse aero, heavier wheels, 29% more displacement, 33% more cylinders, and 50% more power. It's at least as reliable, too. The M30 sounds and feels way better to me than the M62, with a lot more character, but it's pretty antiquated as a tool.