Crown Vic MPG

[Stretch]

I'm sure police cars spend alot more time idleing (and hard driving) than a vehicle under normal driving conditions - which will affect MPG - but how much do you guys get in your cars? No reason for this question other than blind curiosity.

[lprocter]

I don't know from experience what cruisers get, but I think I read somewhere they're estimated at about 10-12 mpg, due to idling a lot, and a lot of hard driving and accelerating, and, of course, continuous A/C usage.
I have a 97 Crown Vic and I get about 25-26 mpg on the highway (with A/C on), but then, I'm not an officer driving a police car.

[Super Six 5]

I think we get like 8 mpg in our explorers. Lots of stop and go driving.

[Stretch]

Thanks. Now I can go on, wondering about other useless info.

[valycop]

The average for our agency is about 14mpg. My issued 97' combined city/highway mileage is about 16mpg.

[phantasm]

The new impalas that we have have an estimated MPG device, and it's about 4-5 MPG, BUT this is NYC, and there's a lot of idling, and slow traffic.

[Ruprect]

Saturday night I drove 50 mi. on half a tank in a 1999 or 2000 Crown Vic with 116XXX mi.

I have no idea how many gallons the tank is

[phantasm]

approx 16g tank. so 8 gal = 50 miles = about 6 MPG.

All rough approximations of course.

[Ruprect]

approx 16g tank. so 8 gal = 50 miles = about 6 MPG.

All rough approximations of course.

6 MPG, thats impressive. I wonder how it would do if we didn't run code 3 as much or blast the A/C all night.

[APDSarge]

I'm in the same ballpark as the rest of the responses. Somewhere under 10mpg. If I go to court, I might average out the tank to 12mpg, because it is all highway driving for me to get there. But just in my city under 10mpg, sometimes less if I spend a long time at a scene with the car running.

[ChesCopPodz]

Today I ran 60 miles on exactly 3 gallons of gas. This was all highway driving with no idling. On a normal shift I will get about 120 miles on a half tank which is about 8 gallons so it's a bit lower in the city. This is with a 2001 with 76000 miles. Oddly enough it gets MUCH better gas mileage than my 2003 or 1999 did. It is almost as much as my 1997 got.

[Jay7376]

Since I don't pay for my fuel, I really do not care what the MPG is. I have never even thought about it before reading this thread.;)

[Stretch]

Since I don't pay for my fuel, I really do not care what the MPG is. I have never even thought about it before reading this thread.;)

I'm surprised you're the first person to say that.