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G'day MF,

Interestingly, my 1988 built current daily driver also has a 3L inline six in it, and gets very similar economy!

Much higher level of technology than the old EH though; it's a Mercedes 300CE coupe...

Ahh, back when Mercedes meant something. Must feel special -excuse pun haha.
I thought you were going to say an Aussie built Nissan Skyline when you mentioned 3.0 litre six.
I imagine more heft and an automatic transmission, plus much more power than the Holden contribute to no better economy.
My 8v B6 engined 89 Laser Ghia is lucky to do that well even with EFI. The manuals do much better apparently and the auto Lasers of that era were known to chew the juice I have read.

I was expecting VL haha

Pretty sure the R31's were still made at Centre Road Clayton, Victoria alongside the Pintara before Nissan pulled the pin on Australia.

Cheers,
BB.

Yer, it's surely an interesting beastie. Almost a 'collectable classic', so worth hanging on to. At some point I'll relegate it to 'backup car' status, on Historical Vehicle Permit [allows up to 90 days use per year in Vic], rather than full rego as it is now.

One thing about it, though; it does demand an owner with a fairly high end skill set, to carry out the maintenance/repairs and parts sourcing for the 'minor system' faults. That, or deepish pockets, and access to a really proficient independent Merc workshop.

Things like rubber/plastic parts that that have gone brittle and failed; electronics developing 'dry joints'; instrument repairs [odometer internal gear failure in this case; the clock wasn't running, but suddenly decided to come back to life one day!]; the list goes on...

The major stuff like the driveline is pretty bulletproof on this model [touches wood as he says this] - it has the 12V SOHC engine.
The early versions of the later 24V DOHC 3L I6 engine had a propensity for dropping valve guides, apparently.