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1994 Cadillac Deville, Gas Guzzlers of 1994, 10 Worst Gas Guzzlers of 1994

1994 Cadillac Deville

I’m not quite ready to accept the Nineties as the distant past, but maybe I need to. Consider that the first official White House website went live in 1994, and that Quentin Tarantino’s now-classic Pulp Fiction was released the same year. It’s getting hard to remember a world before internet connections and great Vincent Vega quotes. In auto-related news, trucks accounted for 40 percent of all light-duty-vehicle sales for the very first time.

And, speaking of light trucks, you might have expected SUVs to be among the least fuel efficient vehicles of 1994, and you’d be half right. Per Consumer Guide testing, as reported in Consumer Guide Auto Test 1994, there were four SUVs on the list of the thirstiest vehicles we evaluated that year. The remainder, save for the Chevrolet Camaro, were all luxury cars.

Presented here for your consideration and amusement are the 10 Worst Gas Guzzlers of 1994*, as tested by Consumer Guide. (The asterisk in the title indicates that this list is limited to vehicles actually tested by CG, thus explaining the absence of any Lamborghini or Unimog vehicles.) Spend any time with these thirsty rides? Tell us about it. The place to leave comments is down below.

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Chevrolet Camaro Z28: 13.2 mpg

1994 Chevrolet Camaro Z28

1994 Chevrolet Camaro Z28

Body style tested: 2-door hatchback coupe

Curb weight: 3373 pounds

Engine: 5.7-liter V8

Horsepower: 275

Transmission: 5-speed manual

EPA-estimated mpg (city/highway): 17/26

1994 Camaro specs

Honda Passport: 14.1 mpg

1994 Honda Passport

1994 Honda Passport

Body style tested: 4-door wagon

Curb weight: 3545 pounds

Engine: 3.2-liter V6

Horsepower: 175

Transmission: 4-speed automatic

EPA-estimated mpg (city/highway): 15/18

1994 Passport specs

Jaguar XJ6: 14.3 mpg

1994 Jaguar XJ6

1994 Jaguar XJ6

Body style tested: 4-door sedan

Curb weight: 4075 pounds

Engine: 4.0-liter inline six

Horsepower: 223

Transmission: 4-speed automatic

EPA-estimated mpg (city/highway): 17/24

1994 XJ6 specs

Lincoln Mark VIII: 14.9 mpg

1994 Lincoln Mark VIII

1994 Lincoln Mark VIII

Body style tested: 2-door coupe

Curb weight: 3768 pounds

Engine: 4.6-liter V8

Horsepower: 280

Transmission: 4-speed automatic

EPA-estimated mpg (city/highway): 18/25

1994 Mark VIII specs

Cadillac Eldorado Touring Coupe: 15.1 mpg

1994 Cadillac Eldorado

1994 Cadillac Eldorado

Body style tested: 2-door coupe

Curb weight: 3774 pounds

Engine: 4.6-liter V8

Horsepower: 295

Transmission: 4-speed automatic

EPA-estimated mpg (city/highway): 16/25

1994 Eldorado specs

Jeep Grand Cherokee: 15.2 mpg

1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee

1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Body style tested: 4-door wagon

Curb weight: 3674 pounds

Engine: 4.0-liter inline six

Horsepower: 190

Transmission: 4-speed automatic

EPA-estimated mpg (city/highway): 15/20

1994 Grand Cherokee specs

Cadillac Deville: 15.4 mpg

1994 Cadillac Deville

1994 Cadillac Deville

Body style tested: 4-door sedan

Curb weight: 3985 pounds

Engine: 4.6-liter V8

Horsepower: 270

Transmission: 4-speed automatic

EPA-estimated mpg (city/highway): 16/25

1994 Deville specs

BMW 540i: 15.7 mpg

1994 BMW 5-Series

1994 BMW 5-Series

Body style tested: 4-door sedan

Curb weight: 3804 pounds

Engine: 4.0-liter V8

Horsepower: 282

Transmission: 5-speed automatic

EPA-estimated mpg (city/highway): 16/23

1994 5-Series specs

Isuzu Trooper: 15.8 mpg

1994 Isuzu Trooper

1994 Isuzu Trooper

Body style tested: 4-door wagon

Curb weight: 4210 pounds

Engine: 3.2-liter V6

Horsepower: 190

Transmission: 4-speed automatic

EPA-estimated mpg (city/highway): 15/18

1994 Trooper specs

Ford Explorer: 16.1 mpg

1994 Ford Explorer

1994 Ford Explorer

Body style tested: 4-door wagon

Curb weight: 4053 pounds

Engine: 4.0-liter V6

Horsepower: 160

Transmission: 4-speed automatic

EPA-estimated mpg (city/highway): 15/20

1994 Explorer specs

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Gas Guzzlers of 1994 Gallery

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Written by: Tom Appel on January 11, 2021.

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1975 Mercury Grand Marquis

1975 Mercury Grand Marquis

If you were a computer nerd, 1975 was a big year for you. Featured on the cover of Popular Electronics magazine, the Altair 8800 made its commercial debut, heralded as the first “micro computer.”

Priced at $439, the 8800 was a relative bargain for home computing fans prepared to assemble their own unit.

But as the nation welcomed the Altair and the promise of increasingly accessible technology, we said goodbye to Chrysler’s Imperial brand–at least as a stand-alone make. The Imperial LeBarons were the heaviest and most expensive vehicles in the 1975 Chrysler Corporation lineup. Priced at $8844, the Imperial LeBaron 4-door sedan was also something of a bargain, at least among premium American sedans. For 1976, the most expensive sedan in the Chrysler portfolio would be the Chrysler New Yorker Brougham, which started at just $6737.

Here, we celebrate the priciest sedans of 1975, the last time an Imperial would make the list. Though the Imperial name would reappear twice in the future, it would return first only as a coupe (1981-1983, again as a stand-alone make) and later as a much less prestigious K-Car-derived topline Chrysler sedan (1990-1993).

Note that we only include the priciest model from each brand seen below–this to expand the list to cars other than Cadillac and Lincoln models.

10 Most-Expensive American Coupes of 1976

5 Most-Expensive American Sedans of 1975

Cadillac Fleetwood Seventy-Five Sedan: $14,231

1975 Cadillac Fleetwood Seventy-Five Sedan

1975 Cadillac Fleetwood Seventy-Five Sedan

Engine: 190-horsepower 500-cubic-inch V8

EPA Est. MPG (city/highway): 11/14

Curb weight (lbs.): 5720

Written by: Tom Appel on August 10, 2020.

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