MPG...Amazing???
Melting Slicks
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From: Las Vegas Nevada
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Originally Posted by falconfling
Are you using strictly highway mileage....those fun shifting at 3500 changes around town, getting to the freeway, cost you: they'll pull a 30+ mpg average down to the high teens. Try resetting just as you enter freeway on a long trip.
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From: The Beautiful Greater Bay Area California
Originally Posted by servohead
Sounds about right man, I average about 31-32 mpg on the highway. It's just how it is! Funny, when I plan a trip I think "humpph, I should take my vette to save money on gas..." Just makes owning a car like this a heavenly experience!
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From: Iowa
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You'd be surprised just how much a 'tailwind' will do for your fuel economy......and how much a headwind will destroy it.
In my recent trip to the West Coast and back (to Iowa), the vette averaged 33 mpg across the entire state of Wyoming.....tailwind.
But once I got into Nebraska, it could barely manage 27mpg.....headwind. Overall though, for the entire 4800 mile trip, the average was 29.2, including all the stops, crazy times when the vette would suddenly accelerate (all by itself) to over 100 mph and all the pokey buttin' through the many construction zones. And this was actual calculated figures...not totally reliant on what the computer said, (which btw was very close).
And that's with a stock motor, A4, with 2.73 gears, cruising at 78mph.
The only 'economy car' I know of that will do 0-60 in less than 5 seconds.
In my recent trip to the West Coast and back (to Iowa), the vette averaged 33 mpg across the entire state of Wyoming.....tailwind.
But once I got into Nebraska, it could barely manage 27mpg.....headwind. Overall though, for the entire 4800 mile trip, the average was 29.2, including all the stops, crazy times when the vette would suddenly accelerate (all by itself) to over 100 mph and all the pokey buttin' through the many construction zones. And this was actual calculated figures...not totally reliant on what the computer said, (which btw was very close).
And that's with a stock motor, A4, with 2.73 gears, cruising at 78mph.
The only 'economy car' I know of that will do 0-60 in less than 5 seconds.
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From: The line waiting to see Santa Claus stretched all the way back to Terre Haute, and I was at the end, Indiana
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My Mallett has a 3.70 rear and a 475 hp engine conversion, and is an automatic, and people think that I lie when I tell them that it gets nearly 27 mpg at 80 mph. Doing the conversion only cost me about 1 mpg on the highway and only about 3 mpg in town... It still gets better mpg than most cars on the road.
Drifting
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From: San Antonio TX
my DIC reads a little high 31mpg on average for highway, doing the math I come in around 29.5, but that was before the maggie, I looked at the ave after a day of play and it read 4mpg lol and the tires were gasping lol.
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From: Biloxi MS Theres something happenin' here, What it is ain't exactly clear.....
100 mile stretch of our weekend trip (Vicksburg, MS to Natchez, MS) on the Natchez Trace - 50-55mph the whole way
6th Gear
38.8 avg mpg
not too bad with two of us in the car and a weekend supply of luggage!
6th Gear
38.8 avg mpg
not too bad with two of us in the car and a weekend supply of luggage!
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I've gotten up to 33.5 mpg before. These cars do get incredible gas mileage.
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From: Sunny Melbourne FL
When I picked my 2000 C5 up in texas the return ride showed 33MPG on the cluster and calculated 31MPG.
On a side note with my 4.10 rear I get about 24-25mpg. IF you are brave enough tuck in behind an 18 wheeler and maintain about 40 feet fro his bumper I have had an average of 40mpg for a 30 mile stretch...
Flame away, but I get bored on the way home some days
On a side note with my 4.10 rear I get about 24-25mpg. IF you are brave enough
tuck in behind an 18 wheeler and maintain about 40 feet fro his bumper I have had an average of 40mpg for a 30 mile stretch...Flame away, but I get bored on the way home some days
