The Vette has the best MPG rating of any of the 4 cars that we own.
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Same here. 4 cars and the Vette gets the best economy. I've told a few people about my Vette and several of them commented right away about how terrible the fuel economy will be. 
I got 30.4 MPG average driving home from St. Paul last weekend! Where do people get these misconceptions?
I got 30.4 MPG average driving home from St. Paul last weekend! Where do people get these misconceptions?
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By now you've heard that revised CAFE standards require automakers to raise the average mileage of their car and truck fleets to 35 mpg by 2020.
Just hope the feds don't try to enforce post-sale gas mileage requirements some day!
Imagine some time in the future when you go in for an emissions test, your car sits on a dyno and they run a test to determine MPG. Let's say the fed new car requirement is 35 MPG and the mandated post-sale requirement is 18 MPG.
Will your modded 'Vette still pass?
s'noJob
Just hope the feds don't try to enforce post-sale gas mileage requirements some day!
Imagine some time in the future when you go in for an emissions test, your car sits on a dyno and they run a test to determine MPG. Let's say the fed new car requirement is 35 MPG and the mandated post-sale requirement is 18 MPG.
Will your modded 'Vette still pass?
s'noJob
Any new federal requirments would be for future manufacture, and not retroactive to previously manufactured cars. 
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By now you've heard that revised CAFE standards require automakers to raise the average mileage of their car and truck fleets to 35 mpg by 2020.
Just hope the feds don't try to enforce post-sale gas mileage requirements some day!
Imagine some time in the future when you go in for an emissions test, your car sits on a dyno and they run a test to determine MPG. Let's say the fed new car requirement is 35 MPG and the mandated post-sale requirement is 18 MPG.
Will your modded 'Vette still pass?
s'noJob
Just hope the feds don't try to enforce post-sale gas mileage requirements some day!
Imagine some time in the future when you go in for an emissions test, your car sits on a dyno and they run a test to determine MPG. Let's say the fed new car requirement is 35 MPG and the mandated post-sale requirement is 18 MPG.
Will your modded 'Vette still pass?
s'noJob
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With the few performance mods I have done, not a problem.
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