Sonofagun

Guy claiming to be a GM engineer, though not on the Corvette team, gives both EPA and real-world mileage.

http://www.fark.com/comments/7537795/81932974#c81932974

Kappa

That's probably like 20/32 in the old ratings, before someone mentions their C5/C6 had the same.

Suns_PSD

I know many don't care but literally burning money in the form of fuel is a personal pet peeve of mine. I spent $548 on fuel last month for my cars and another $150 in leaded race fuel for my MX bikes. I guess if you barely run any miles it won't make much difference. But I can't afford a Vette as a play car, it has to be my DD.

For my duty cycle, which involves at least 60 miles 5 days a week at 80mph, I think the 7 speed and other features of the C7 will offer me significant improvements in mpg over other comparable vehicles. And that's exciting to me.

Thud

In before "My C5 gets 38mpg"

slief

Wow. I can't imagine getting up to high 30's in MPG on a cruise from LA to Vegas. A trip I make often That would be pretty crazy though I don't think I could keep it in 4 cyl mode the whole way let alone drive under 75 MPH to get close. Still even low 30's would be a blessing and 19 or so in the city isn't horrible either. Acutally it's pertty impressive. I can average about 26-27MPG in my Z06 on a 290 mile vegas run from my home in So. Cal which makes me happy. This while averaging 80MPH. Add a few to several mile per gallon more and you are looking at upwards of 100 miles additional range to a tank. It starts looking much better when you look at it from that perspective, let alone fuel cost savings. In comparison, my 2007 Yukon XL 2500 averages right around 13MPG on a vegas trip running at 75MPH.

Suns_PSD

In my case if a comparable car to the C7, say a C6Z averages all around 22mpg, but instead I can average say 26mpg in a C7, that is an 18% savings in my fuel cost, or exactly $100 off last month's gasoline bill of $548. If I run the car for 6 years that equals a total fuel savings of $7,200!!! And even that assumes the average cost of fuel doesn't increase a dime over the next 6 years, which is highly unlikely.

Of course, a 100K mile Vette is going to have a lot of depreciation and there is no getting that back unless I just drive around in a cheap car for my commute, but what's the fun in that?

DebRedZR1

How about how many care about the Gas Mileage?

My C5 did get about 30MPH. I rarely check the GS/ZR. I know they are both under 20 and depend on my foot

drivestwin

I have been thinking that it will get 29mpg or higher.

This would be awesome feather in corvette's cap. Everyone thinks that you get terrible mileage if you drive a vette and are shocked when I tell them we normally get 30 on a long trip.

I think an advertising campaign with 30mpg would get some attention and maybe get more buyers on board.

VADanno

Gas mileage definitely matters. I started thinking about getting another V8 when my bro-in-law commented on the mileage he gets with his Mustang GT Vert. I'm driving a 4 cylinder turbo, and I will get better highway mileage and the same city mileage. I'd do better, but my DD came with AWD, 4.10 gears and has 300 HP (50 up from stock). I started thinking Corvette when I saw the 2012 closeout prices. Now I'm pretty set on a C7. We don't really need two cars that can hold everyone in the family, do we? Make mine green with tan seats!

Suns_PSD

At 65-70mpg on a road trip it should do that of course. Really for a slippery car running in 4 cylinder mode it should do 35mpg quite easily.

But I'm a realist when it comes to mpg. What I get every single tank is what the car actually gets. I don't care about bragging rights, I care about not sending more money to the Middle East oil barons.

My current car can easily get 32+mpg if I drive it cautiously and slow w/ no around town idling, but that actually only happens every few months. Every other tank I drive 80mph, get in a traffic jam daily, pitch it sideways a few times, and generally speed around quite a bit. That's my real world and it results in about 23mpg most tanks.

LS WON

Just depends on what you will this Corvette as weekend car or daily driver.

Suns_PSD

For sure if I was going to put a grand total of 9K miles on it over a period of 6 years I would not care one bit about mpg. But that is not my reality.

JoesC5

I don't worry about gas mileage on my C6 Z06, but it's not a daily driver. It is nice though, when I pull in the garage after a 3427 mile cruise, to realize that I averaged 27.4 MPG(hand calculated) for that trip. Best gas mileage was between Springfield, MO(home) and Niagara Falls(~1,000 miles), where I ran 99.9% on the Interstate at 75 MPH and averaged 29.2 MPG.

The grin on my face would have been just as wide if I had only averaged 20 MPG for the 3427 miles. The car is for driving, not for pinching pennies. A Prius is for that.