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Tips for Saving Gas While Driving Your Corvette
by Bassem Girgis

Maxie2U

We bought the Corvette because it's a sport car with lots of power that we want to use. We didn't buy it to worry about gas mileage

George Washnak

I agree completely! If I really want to save gas, instead of driving the heck out of it, I'd leave it sitting in the garage for whomever buys it from my estate to enjoy.

Mjolitor 68

This needs to be sent to Prius forum

ddawson

Tips for saving gas in a 496 big block.

Don't drive it.

cmonkey713

The best method I have found is keep your foot out of it. The ultimate gas saving method is parking it in the garage and just look at it.

molecule

It is my economy car my truck has never cracked 20mpg

The boss

My ZR1 use less gas than my Grand Caravan

scottcolbath

Seriously, if I'm taking my Vette up to Vegas, or just driving to work, I'm not going to have my foot in it all the time. Hell, the car gets 29 MPG on the highway. I'll enjoy that. But when I need to pass some slowpoke, I'll surely get on it as well.

S.C.

soondg

As someone else mentioned, my Corvette is my economy car. It definitely gets better gas mileage than my wife's Ford Edge SUV, or my lifted Bronco. Even when I put my foot into it.

scottcolbath

I drove a Honda Civic from 2006 through 2014 which only got 33 MPG. The wife totaled it and I replaced it with my 99 FRC, which as I stated, gets 29 MPG. Why the hell did I not know this back in 2006? I would have picked up a used C5 then and enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than driving a POS Civic every day.

S.C.

soondg

We all have things in our past we'd rather forget, I have found it is better to put it behind me and move forward. We can never recapture those Lost Years, so, I just enjoy the day and look forward to the future. Enjoy your driving.

scottcolbath

Damn, I wish I could be that way. I worry about the past, present and future, all the time.

Seriously, I'm a worrier, and I always look back to remember mistakes I've made and try to not make them again. But I like your outlook, and I do try to not live in the past, but only take from it the lessons learned.

S.C.

soondg

I definitely subscribe 2 using the past to prevent making mistakes in the present or future, I just don't linger there. Except for some classic rock. I I have I have been guilty of putting on some good old music and zoning out with memories attached.

scottcolbath

I had Foghat Live cranked up to 11 this morning in the FRC on the way to work. Nothing wrong with some good ol' rock and roll.

S.C.

soondg

My wife works part-time on the weekends in banquets the place she works at has a house DJ. We have become friendly with him and his wife, so, he switched all his music onto a computer program and gave my wife all of his CDs for me. It has every genre from the twenties to current day. I sat in the car the other day for about 2 hours just listening to some of the music and watching my life pass before my eyes. A song came on, I remember what girl I dated, another song came on I remember if I was at the shore, at a party, whatever I was doing. The songs were bringing back a flood of memories, if my wife had brought my meals out to the car I probably would have stayed out there for a couple of days. You're right, there's nothing wrong with some good old rock and roll, or do wop, or Sinatra, just some good old music.

j14152

I like to "get on" my C7 from time to time, but it as more economical to drive (gas-wise) than my 6 cyl. SUV. Surprisingly, occasional hard acceleration doesn't use much extra gas.

Squeezing mileage from my C7 is almost like a game, when I want to play. There are a lot of ways to save gas, but slow and easy acceleration is not one of them. Higher combustion temperatures are more efficient, per the Carnot cycle, which describes the thermodynamics of an internal combustion engine. Keeping the engine rpm down and the torque on the high side saves gas. I found 1100-1300 rpm is most economical, when that's possible. If I want to bother, "pulse cruise," or accelerating at low engine rpm, then coasting, can save gas. Riding in a line of vehicles on the Interstate saves some gas. Every time you brake, the harder and longer you brake, that costs gas. Accelerating and coasting downhill and slowing uphill saves gas. Many other factors affect mileage - road surface, wind speed and direction, other nearby vehicles, rain, temperature, altitude, even humidity. Cruise control can save gas if one is a bit lazy, too. But like most of you think - who cares??

LS WON

LS WON

Maxie2U

If you’re concerned about saving gas buy a Tesla!