Car: "BEEEEP" -Please Refuel appears on-screen
Mum: "Hmm, I should make it back home, I'm not filling this bugger up!"
Me: "Well, 6,500rpm in 3rd up a hill doing 8.5MPG 'ain't a great start"
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Car: "BEEEEP" -Please Refuel appears on-screen
Mum: "Hmm, I should make it back home, I'm not filling this bugger up!"
Me: "Well, 6,500rpm in 3rd up a hill doing 8.5MPG 'ain't a great start"
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Got 33.323mpg this tank (~7.05l/100km). Went to Dallas and back with about 50 miles of in-town driving and some stop-and-go in the Metroplex, cycled a/c on and off the whole way. Cruised at 60-65mph. Had a 200lb passenger and about 60lbs of luggage on the way home, too.
Probably means that cruising on the freeway with no a/c it gets about 35mpg (6.75l/100km)...not bad for a car that wasn't rated anywhere near that high!
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Furniture
Well...just calculated my MPG with about 15% highway and 85% city:
11.19 ****ING miles per gallon.
Now I realize I drive a truck with a big V8, but I think it's rated at 15/19, and the way I drive, I would be scared to see how you drive to get 15/19...
He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun
On the shore lay Montezuma
With his cocoa leaves and pearls
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It's all in how you drive. Ease up on the throttle a bit and you should see your numbers start to improve. I had a '92 Bronco that went from 8 to 13+mpg (in town, I might add) just by changing my driving style. My Dad's F150 SCrew 4.6 averaged 15 in town with an average driving style. I wouldn't be too worried.
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'06 Subaru Legacy (2.5T AWD Auto)
On-board computer records Avg. MPG. Last 3,500 miles got me 18.9 MPG or 12.4 L/100km.
The MPG meter shows high 20s and even low 30s when cruising on the highway. The best I netted on a road trip was about 24 MPG (9.8 L/100km), 90% freeway...
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For a 2-litre car that's just amazing. Of course doing 60mph explains it. I usually do 80-90mph in the motorway and this shows...Originally Posted by jcp123
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There's others getting better than I. One at a Focus board at which I post is claiming 37mpg or 6.35l/100km from his SVT (or ST170 over there), though I can't say just how truthful he is. From what I've heard, 34mpg is just on the high end of average for the SVT's. A lot of guys using the new Duratec 2.0l (which is the Mazda 2.3l with a shorter stroke) are routinely getting even better than that, returning 37-38mpg, one guy even claiming he got 40mpg (5.9l/100km) on the highway.For a 2-litre car that's just amazing. Of course doing 60mph explains it. I usually do 80-90mph in the motorway and this shows...
I think I have a true 35mpg in this car somewhere though.
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I get higher mileage with a 2.2 litre car, but you knowFor a 2-litre car that's just amazing. Of course doing 60mph explains it. I usually do 80-90mph in the motorway and this shows...
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Shhhhh, Albert doesn't like the 'd' word!!
Update- managed 54 miles for 5 litres of fuel. Nearly 87km on 5 litres of fuel, which makes it... 49mpg/5.74l/100km/41 US mpg
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I also just calculated my overall average since I bought the car...comes out to 26.812mpg or 8.77l/100km, apx. 25% freeway/motorway driving, the rest split between city and country roads on rolling hills...
Edit: yes, I'm postwhoring in this one...
Last edited by jcp123; 05-24-2007 at 11:46 PM.
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Approximately 79% of statistics are made up.
Furniture
Thats what I meant by "id be scared to see how they drive" I use like 5-10% throttle pressure and take maybe 5-10 seconds to accelerate to 30, i do drive with the windows down and subwoofers using a bunch of power though, would that cause the alternator to use up gas?
Makes me want a car
He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun
On the shore lay Montezuma
With his cocoa leaves and pearls
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Just got 28.79mpg (8.17l/100 km), all on our rolling hills and 50% in-town driving, 50% country road, no freeway use. That includes a couple of hard WOT passes, too...driving carefully and boosting my tire pressures are really helping out it looks like.
Taking a nearly 2000mi round-trip ride to Illinois and back next week, we'll see what kind of numbers I get. I'm hoping for 35 mpg (~6.75l/100 km) or better...
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Approximately 79% of statistics are made up.
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I think I'm the only person who tries to get bad mileage... It's like a contest to see how badly I can beat this ish out of a 2.0L. I can't seem to do any worse than about 24.5mpg, and that's with a bad cat, bad O2 sensor, dirty air filter, old plugs, wires, cap, rotor, an exhaust leak, and a random misfire.
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Patrick says:
dads is too long so it wont fit
so i took hers out
and put mine in
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Damn. My 2.0l will get 15 if you push it much, it's easy to only return 21 if you're not paying attention to your driving.
An it harm none, do as ye will
Approximately 79% of statistics are made up.
Rookie
I've got two cars at the moment.
1998 Camaro Z28 6 speed 5.7L V8 (Only Mod is Cat Back exhaust)
18 mpg City / 27 mpg Highway - I probably get around 20-22 if I'm doing 80+mph on the interstate.
1998 Cadillac Seville STS 4.6L DOHC V8- Stock
19 mpg City / 26 mpg Highway - Work and back is an even 19mpg. Highway speeds at 60-65 26 mpg is easy. I can cruise up to 90mph and still get an even 20mpg with no problem.
Both Cars get 93 Octane.
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