Thread: FR-S/BRZ MPG
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Old 01-24-2012, 09:06 PM   #84
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Originally Posted by Spaceywilly View Post
MPG is pretty important to me. My WRX gets about 24mpg on my regular commute, sometimes as low as 19 if I have too much fun. If the BRZ gets, let's say 33mpg on the same commute, that's a 40% improvement (optimistically I think I could beat that, but we will have to see what the final EPA numbers are). That means I can save about $50-100/month in gas based on my rough back of the napkin calcuations (right now I am easily spending $300+ on gas most months, 40% of that is $120 in savings). So in theory I could justify a bulk of the payments on this car based on the money I'm saving on gas.
Yeah, me too. If the BRZ does get gas mileage around the Cruze Eco, for example, it will be saving me near $1k per year. That's HUGE for me and even bigger for my accountant(wife).
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