26.5 mpg wtf

[RichardsFRS]

Originally Posted by Blue-Sensei

It's your cruising speed. 80+ is like 24-26mpg. 60-65 is about 34-40mpg. Personally I get about 36-38mpg cruising at ~65mph. Actually get about 1mpg more with the turbo, until you get on it and then it all melts away.

Yea well go 65mph in atl you will get killed lol. This is the same problem I had with my Mustang, I couldn't drive 55, 65, 75. When my wife drives it, she gets way better results and did so in the Stang as well.

But consider our freeways are 75mph in most places

Sighhhhhhh

Guess I'll accept the challenge of trying drive like granny, see what happens

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by RichardsFRS

What would cause this car to average 26.5.

How is this being measured?

[strat61caster]

I get about 23 mpg on my current commute.

I've gotten as high as 34 mpg on a tank (measured not damn dirty lying dashboard calculated mpg), and as low as the 10 mpg, all in the drive cycle.

[PandaSPUR]

Originally Posted by jawn

Hooray for driving in cities, amirite?

Hooray, yus, actually. Cant go as fast in the city, but seeing people stare at my car and scaring jaywalkers back on the sidewalk with a quick rev sure is fun.

Originally Posted by ajcarson11

At 80mph I come away with 32mpg with wide, heavy 18" 9.5w wheels and tires.

At 70 I average 35mpg, and can get 37mpg if I try hard.

Not sure how people manage low fuel economy on the highway.

80-100 MPH while staying above 5k RPM, thats how. My exhaust drones too freaking much between 3-4k RPM. It has trained me to drive like a loud ass.

[helloitsmee]

When you go over 75 mph your going to lose gas faster. Duh. Over 75 definetly not fuel efficient

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[RobertPaulson]

I've averaged 29.3 for the 40k miles i've driven my car. a mix of city, highway, auto-x. I will say, the driveway labs rear diffuser helped me get better highway mpg's over 70.

and my car is far from stock.

[MisterSheep]

I was normally getting roughly 30mpgs combined. After I changed my oil to 5w30 it dropped to an average of 27mpgs... I drive a lot of highway with some city as well.

[slyphen]

80mph freeway and u get 26+? and you are complaining? wtf? i'll be lucky if i get 25+ although most of my driving are city or spirited. look at my signature fuel data lol.

[Decay107]

No mods at time of picture BTW

[Rifle]

My build is below me. Average about 20mpg. But if you bought the car and worry about gas mileage, you bought the wrong car. I'm sure Toyota has a Prius available.

[Chee-Hu]

What caused the crappy MPG is your right foot

[Lynxis]

I drive 100% city driving and average 9.4l/100km or 25mpg.

[fumanchu1]

I get more smoke per mile than miles per gallons, being Sc'd I don't count but let's just say you guys with your 18-20 mpg in the high rev have it good, I start led footing and bye bye mpg's

[switchlanez]

This thread makes me feel normal when I used to question getting 28 mpg and friends got 31+. After mods I get 20-25 mpg and don't hang out at high RPMs.