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Old 06-26-2007, 09:44 AM
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I'm curious to know what my fellow F-body owners are getting averaged miles per gallon-wise with their cars. I see between 20 and 24 MPG with the 'vertible.
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I drove down to portland a few weeks ago and got 31

driving back and forth to work I get about 24
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Nice! Another buddy of mine with a 2000 FRC said he got around that on the highway
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I do hardly any highway driving and I usually get 220-250 miles out of a full tank.
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I don't count Miles per Gallon....



Only Smiles per Mile
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With the TA I have been getting usually around 22 - 24mpg, consisting of about 50/50 hwy city.

I got a little over 28 with the tops off, AC on and cruise set at about 80mph with a few triple digit runs every now and than on a drive over to Yakima. Kind of curious to see what it does with some exhaust mods and intake mods.

M6 TA also.
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I was at around 240 miles per tank but I think it just improved slightly. My thrust angle was off and that may have been causing some power loss. I seemed to pick up a few miles.
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I averaged 10 mpg during the open road race avering 120 mph!
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Ya you know it's been 5 months since i drove my car... so i don't remember for sure but about 275 per tank.... 40%/60% highway/city
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20 mixed, 28-30 highway only. The mixed driving includes lots of lack of traction.
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when i drove home to texas i was averaging about 350-375 a tank all highway miles and one time i even hit 400
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Big thanks to everybody that replied. I'm doing some development on "fuel saver" programming and this information is helpful to benchmark my car against.
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Vince,

A couple years ago when I had the hot cam + bolt-on 5.7 in my car I was getting 24 mpg on the hwy & about 17 in town. With my blower + 6.6L I get about 15 in town, but haven't taken it anywhere for a long hwy cruise to check that. I think it gets around 18 tho. This is all with custom tunes.
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I have been able to hit about 26 MPG with the stuff I have done so far, which is in the range of "stock MPG" for some other cars, but mine is an A4, and maybe the convertible is a disadvantage due to the drag it creates at higher speeds (and the car is heavier). You should hear that thing flapping at the end of the drag strip. ;-)
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Always 20+ mpg freeway in my '00, thank you sixth-gear!
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23-25 if I keep the cruise on and my foot off the throttle.
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Oh yeah, I got 28mpg in my 6 speed manual Formula going from KS to FL
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24-27. M6, WS6, Cam, headers, LID, intake, exuast and 3.42s.
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I average about 24 ish which is down a couple since I had 3.73's installed.. The fun factor is worth every penny tho..
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18-20 MPG IF LUCKY.....I guess I 'BOOT' it more often than not lately...


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