Should I buy a beater or go ahead and get what I want now?

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10-07-2013 | 12:43 PM

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SparkyJJO

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Originally Posted by JohnS Z28

Im sorry to break it to you, but a 3.8 firebird is going to get about 18 MPG in town, compared to a 5.7...which gets 17

Depends on how you drive it. I had to drive my old 98 V6 like I stole it to get it down to 18-19. I normally got low-mid 20s in town. I also got 32mpg highway out of it consistently. It was a freak mpg-wise.

My current one, yeah, it gets below that... modding seems to have that effect