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Old 05-22-2007 | 11:17 AM
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Default What's your best mpg, average driving

how many miles do you get from 1 tank of gas, I usually manage about 350 which I think is due to the high altitude of Colorado...you???
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i get 400 on the highway driving around 90 - 75mph and 200 city
Old 05-22-2007 | 12:02 PM
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I get about 20-21 mpg with a mix of hwy and city in our lovely state...
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19-20 in-city; ~24 highway or so.
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I know there was a thread on this already.
Old 05-22-2007 | 12:40 PM
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There was. I get about 250 miles to a tank in town, and over 500 on the highway.
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There was. I get about 250 miles to a tank in town, and over 500 on the highway.
over 500 how?? what is your speed?? 6-speed tranny???
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Originally Posted by reno808
over 500 how?? what is your speed?? 6-speed tranny???
At 20 in the city, that's 400 mi/tank.
At 24 on the highway, that's ~500 mi/tank.

It's called not speeding, and good throttle control
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I normally get 22-23mpg with mostly highway driving. 70-75mph in the morning and 20-40mph in the evening on the same highways

The best I did was over 500 miles averaging 31mpg with highway driving for the whole tank.
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31 mpg?! Quoi?! and w/ our monstrous 21 gallon tanks, you could've gone another 150 miles assuming 31 mpg.
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When my car was stock, my best tank was driving from Montana down into Salt Lake. I kept the speed at 70 mph the entire tank and got 33 mpg.

Now that my car has 350rwhp, I can watch the gas needle move under boost.

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don't care - it gets to E I fill it up.
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i get about 150 miles on a fill up.

i try to drive on boost as much as possible.
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I've actually gone over 600 odometer miles (though the odometer was off by about 10%). I get better mileage at about 85-90 mph than at 70-75.
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I usually get 25 mpg daily driving and have gotten up to 30 mpg on the highway.


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