I've owned my 3.3 now for nearly 6 months and coming from a 3.2 Carrera it feels very thirsty on the juice. Reading the reports and even the owner's manual makes pretty depressing reading. Anyway, this weekend was the first time I calculated my miles per gallon (MPG).

Over a 200 mile trip today, mainly on motorway at about 70-80 mph although heavy traffic so lots of braking and acceleration, with a couple of short bursts at well over (following a new Aston Martin) with a bit of town driving thrown in for good measure, I averaged.......
wait for it........
18 MPG!

Seems pretty good to me.
What say you?

 

Sounds good to me

 

I say you weren't going fast enough!

 

"I say you weren't going fast enough!"


I agree, those other road users just get in the way!!

 

18 mpg is an impressive figure, thats the level of my 993 cab. with the turbo i have an average of max. 15 mpg, mostly down to 11-12 mpg.

ok, ok we have the "autobahn"...

fritz

 

why are you worried about MPG??? you have a turbo porsche. if your really worried about it then go buy a 1.8 ltr toyota.

 

thanks for your advice and i promise: if i´m really worried about mpg, i´ll go and buy a toyota 1.8.
by the way, the price of 1 ltr premium is today 1.40 euro. you pay abaout 1.30 aus-dollar, this corresponds to 77 eurocent.

fritz

 

Jet951,
Worried about MPG?
Of course we turbo drivers don't worry TOO much (or we'd have slower cars), but we'd rather ensure we are getting correct MPG and not wasting money. More money left to spend on repairs and mods...

And if you use your turbo as a near-daily driver as I do, petrol spend is a substantial part of the overall ownership experience!

 

i use mine as a daily driver as well. your right the petrol part does add up. at the moment premium here is 1.50 a ltr. i didnt realise you guys pay more for petrol. so who gets the cheapest petrol?

 

We pay even more in UK. Premium is £1.05 = euro 1.54, US$ 1.99, AUS$ 2.60
!!!!!

 

The way I look at MPG in regards to the Turbo is if you have to ask it may not be the right car for you. I was having my car serviced a while back and asked about a race prepped 83 911SC that they were working on. Owner had purchased it for $15K and then put $22K into the car to prepare it for the track. He then went on to say...."you can't put a price on playtime." On that note, get into the boost and enjoy your car!
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1994 911 3.6 Turbo black/black
1993 911 RSA - Sold
1986 911 Carrera - Sold

 

I think one would want to know the MPG of one's car compared to others as it is one of the indicators of state of tune or health of the engine. Or for that matter, MPG over time.

That's one of the reason's why I went EFI to extract maximum benefit (power) for given consumption. For the added 80 extra horses my car is consuming less than before mods. The torque pre-boost is also much stronger than my previous slightly modded 275bph 964 (stock 250bhp). Overall consumption is higher than the 964 but not by much (say plus 25%-30% depending on how I drive). Great feeling to know your motor's running efficiently

 

I saw this on Pistonheads, made me smile:

"Recently traded in my non-S 997 for a lovely 997 Carrera S.

The car is amazing and I love it to bits. I commute to work through London and use the car as an everyday drive otherwise. Mixed in have been quite a few longer weekend trips on motorways, etc. Driving style is 'rapid' but not especially brutal.

After two months I checked the mpg figure as provided by the on-board computer. 16.2mpg..!! Bloody hell...!!

I did notice that my 997C2S needs filling up more regularly than my non-S did but was a little shocked at this figure - I was expecting at 18-20mpg even with my mostly city driving... "

Our turbos are actually economical as well! Who'd have thought!!

 

My 600HP 964T based race car did 1.4 MPG during my last race.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showt...hreadid=300700

 

Made a typo on my conversion, it should be 2.4 MPG.

GB