911- GT car. GT car goes places far away. Mileage is a huge consideration and a huge appeal of the 911. Porsche prides themselves on having their cars avoid the gas guzzler tax that hits almost all other high performance cars.

@ BAD.TAG, that is the ticket to high miles. On all of my cars I drive with cruise control on 95% of the time.

The torque of the engine is also very well matched to the rev range. My Acura constantly has to downshift when going up I17 on cruise, sometimes even to 3rd gear on very steep sections when doing 85MPH-90MPH. Porsche on the other hand, never breaks at a sweat. It sits right above 3k RPM at 90mph. Exquisite machine.

 

I think that you're doing it right. I get about 16-18 mpg on my '04 TTx50. About a million point two smiles/gallon on mine.

 

Wait. The gas pedal isn't a binary switch?

When she was daily driving it my wife could get 21-23mpg for a tank. If I drive nicely I get 15...

 

+100

 

29 to 31 mpg highway at 75 mph avg speed.

 

I'm getting over 22-25mpg highway with the LS1. Frequently hit 300 miles/tank with mostly highway driving.

 

I'm a hypermiler so I care. Just 'cause I want a really nice performance car doesn't mean I don't appreciate some good fuel economy. That's why the Tesla S is sought after, it gives great performance on ZERO gas.

 

^^^At zero cost???

 

24.9 mpg around town and 25.8 on long motorway runs for me

 

If you don't care about mpg, you're not driving it enough.

 

I also own a Cayenne turbo, so there's nothing a 996 can do to me fuel-wise to hurt my pocket any more!

 

You paid a lot of money for a high performance sports car, presumably because of the high performance part; that performance is worthless if you don't take advantage of it. If mpg is your priority, you bought the wrong car.

If you're getting more than 20mpg out of your 996, you're driving it all wrong.

 

Guys,

I know it is high performance. I know it is going to burn gas.....I only ask the question because I am getting so far below what Porsche says I should get in town....I just want to know if something is wrong with my car. I don't want be bathing the cylinder walls in unburned fuel.

If everyone else was getting 14-16 miles per gallon in town.....I would just accept the fact that Porsche, like most manufacturers, publishes numbers better than reality.

Ray

 

Still exploring the capabilities of my "new" car.

Fuel economy, while an aspect of performance, is not yet on my horizion. I get basically 4-5 days on a tank, given my GF's location about 30min. away on mostly highway. Otherwise, I just run errands and pick up my son from school. That would be high-stoplight-density type driving. I do live in a semi-rural area so I get a fair amount of high rev driving in.

But, mostly, as I've said before, I run in a lower gear to keep the revs around 3k.

Purely anecdotal but that's why I'm on a message board and not publishing technical manuals.

TC

 

sssssoooo true