Good MPG in a GT

[phrenetiK]

i'd challenge everyone bragging here to post their lifetime mpg with the car.

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[Asharus]

agreed, that's really the only MPG that matters, not those 10 minute coasts down the highway.

here's mine from about 2000 miles ago

 

[BmacIL]

i'd challenge everyone bragging here to post their lifetime mpg with the car.

23.9 mpg, just below 8000 miles. I've had one or two tanks that were >60% city, and those were around 19 mpg. This car really is a very efficient cruiser for its size and displacement, but stop and go of any kind will drop the average hard.

 

[phrenetiK]

23.9 mpg, just below 8000 miles. I've had one or two tanks that were >60% city, and those were around 19 mpg. This car really is a very efficient cruiser for its size and displacement, but stop and go of any kind will drop the average hard.

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[BmacIL]

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I'll get one later today when I get in the car.

Edit - pic attached.

 

[Shibby]

Stop and go city commuting leaves me at a 13 mpg average after almost 600 miles in the GT PP, filling up with 93 octane.

 

[Herr_Poopschitz]

Anyone w/ a centrifugal take a road trip...steady 70-80 mph for hours? Wondering what mpgs are attainable...

 

[ATLalien]

Anybody ever bother to manually check the mpg the old fashioned way? You may be surprised at what you find. The computer is almost always a bit optimistic. I've tracked my mpg in my GT over 4 tanks and The computer is always higher. Seeing variances between as little as .3 all the way to a whole 4mpg difference. Most of them were 1-3mpg off per tank of gas.

My Normal commute is mostly city, so I usually land in the 15-17 mpg range. That's with heavy A/C and seat cooler usage though.

 

[Shibby]

Anybody ever bother to manually check the mpg the old fashioned way? You may be surprised at what you find. The computer is almost always a bit optimistic. I've tracked my mpg in my GT over 4 tanks and The computer is always higher. Seeing variances between as little as .3 all the way to a whole 4mpg difference. Most of them were 1-3mpg off per tank of gas.

My Normal commute is mostly city, so I usually land in the 15-17 mpg range. That's with heavy A/C and seat cooler usage though.

I've started writing down my total mileage on gas receipts. For me the computer is a few tenths of an MPG lower than the math gives me.

 

[phrenetiK]

Anybody ever bother to manually check the mpg the old fashioned way? You may be surprised at what you find. The computer is almost always a bit optimistic. I've tracked my mpg in my GT over 4 tanks and The computer is always higher. Seeing variances between as little as .3 all the way to a whole 4mpg difference. Most of them were 1-3mpg off per tank of gas.

My Normal commute is mostly city, so I usually land in the 15-17 mpg range. That's with heavy A/C and seat cooler usage though.

mine always reads low from what fuelly says. about 1 mpg low.

 

[GoBlues38]

ha. My OCD makes me reset trip 1 and trip 2 every tank.

Unless I am on a long road trip, then trip 1 is the current tank, trip 2 is the trip.

Lifetime MPG would be nice.

 

[kz]

Anybody ever bother to manually check the mpg the old fashioned way? You may be surprised at what you find. The computer is almost always a bit optimistic. .

No - I don't really care (which is why bought GT), but it's fun to report what computer says and troll the EB guys who obviously are butthurt about it ;-)

 

[Katastrophe]

If you guys want a real easy (and consistent) way to track MPG's, just use Fuelly.

 

[NapaStang!]

Lol!!

 

[phrenetiK]

^ there we go....mine was about the same the first 2-3k miles...was driving her hard XD

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