A burning issue (not) - miles per gallon

[Phenom5.0]

I get around 16mpg generally. If I baby, and I mean baby it, I can possibly hover around 18-19. And that's not fun at all. Although I have 305s all the way around so a fair bit of rolling resistance I'll never overcome. And I'm in Florida and it's been in the mid 90s with the heat index over 100 easily consistently.

If I'm treating it like that I may as well buy an unfun commuter car. My 2012 optima got 22mpg on my same commute, at best. And usually it was around 19mpg. So not a huge difference gas wise, the requirement of premium is my main hit to my wallet.

So, 16mpg ish it is.

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[Ninjak]

Hate to admit it, but I have never looked. Sasha is not my daily, so I honestly do not care. In truth I am running e85 most of the time anyway, so my MPG will already start in the toilet and just go down from there.

 

[Wine dude]

WHo really cares? As long as there is enough fuel to accomplish your trip or access to fuel, didn’t buy it for fuel efficiency!
For fuel efficiency getting an Acura MDX hybrid still not the super greatest but may be better than my current daily driver getting 22.

 

[johnny1]

Agree with that. I had a 16 before I traded it for a 17 and neither one have I ever checked the gas mileage. This car is a high performance track car and even though I only drive it on the street I don't expect good gas mileage and don't care!

 

[datadatum]

IMHO, mileage should be tracked to confirm no changes in the health of the motor...

 

[rick81721]

I never keep track but assume should be somewhere on the display. Since I've never reset a trip it should have an average for the total ~ 6700 miles I have so far. Will check

 

[honeybadger]

 

[datadatum]

Nice! Track mileage!

 

[raiderjatt02]

On track, anywhere between 5.7 - 7.3 depending on the track. I tried REALLLY hard to get it down to 5.2 just for fun but couldn't do it.

On the road, I haven't reset my Trip 1 meter since the day I bought it with 2.6 miles on the clock. 11,500 miles later and it's showing an overall average of 13.1 mpg.

 

[rick81721]

I'm not pushing this thing hard enough - 15.6 mpg!

 

[datadatum]

Second fillup... 10.8 mpg calculated oldschool (miles since last fillup/gallons filled). All city driving.

 

[Cammer]

If you’re getting above 12 in city driving, you aren’t driving it correctly.

 

[Shoshin]

Passed 1000 miles now
This average is going to drop

 

[chedder]

At the track maybe 5mpg on the highway 21 to 24. Best on a trip was 23.8. I'm satisfied. Better than our F150 4 door or the new Raptor.

 

[YOLO]

I drive it like I stole it. If it's all red light to red light, I get about 10-11 mpg. If there is some freeway driving it jumps way up to 12-13. If I manage to stay out of it for a half a tank on a road trip of 20 miles or more, maybe 14.5-15. Staying out of it for me as compared to others is likely very different. LOL. For me that just means no 8,000 rpm pulls.

My Z06 gets 10MPG. 13 if I baby it.

Yet GM advertises about 27MPG.

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