Terrible gas mpg?
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Terrible gas mpg?
My coupe has 4k miles now. I rarely drive it hard, just casual daily driving. I noticed bad mileage since I bought it so recently I reset the trip when I filled the tank and I got ~ 250mi from full to empty. Dash says 16.7MPG with 19MPH avg. Is this normal for everyone? I hope this will get better because I expected around 20mpg with local/highway mixed.
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I have 23mpg avg. I drive 70% on freeway......
usually I get 17-18 MPG avg on City drive....
I think I get good MPG on mine compare to my previous cars.......
and also I think 16.7 MPG with 19MPH avg is normal......
usually I get 17-18 MPG avg on City drive....
I think I get good MPG on mine compare to my previous cars.......
and also I think 16.7 MPG with 19MPH avg is normal......
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Sounds pretty normal to me for mixed driving. You may need to really try hard to brake lightly and barely tap on the gas when accelerating. It's tough with these cars to do that even if you think you're not driving hard.
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My coupe has 4k miles now. I rarely drive it hard, just casual daily driving. I noticed bad mileage since I bought it so recently I reset the trip when I filled the tank and I got ~ 250mi from full to empty. Dash says 16.7MPG with 19MPH avg. Is this normal for everyone? I hope this will get better because I expected around 20mpg with local/highway mixed.
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how in the world did you get 400mi per tank. The way im driving is like grandpa, like 20% throttle from stop and brake very lightly. I drive 65mph on highway and only 250mi per tank. what gives??
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These cars will coast for a ridiculously long time. Ive found a way to help out on my MPG is to let it coast out of gear as much as possible. That is, if it's possible at least.
On downhills and coming up to red lights/stop signs, kick that clutch pedal in and let 'er coast to a stop. If your driving an auto, I dunno man.
On downhills and coming up to red lights/stop signs, kick that clutch pedal in and let 'er coast to a stop. If your driving an auto, I dunno man.
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These cars will coast for a ridiculously long time. Ive found a way to help out on my MPG is to let it coast out of gear as much as possible. That is, if it's possible at least.
On downhills and coming up to red lights/stop signs, kick that clutch pedal in and let 'er coast to a stop. If your driving an auto, I dunno man.
On downhills and coming up to red lights/stop signs, kick that clutch pedal in and let 'er coast to a stop. If your driving an auto, I dunno man.
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The City MPG is low on our cars since the engines are V6's with a fairly large displacement. But our tranny saves us on the highway with the higher overdrive. 5AT do pretty well on Highway MPG, and the 7AT is even better getting 2-3 MPG better.
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Same same ^ I have the 6MT and do 80% highway, I average somewhere around 23mpg and can get over 400 miles to a tank, and by tank I don't even mean the warning light comes on. If I waited til true empty I could probably get close to 500 if I really wanted. Even last summer when I first got my G and was doing 100% city driving, and spirited city driving because it was new, I averaged 19mpg and could get well over 250 miles to a tank.