first road trip - 2009 sedan
03-22-2010, 02:45 PM
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first road trip - 2009 sedan
Took my first longer road trip on Saturday. Quick trip up and back from San Jose to Sacramento for a school basketball game in the CIF Norcal finals (we lost 
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total 260 miles or so. 95% or more highway driving. Me and two teenage girls...
Anyway - the car was a pleasure to drive and the freeway manners are superb. I like the seats - not quite as good as the BMW's or Audi's I have owned or currently own, but pretty close. Overall a very good experience. And the kicker is I got 28mpg indicated for the trip with an average speed around 64 for the entire trip. That is quite impressive for a sports sedan with a 328hp engine!!
)total 260 miles or so. 95% or more highway driving. Me and two teenage girls...
Anyway - the car was a pleasure to drive and the freeway manners are superb. I like the seats - not quite as good as the BMW's or Audi's I have owned or currently own, but pretty close. Overall a very good experience. And the kicker is I got 28mpg indicated for the trip with an average speed around 64 for the entire trip. That is quite impressive for a sports sedan with a 328hp engine!!
03-22-2010, 05:37 PM
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Anyway - not sure how acurate the read-out is, but even if close that is pretty damn good highway mileage for a car with so much power!!
03-22-2010, 11:41 PM
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One observation - if you hold down the accelerate button on the cruise control, it will go to 90 and then stop accelerating.
03-23-2010, 04:06 PM
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purely city driving seems to return 18-19mpg for us. Which has not changed much from when it was new. Have 5K miles on it now, so not fully broken in but getting there.
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03-23-2010, 04:29 PM
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On my trip from DC to Boston, I average around 370 a tank on the highway doing 80 without cruise control. 09 G37xS 7AT Stock no mods. I've hit 400 once though I think that MAY be a fluke. I'm heading to Philly this weekend so I'll see how it fairs out!
03-23-2010, 07:19 PM
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03-23-2010, 11:40 PM
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Wow... getting 400 mi on a tank on highway would be nice. I use 93 Octane and gas prices are rising. I hope fuel consumption will improve with some miles, otherwise it's gonna be an expensive summer.
03-24-2010, 05:39 PM
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You can use 91 octane or higher. Some places like CA don't sell 93 octane.
I've averaged about 19 mpg over the last 2 tanks with mostly city driving. For me, I mostly use Shell V-power. For whatever reason, the G just seems to like Shell better.
I've averaged about 19 mpg over the last 2 tanks with mostly city driving. For me, I mostly use Shell V-power. For whatever reason, the G just seems to like Shell better.