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Originally Posted by cobra
Go for it, I bought one good looking midnight blue 2014 loaded and love it but If you cannot afford the money to spend on premium gas, don't buy it If you'll shiver each time you fuel.
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I've found that premium gas with 10% ethanol reduces my mileage by 12-15%. I guess that when they mix in the ethanol, they mix in other 'filler' junk, as I was told by a friend who mixes and delivers gasohol. So 10% ethanol is usually only about 82% lower octane gas as pumped into your car. What a rip off! Now the corn growers and ethanol industry are lobbying HARD to replace 10% ethanol with 15% ethanol, even though the EPA says mixes of greater than 10% can damage small engines. The Z owners manual is pretty insistent about not using more that 10%. Interesting fact as related to me by a gas delivery man, I live in corn country, even the corn farms don't fill their bulk tanks with gasohol on the farm for their personal use.