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Originally Posted by BGTV8
The best mod for city economy is to modify the driver and tame the right foot.
I have lifetime to date economy of 10.7 litres per 100 km (sorry to those in the US, but we are metric down here) and I regularly get 550 klics per tank with 8-10 litres remaining. Most of my daily drive is outer suburban - 15 klics, then 18 klics of freeway followed by 9 klics of CBD edge stop/start on main thru roads. I cover 42-43 km in an out each day and average ~11 l/100km. The car still gets a squirt to red-line in 2nd on freeway on-ramps to get up to merge speed
The main thing is to just stroke the car along and it rewards you with efficiency. I don;t baby it, but I also don;t hit the throttle to the floor constantly either
I'd have to find out the size of a US gallon to convert but I guess you guys can do that as well as me.
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I squirt in first too just because it's fun and I won't be in danger of getting a ticket on local roads compared to freeways/rural areas...
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Originally Posted by MacCool
I drive the car in a manner that pleases me. I don't pay any attention to my gas mileage. If that was important to me, I wouldn't be driving a 330 HP two-seat sports car.
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Sports car and efficiency... two words that should never be in the same sentence. It's a balance beam on one end performance on the other efficiency... you decide what you want then find what suits your hand (or foot or wallet)
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Originally Posted by Z4U2NV
Around town, this is exactly me. However, on long road trips, I love to maximize my mpg. Sometimes I compete to see if I can beat my personal best, lol.
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I had some decent mileage... went to Niagara and back with a bit of stop and go on the highway. moreso on the way back and I still managed less than half-tank used. Not bad if you ask me since I was being a bit spirited at times.