Increasing your MPGs?

spearfish25 · 05-08-2011, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by oleg

i just really wanted to know because i picked mine up last friday and i only have 200 miles on it right now. Ive been driving it a little hard but not too bad and my mpgs came out to be 16. I thought it was going to be around 19 or so.

True city driving (constant stop-go from stop sign to stop sign) will get you about 15-16 mpg. If you're solely on the highway, without a car directly in front of you, and doing about 70mph, you'll see about 22-24 mpg. The guys who get the higher numbers for city are actually driving along at a constant pace for a fair amount of time (it should be called 'sprawling suburbs' instead of 'city'). The 30+mpg numbers on the highway are either slightly downhill trips or readings people see when they're slipstreaming behind a semi-truck. The Z doesn't ever get a true 30mpg.

And the worst mpg I've seen is at the track with just 6 mpg.