Good post. Personally, I prefer the shorter gearing for the Z as it's a mountain/twisties kind of car more so vs the other two. So giving up a few mpg's on the highway has never been a concern for me.

Wait a minute, I live on a frickin island.....what's a highway?? :icon17:

The point of this thread wasn't to worry about MPG..

I had an 04' S4 that only got around 16 MPG combined, and I loved every second of it.

I was just making an interesting observation how certain V8 cars manage to get the same if not better MPG than the Z. Simple as that.

I think you don't know us very well if you did not fully expect this thread to wander off into the hinterlands of non-sequitors and random observations.

You'll learn over time.

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Yeah I guess I should have figured anything to do with MPG is a dangerous topic..

As long as I didn't have to pay a 1500 gasoline consumption tax (as I saw on a GTO sticker back around 04-05), I'm good!

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I just want to throw out there that when I had my Jeep Grand Cherokee it got better gas milage than its I6 twins on the highway. I attribute this to the V8 pulling the weight better on the highway. The thing is though at those times I was being very easy on the gas. It didn't take much of a lead foot to kill those numbers where as the I6 engines were pretty steady on their mpgs. Off road the I6 did a ton better. When I hear the Vette guys and stang guys talking about how good their milage is I am sure they are babing their cars to get that. Around town they suck gas. If they drive like me good luck seeing good milage in any situation.

If you want MPGs buy a Piruis. If you want a beautiful car, fun to drive car buy a Z.

I get 10...

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What up

Dude, the explanation is simple - compare apples with apples.

My Z34 6MT has life to date average fuel consumption of 10.7 litres per 100km, having covered 110,000 klms since May-2009

My "other" car, a Ford Falcon utility, running a 5.4-litre quad-cam engine with 6AT has life to date average fuel consumption of 17.8 litres/100km, having covered 120,000 klms since Dec 2007. The "ute" serves on weekend driving around duty as well as tow-beast for race car, so consumption will be increased because of tow-beast duty by (maybe) 10-15% given the amounting of towing I have done.

This is an accurate real-world comparison over two vehicles, both of which have covered over 100,000 klics.

Omg, litres. I'm americsn i dont understand that chit

So sad .... I too remember the days of miles and gallons, but they were real gallons, not those small things that pass for gallons in the US !!!!

Not 3.75 litres hahah!