yeah the lsj's can pull some wicked mpg's but I question 50

 

I get 30 avg, inst is about 35-42 highway and 24-30 town, and don't really go slow, keep it at speed limit and pull pretty good from a stop just to hear the exhaust note, I don't think I could drive anything with less power than the SS, I was looking at getting a colorado with the I-5 and 4wd so I can haul the bike to track days and keep the mileage down on the SS, but when I test drove it it felt soooo weak, I was very disappointed with the engine output, cause all the reviews made it out to be stronger

 

na i like my ss

 

ugh, I know the feeling. I just bought a ford escape 2.3L 4x4 and WOW that thing has zero *****. I dont think I could pass a buick being driven by a gray haired its not to bad though, I have a different driven mentality in it. I usually go the speed limit maybe 5-10 over and can pull 24-26mpg in it. not bad for a 4x4.

 

If they slow down and then put on the cruise control they could benefit too, and an entire line of cars could save gas and help the environment. Join in, don't get fussy!

 

There's a HUGE difference between AVERAGING 50mpg and cruising down the highway/backroad and HITTING 50mpg...I've hit 50+ before...but my average is nowhere near that...between my city and highway driving (about a 50/50 mix) I average right around 30 mpg.

 

I do to, speed limit I can't afford any more tickets , but I like having reserve power and some reaction to my foot on the pedal, and not having the bogged feeling when I push the gas, my minivan had more ***** than the colorado I drove, so I'm gonna keep my eyes out for a newer low mileage tacoma, I drove one when they first came out and had comparable power and felt better than the 95 sierra that I traded for the balt

 

I commute in a 2006 malibu with a 2.2 ecotec, I used to commute in a 2001 ford crown vic. The malibu gets 22 mpg and the crown vic got 25 mpg, oh and my cobalt ss/tc gets 30 mpg on the same commute. Oh and as far as people driving slower, if you drive under the speed limit you will hit the light cycles and have to stop at more red lights there for idle longer there for using more gas there for killing more trees.

 

Driving like i do i get about 24.

Babying it on mainly country/back roads and a little city i average 28-29

Cruise set at 75mph for 10 hours I got 32

 

Last fillup was about 10 Gallons (10.008)
And I drove somewheres 290 - 292 miles on it.
Do the math, thats 29mph
MOST of that was Cruise Controled 70mph on I-10

 

yeah 30 is fairly normal, but what about 50? thats redonkulous :P

 

People like that deserve to have their eardrums blown out by a supercharger.

And people get stuck behind them at red lights while they take their sweet ass time accelerating.

 

I don't think that is why
He was probably being a smart ass telling the guy to look behind him and see all the pissed of drivers doing 45 in a 55 behind him

 

50 mpg is crazy my LT 2.2 with the typhoon system has gotten me 36 mpg once! and 28 around town.

 

If you're running on stock tunes, those numbers are possible. But I know for a fact in my truck, once you tune/modify your fuel injector scale just the slightest, that reading you see on your dashboard becomes a useless number. Those MPG gauges work off calculations (at least on my jeep it does) from the injectors.....It is set up specifically for the tune they put in the car from the factory. Chevy may be the same way or may not. But if it is, those of you with 2.2 and 2.4 liters supercharged/turbocharged motors getting 40+mpg....I laugh at you

 

If hes ever "saving gas" in front of me in my cobalt i will be sure to hit my locomotive hornblasters horns on his ass @ 150 psi(152db)!!!!!

 

Some people dont care about saving a few MPG. I'd rather get where I need to go sooner/on time than save $1 a tank. And NO I wont leave my house earlier.

 

I have kept records by gas receipts for the last 5 years (I lost 2005 records cause the hard drive crashed). So the Gas/Mileage for my 2.2L 32.43 MPG for over 123,000 miles. I have done long trips down to SC where I have got 38 mpg on the tank which is roughly 500 miles on a tank. I don't race or drive way under the speed limit. I do 75-80 on the highway and 5 over the limit on back roads. So I honestly don't know how people are getting the mileage they claim.

 

I have 3400 miles on my 2009 XFE and the oil was changed at 1800 miles and replaced with Mobil 1 and installed lightweight wheels. I get 40.4 mpg driving between 58-64 mph.

 

hell ive hit 99.9 mpg.

but can only manage to average 23.3mpg

 

Don't see why so many people are haters on here. I average in the mid to high 30's and consistantly hit 50mpg in my ss/sc that is modded.

 

That's my record as well

 

Hitting 50 MPG is one thing. Averaging 50 MPG is another.

 

I always laught at the ideots who floor it at lights around here, the lights can be as close as 120ft apart, one is green the other red, I barely idle up then kill the motor, when it hits yellow the other way I bump start and buzz by the dumasses in the turn lane since they had to floor it and stop I can easily pass the lot as the guys that floor it seem to take 15 minutes to figure out the light changed.

Around here there are no laws regulating the lights unlike Chicago, so the light turns INSTANTLY if a car from the off the beaten path direction comes up.

That means normally if you do drive the speed limit or faster you will hit EVERY LIGHT RED EVERY TIME. I slide through them slow and never have to stop.

People don't seem to understand lights, they must figure if they ram all the stopped cars ahead of themselves hard enough they can keep going through the red light.

No lights are synchonized here, it really pisses me off but I have figured out how to live with it, sadly many other people seem to believe in burning as much gas as possible while at the same time driving the least distance.

If you time the lights you can actually get further than if you floor it and set there as you never have to stop, I've made it on yellow many times when I've blown by the row of ideots who floored the car so they could slam on the brakes.

Unless you are paying $1 a gallon its more like $4-10 per fillup you save (depending on how far you go before fillups) I usually fill up sometime after 500miles on a tank.

My average keeps growing but is around 45.5mpg at the moment, I would guess with a few more 52+mpg tanks it will slowly increase.

The motor definately takes its sweet time to wear in, my first real tank (a trip to the UP) was 42mpg and until I hit 1000miles I could not get better than 42mpg, usually high 30's in town, low 40's on the highway, sometime around 1500miles my FE started to jump up dramatically.

I also think the handicaps driving Autotragics are getting the shaft because you can't get anywhere near what I get with a stick driving an auto.

Good reason to only buy sticks I guess.

My goal is to break the 56mpg record held on ecomodder, sadly I don't think I can drive that slow that long to do it. I would rather get my motor tuned like the europeans do with a lean burn ratio at highway speeds AKA 16-17:1 so I could drive faster and still get better FE.

Ah well
Cheers
Ryan

 

well ill put it like this... even going to the strip and making atleast 8-10 run's i would STILL see an avg of ATLEAST 400 miles to a tank.. 12.5 gallon tank and a MIN. avg of 40 mpg... now take into count that i was easy on her in the days before track day but still NEVER had to put gas in before or after i was done.. the track was 80+ miles away and i could get to the track from home race and go home without hitting the gas light.. with less than half a tank cause i wanted to race light... the WORST MPG i got in my IRL was 367 to DEAD empty.. which is about 29.xx MPG and she took just a hare over 12 gallons... it's all about foot controll....