I have only had my cobalt for a couple week and have just broken 1000 miles (first week i had it i couldn't drive it to my construction job, long story). I know they say 500 miles is the break in period but it take a bit longer for a total breaking in. I just got 32.7 mpg on this last tank of gas and that included 2 pretty hard runs up through the gears (about 55K up to about 80). Speed of a GT mustang and fuel economy of an import. This car truly is a beast.

 

hey man where in maryland you located? I live up in bel air

 

Well I live down in charles county but i commute up to columbia for work and i crash with friends up that way sometimes. So Im all around MD.

 

my car has twice the hp of my old cavi and the same MPG. I like it, oh but it takes premium, damn I knew i was forgetting something.

 

I love it cause I can go from here in central texas all the way to southern louisiana on a tank of gas. Its so nice

 

WOW, here lately I've been more gas-conscious and I'm getting around 31 in moderate city driving (lots of stop and go with a fair amount of steady idling) and I've gotten 40.4 with mild city/some highway driving. That's in an SS/SC. It's all in throttle/shift control. You don't even have to drive under the speed limit or be an ******* about it, I got mine with shifting low in the RPMs and not going above 60mph (speed limit varies between 35-55 where i drive, and I stay 5 over).

 

the magic number is 3k. If you can keep it under 3k rpms in each gear your in for a long gas tank

 

You know what's a cool thing to do when you're bored? Go on the highway. Hit about 70, put the car into nuetral, and then reset the mpg gauge. It goes nuts until you hit the gas again

 

yeah it told me one time that I was at 99.99 mpg then went to 10 the bounced around for a while it's funny

 

i started going from kempner to temple every day and my gas mileage is creeping up to 35.5 and i thrash it in traffic and speed just a bit. i can go from kempner to corpus christi and still have a 1/4 tank left at 298 miles to my brothers door from mine.

 

i dont understand how evry1 is gettin such better gas milage than me.. I have been babying the gas and shifting at low rpms so much and I cant get anything better than 22mpg or 23 at bestt if lucky

 

I can get over 40mpg all the way home from work on the highway doing 70. Get around 36 going 80 and anything over 90 falls into the 20's.
They're talking about highway milage.

 

Yea, the mpg- to-performance is awesome in this car for sure!

 

I was getting 46mpg with 101 unleaded race gas when I was on the freeway!!

 

mine didnt use to be hwy mileage but yeh i suppose if you live in the city itll be alot worse. i used to have an 8 mile drive to get to the city and with a 50/50 mix it was still getting 31.5

 

Thats funny, I rarely get have my car under 3k unless at idle and still got 27.2 city and 41.6 highway with 104 octane unleaded race gas!

 

Well, I have had my car for two months now, I have 1100 miles on it, SS/SC. Still says I am getting 23.4 MPG. I only take it on short trips to stores etc, so maybe that's why I have such low MPG? It hasn't changed much in the two months.

 

yup. my friends hate me. im getting 32 hwy and 28 city while driving agressively my honda friends are in disbelief

are either of you Maryland guys around Towson or Baltimore? i was just in Baltimore this morning (saturday). im vising someone who lives in York near the pa/md border. unfortunately i dont have my ss/sc with me. left it back in O-hi-o and drove the family van. (didnt wanna risk damaging the rims or paint on the shitty hwys)

 

ALL my driving is short distances, when my car is cold
i dont even get up to operating temp

 

i rarely have it under 3k as well but I only meant that for freeway driving. geting on the freeway I always have it higher than 3k. I average about 26-28 mpg city driving and about 34+ on the highway on normal pump fuel 91 octane of course