yea, turbo's take more fuel to run when they're spooled up. It's usually not till higher RPM's though.(above 3.5k-4k on most cars)
I have an '04 Monte Carlo, but I lucked out and got the V6 that doesn't guzzle gas. 22-ish city/25 hwy.
I have an Xterra and it gets about 20 city and 24-26 depending on how the rpms are. Planning on getting a Festiva here once the bills are paid. 6 bucks a gallon is ******ed to drive to and from Boston 5 times a week.
1972 Monte Carlo gets about 14 mpg, soon that will go will up as I'm swapping the 350 turbo tranny 3 speed with a 200R4 tranny with over drive and switching from a 2:73 gear to a 3:31. 2005 Colorado crew cab gets around 22 on the highway and 19 in the city. I work from home everyday so I really don't drive all that much...my cars may get 2K miles on them a year if that.
I'm just going to put down every car that my parents and i have owned........ 1993 Chevy Caprice LTZ Around 21 MPG, Unless you like to use the horsepower a lot... Which I did. 1995 Buick Lesabre Around 29 MPG 1997 Chevy Tahoe LS Around 15-17 MPG. 2007 Pontiac Grand Prix GXP 303 HP FTMFW!!!!11!!!! Around 16 MPG 2008 Yukon XL Denali Around 8-9 MPG As you can see. i like to go fast and own the road.
Sym RV250 (scooter), 60+ MPG commuting speeds and 80+ MPG at normal, calm, around town speeds. And I didn't have to pay $20,000+ for a hybrid (actually paid less than $3000). Best decision I've made in a long time.
Man, folks trading up their old (and paid for) cars for new more fuel efficient cars are going to have to drive them a looooooong time to make up for cost of owning a new car instead of a paid for one with worse fuel economy.
they could always buy an older fuel-efficient car. At least those that are already driving tanks. At any rate, the way fuel costs are going it might not take so long for the trade-in to be worthwhile.
I'm not sure about the actual mpg, but my jetta TDI gets about 450 miles per tank in the city and about 750-800 miles on the highway. Last year I drove it 360 miles and it cost me $8.53 to fill up when I got to my destination. Not too bad. And she is a proud decepticon.
Not really. I've saved about $11,214.28 since I purchased my current vehicle over my prior vehicle. That's just estimated fuel savings alone (I keep a very detailed spreadsheet with every tank of gas, along with a record at Greenhybrid.com and with the EPA at fueleconomy.gov) and the spreadsheet does the math for me based on my real MPG from my prior vehicle and against a non-hybrid version of the Escape that I could have gotten. (I've saved just shy of $7,000 against a traditional Escape so far, by estimate.) That's without the savings due to far fewer oil changes and without factoring in of vehicle maintenance; part of the reason I got my new vehicle was that the month prior to selling it I had $300+ in repairs thanks to an EGR tube breaking and other problems. I've saved almost 50% of the vehicle cost in a little over 5 years just in the difference in fuel consumption. Also not factored into it in any way, shape, or form, is the income created by my second job as an auto writer that I got because of owning a Hybrid vehicle and knowing so much about them got me a job writing about them. Or the income created by travelling around the country giving presentations on "5 Easy and Safe Ways to Improve Fuel Economy", which I gave at a hybrid car show because there was an opening and they needed a speaker to fill an hour and they contacted me to ask, which then caused other shows to start asking me to come and give the presentation, taking off into it's own thing, or the income generated by being an alternative energy panelist at local alt energy expos as the panelist expert in alternative fueled vehicles. Or any of the cool other stuff that I get to do, the press about me that I've gotten, or the friends I've made because of it.
I now have to commute, so I got a motorcycle--kawasaki ninja 250. gets 65 mpg. my wife's car--2002 automatic subaru wrx wagon. 21 city, 27 highway. I modified it, and she hates the exhaust. now that I have to commute to work, it'll become mine and she's getting a prius.
For real? I have an 07 and get about 36. Mine is a manual though so I'm sure that makes a little difference. I always shift around 3k.
