bad mpg in the s2k?
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Originally Posted by Ronin2k,Apr 30 2006, 06:49 PM
Gearing. If you both were in top gear at 60 and raced you would kill him.
for you guys talking about using certain oil type and certain gas type.. not gonna help, either
personally im getting 25.2mpg lifetime at 75% freeway with lots of topless action... beating EPA rating so i cant complain
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although the vette's may be rated at 18/28mpg, i highly doubt that many will see the city figure. Don't forget that vette's also have a "skip-shift" feature that forces a shift from 1st to 4th if you don't rev hard enough in the interest of fuel economy.
I'd bet money that that EPA city figure came with the use of the skip shift feature.
As a sidenote, I'm currently in the market for an S2k and test drove one that was up for sale by a guy who had two vettes previously - a C4 and a C5 Pace Car that was driven by Dave Hill. He claimed that he got around 14-15 mpg in the city but on the hwy he did indeed see as much as 30mpg.
I'd bet money that that EPA city figure came with the use of the skip shift feature.
As a sidenote, I'm currently in the market for an S2k and test drove one that was up for sale by a guy who had two vettes previously - a C4 and a C5 Pace Car that was driven by Dave Hill. He claimed that he got around 14-15 mpg in the city but on the hwy he did indeed see as much as 30mpg.
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I averaged 22mpg in my daily driving C5 vette, with the skip-shift disabled, not bad! That was not much highway, unless you count sitting standstill in rush hour on a highway.
Like others said, they are geared much taller than an S. At 75mph you are still doing less than 2000rpms.
YMMV, as they say.
Like others said, they are geared much taller than an S. At 75mph you are still doing less than 2000rpms.
YMMV, as they say.
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For the record, I don't think the RX8 gets anywhere near it's claimed mpg, I've heard many saying low teens. I'm doing low 20's in my S. If you're getting better, you're missing out!! How can you resist VTEC? Then again I do have a daily driver civic, which helps save gas during the more mundane driving duties.
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Originally Posted by JspecVtec,Apr 30 2006, 08:19 PM
How does a 06 z06 505hp vette get 16/26 mpg, the 400hp vette getting 18/26 and our s2k getting 20/26 and 20/25 wit a 2.0L I-4?....my uncle just got a vette and i was looking up info...man its hard to believe how good mpg the vette gets with that much hp and motor size! also the rx8 gets 18/24...haha man thats horrible
look at real world numbers, and you'll see we get way better gas mileage than the Z06. also, part of the reason they get the mileage they do is because of their utterly tall and useless 6th gear. in fact, it's so tall, they can't even accelerate with it. Top speed on a Z06 is obtained in 5th gear. when they shift to 6th the car actually slows down.
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Originally Posted by Spec_Ops2087,Apr 30 2006, 10:06 PM
a 505hp and probably 5xxtq monster I think would kill us eithor way
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Originally Posted by shotiable,Apr 30 2006, 11:42 PM
wow! synthetic oil gets you better fuel efficiency? i just mix premium shell gas and premium chevron gas... somehow it gets me an extra 3 mpg... i'll try that with synthetic oil... maybe i'll even get up to 30 mpg in my s2... >.<
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Originally Posted by smurf2k,May 1 2006, 01:53 AM
sorry. not going to happen. corvette will chew us up and spit us out and not floss afterwards.