Round trip from WVA to West Palm Beach, FL. ~1,300 miles each way... wasn't bad at all.

 

Tulsa Ok to Kansas City KS --- 500 miles, acquiring my hardtop

 

The car isn't the problem, boring stretches of interstate are.



I did 1,244 this past weekend, longest I've gone in a short span.

 

Within the 1st month or so 2700ish miles in 2 days from Dallas to Chesapeake and back. The trip there was straight through 16 hours & thoroughly enjoyable. The return trip took exactly 24 hours, made me hate deer with a passion, vow never to return to VA/NC/TN ever again during the fall, and was my 1st experience sleeping in the S.

Have taken many subsequent 8-10 hour(round trip) "day trips" to OK, LA and throughout TX. Love road tripping in this car.

Planned a 2 week-long Dallas-NM-NV-CA-OR-WA(Seattle)-Vancouver-Vancouver Island-Tolfino & back trip that fell completely apart this past Dec/Jan, but I'm looking forward to doing it the end of this year.

My fuel mileage varies, but I generally try to plan my stops around the 400 mile mark.

 

I don't know how you can get 400 miles out of one tank. I'm on no bars left on my inaccurate gauge right around 250 miles.

My longest trip so far is Phoenix, AZ to Santa Barbara, CA, broken up with night in LA.

 

The most I've gotten out of an S on the highway is about 300+ from a tank. You'd have to be doing 55 on the highway to hope to reach anywhere near 400 on a tank of gas and I still think you'd run out well short.

 

I don't know if this was the longest trip I've ever taken in my S (I can't recall if I traveled more miles on my trip to Sedona/Grand Canyon several years ago, although I don't think so), but I recently took the S from LA up to Hood River, Oregon, for S2K Days. Spent four days up there doing driving trips in the area, then off west to Tillamook and down the coast over the next several days back to LA. 3101 miles total spanning 12 days. The worst mpg I got was 24.7 and the best was an amazing 29.5! Now I know that means I was driving conservatively even on the more spirited bits because I definitely have gotten way crappier mileage on some of the Malibu Canyon drives we do here in LA, but I rarely have a passenger for those and since I wanted my passenger to feel comfortable too on this journey, I took it easy.

Also, I never risked trying to go more than 330 miles on a single tank. The low fuel light was on even at that point and I was getting nervous. But the car took 11.7 gallons, so who knows? Maybe I could have gone another 30 miles just fine. Or maybe not. I didn't really want to find out. Risk versus reward kind of thing.

Oh, and I found the car perfectly comfortable. No complaints. In fact, it made me truly appreciate everything this car can do. Now, I'm only 5'4" tall so maybe you can say, "how uncomfortable could it really be for someone your size?" Okay. But my passenger was 6'5" tall. He never complained. Not a peep! Admittedly, he didn't want to do a lot of jumping in and out of the car a whole bunch, and he liked it *best* with the top down, but he said the car was perfectly comfortable, even top up.

 

Dallas to Scottsdale. Scottsdale up to Flagstaff, then back to Dallas...all by myself. took the gopro and recorded some of the drive. the drive from flagstaff to sedona was pretty epic.

 

On labour day this year some friends and I did the duffey lake loop in British Columbia (700km, 435 miles). Abbotsford to hope, cashe creek, lilloet, pemberton, whistler, Vancouver and back to abbotsford.

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I definitely didn't get 400 miles per tank on my trip to & from VA, but there were a ton of factors (mountains, excessive speed, deer) that were mitigating factors, so I definitely don't use that trip as an example.

What I will use are my frequent trips to Tulsa and New Iberia. I always increase my tire pressures to the upper 40's, typically drive at night or early morning when there is little to no traffic, and almost always top up and windows up with the fresh air blower on. I top off my tank and throw a bottle of Lucas in there, and travel alone with no luggage or spare (fix a flat and AAA are my best friends). I can make it from Rowlett to Tulsa and back down to Durant every single time, doing 75/80 except through the handful of wonderful towns in OK that force you to slow to a crawl(35/40). If I keep my head about me on the Indian Nation toll road and my foot out of the gas(which with it's long straights, mild sweepers and light enforcement makes it a difficult challenge - though the fact that one of my former Eclipses tried to kill me on this road and I got stranded in the prison town of McAlester for 2 days because AAA throught the shop was open on the weekend helps significantly) then I have no issues. (Also I really can't hate on McAlester... wonderful wonderful people, and I did pick up my S there)

As far as going South - Rowlett to just outside of New Iberia in one tank. Never made it into New Iberia proper on that tank, but I would probably run out of gas.

Between the two, I have probably made around a dozen trips which partially accounts for the 30,xxx miles I have put on my S in a single year of ownership(thank goodness it was a low mileage vehicle when I picked it up. LOL)

Yes, the gas light is on. Yes, all of the lights have disappeared from the fuel gauge. No, I have never run out of gas. Yes, I have had 1 really close call - Carrollton to McAlester to Plano, top down - the gas station I picked was not yet fully constructed and I had to baby the S down the service road praying I would make it - which thankfullly I did. That trip also let me know that you don't actually run out of gas when the lights disappear