Worse MPG for All - Now everyone can be miserable...
01-11-2006 | 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by MazdaspeedFeras
6.5mpg at the dragon (i was also on tires 2% smaller than stock so really 6.37mpg)
9mpg in the winter on solely city driving (granted i warm the car up)
12mpg summertime city driving
first tank on the highway 17-18mpg
second tank on an extended trip 22-24.5mpg
my 8 is wierd.
9mpg in the winter on solely city driving (granted i warm the car up)
12mpg summertime city driving
first tank on the highway 17-18mpg
second tank on an extended trip 22-24.5mpg
my 8 is wierd.
Thank you. I feel better now.
See how great it is when other people are miserable?
01-11-2006 | 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by beefyjoe
Thank you. I feel better now.
See how great it is when other people are miserable?
See how great it is when other people are miserable?
01-11-2006 | 04:58 PM
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Yeah, but a Lotus is a sports car, a GTI is a sports car. they get great mileage.
I might be kicked off for bitching too much, but a 3000 lb car should return 20mpg in regular driving. I know everything about the Rotary engine and gas consumption...
The RX8 is suited to high rpm racing and not daily driving around.
It's a great engine, but it sucks when 90% of your driving is stop and go.
That said, I still think the CEOs are having fun at our expense. Rotten bastards.
I might be kicked off for bitching too much, but a 3000 lb car should return 20mpg in regular driving. I know everything about the Rotary engine and gas consumption...
The RX8 is suited to high rpm racing and not daily driving around.
It's a great engine, but it sucks when 90% of your driving is stop and go.
That said, I still think the CEOs are having fun at our expense. Rotten bastards.
01-11-2006 | 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Y&Y
No one eats Bald Eagle egg omlettes anymore?
Then I cut up the leftovers and serve them for lunch in a nice salad.
01-11-2006 | 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Aseras
every car I've ever owned I got better milage than the sticker..... the rx8 is the only one that's been right on the money.
my civic got 10 mpg higher than the sticker... i routinely got low 50's with it. sticker was 38/44 mpg.
my civic got 10 mpg higher than the sticker... i routinely got low 50's with it. sticker was 38/44 mpg.
01-11-2006 | 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by beefyjoe
In 20 years of driving I NEVER achived HIGHER milage than the sticker. 
You're doing something wrong with the math, or you only drive downhill.
You're doing something wrong with the math, or you only drive downhill.
Most of my accumulated mileage was in florida for my 120+ mile a day round trip commute. There are no hills, it's flat.
01-11-2006 | 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by beefyjoe
This thread is not for mileage bitching - I've done enough of that.
This is just vindication that the EPA are a bunch of liars and it's all a conspiracy by the government to make us think that we are getting good milage, all the while we have to spend more to line the pockets of the fat-cat oil executives, who spend it all on private jets to the cayman islands, where they hide thier profits in suitcases full of money in private banks, and then rent big luxury boats to go fishing for big game fish, and then go to town where they pick up strippers and pounds of blow, and then take helicopters to thier ski chalet in Austria, where they do the blow and eat endangered species for dinner, served by scantily-clad female french chefs, who moonlight as strippers, and then are entertained by Elvis while they laugh at us poor Americans getting 5mpg in our Ford Escorts....
Damn oil companies.
This is just vindication that the EPA are a bunch of liars and it's all a conspiracy by the government to make us think that we are getting good milage, all the while we have to spend more to line the pockets of the fat-cat oil executives, who spend it all on private jets to the cayman islands, where they hide thier profits in suitcases full of money in private banks, and then rent big luxury boats to go fishing for big game fish, and then go to town where they pick up strippers and pounds of blow, and then take helicopters to thier ski chalet in Austria, where they do the blow and eat endangered species for dinner, served by scantily-clad female french chefs, who moonlight as strippers, and then are entertained by Elvis while they laugh at us poor Americans getting 5mpg in our Ford Escorts....
Damn oil companies.
Has O'Reilly called you yet?
You're due an appearance.
Thanks for that fresh breath of expression...
01-11-2006 | 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by beefyjoe
I prefer fried Baby Bald Eagles for dinner.
Then I cut up the leftovers and serve them for lunch in a nice salad.
Then I cut up the leftovers and serve them for lunch in a nice salad.
01-12-2006 | 12:29 PM
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I usually get above the sticker as well. In summer I get 21-22 mpg in my 1989 Ranger, and it's a 4wd auto V6. I've hit 24 on a long trip in the 8, and average 22 normal driving. And no, I'm not driving like grandma. Tried that and it hurt my economy.
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