cruzdreamer

Hi! I have not been on the board in several months...wow...some changes here!
Anyway....I just got 18.5 mpg city. Better than last weeks 17.75mpg. I use 89 octane and started out very disappointed when I first got my 8....only got 12-13mpg and I have about 10,500 miles on it now. Noticed a change around 8000 miles or so. So hang in there if your mpg is not where it should be! I don't have to add oil very often either...I check every 700-1000 miles and it needs maybe a 1/4 of a quart. I do get a little heat from the engine on my legs at times and can make me pretty warm in the cabin. Odd it does not seem that way all the time! I am enjoying my car w/o looking at the gas guage! Great car!!!! undefined :D

NAVILESRX8

iTrader: (1)

cool..I got 20mpg on a roadtrip...300 miles with a patch of bad traffic....I only got 5000 miles so far...

stanfordcole

I just went on about a 250 mile trip. Driving about 200 miles of that on highway doing about 75 MPH and the reset mountain driving I got somewhere between 23-24 mpg. It has gotten better as I have put more mileage on it however. It was not that good in the beginning. I now have 7500 miles on mine.

Old Rotor

It gets better, new I got at best 23.5mpg. Now with 12K, I hve three times got 27.5mpg. The problem is finding a road I can set the cruz at 65 mph without getting run over or having the discipline to do it for 350+ miles...It's hard with such a fun car.

rxeightr

Cruz -
Glad to see you back with us! Nice to hear the mileage has picked up for you.

MTLbroker

Just completed a weekend jaunt to the cottage. Was coming back Sunday, so I stopped and filled the car with regular gas (89 octane rating). I've got about 5200kms on the car and just did an oil change.
Drove back about with 3 people and a small dog in the car with all the accompanying luggage. Did not really obey the speed limit - road speed varied from 0-160kms/h most of the time at around 120kms/h with the air conditioning running all the way and windows closed, sunroof closed.
MPG is not really a concern for me, but subjectively I would say that I am getting better fuel economy now than when new. I've got 300 kms on the same tank so far with a little over a quarter tank left and I've been in city/stop and go traffic since Monday. I'll post later the exact mileage on this tank, but if I extrapolate, I'll get a bit over 400-450 kms or a bit over 250-280 miles. Thats about 17-18 mpg. A trip computer would help here, but it just feels like I'm able to get more mileage out of a tank these days.

rex

iTrader: (2)

I never thought I'd be thrilled to get 20mpg, but I just managed that on a long 260 mile, mostly highway road trip. I was cruising at 80-85mph most of the time and wasn't trying to get good mileage, but it was a joy to beat my lifetime average of 17mpg!

northern-8

Just had my best tank of gas at just about 20 MPG and I've got about 2000 mi on the car.

This was based on 87 octane, 1/2 highway (65 to 90 mph), 1/2 city. Yup, I can feel the mileage increase as the car settles in.

Not that the bad mileage really ever bothered me. It just was weird that a 3000 lb sports car was getting worse mileage than my wife's Audi Allroad (2.7lL V-6 twin turbo, 4500 lb)

Pete

my gas has def improved. i'm at 19000km right now. At half a tank im pushing 165km. I also drive hard.