Don't believe Corvette owners lies about supposed fuel economy

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Phooey, age is just a state of mind anyhow. When was the last time you saw anyone drive on a public road system @ 140 in the US?

Just because you or I may have the skill & ability to drive our cars at their maximum capability, that doesn't mean the people we are forced to share the roads with are able to drive theirs at half of its. It isn't me driving my car to its limits, it is the knucklehead (not Motorcycle version) who changes lanes without signaling, or slams on his/her brakes for no apparent reason that is going to end up being the death of me on the road, not my obtainable speed.

Oui but of course. However, some feel compelled to drive car that others like for whatever reason. Perhaps peer pressure makes them drive those fart-pipe-mobiles.

But it isn't a "mass-produced" vehicle like the Corvette. It is more about exploring the limits & challenges of Technology for the mass production vehicles, then producing a vehicle for the masses.

Dollar for dollar & pound for pound the Base Corvettes will still give both the Performance & Styling that vehicles twice its price can only pretend to. To me it is truly a shame they never went ahead with the original concept of the Billy-Bob Corvette trimmed of all the current bells & whistles into just a lean-mean pure driving machine that doesn't need every electronic do-dad known to man.

It's been part of engineering degrees in UK since the early '80s. My final year dissertation in '82 was on renewable energy sources.

Trouble is that it's been at a premium cost and very few have been willing to pay for it. Now energy is expensive it's making sense economically.

Yesterday, haven't been out on the road today. Let me qualify that, I have a road about 1 1/2 miles from my home that has no houses, no drive ways, no trees, or blind spots, and you can see both ends as you leave the stop sign. A ready made drag strip with room to spare for shut down, temptation overcomes me many times. A sane 120 is easy, 140 you can begin to smell the brakes when you get out of the C6 in the garage. My skill is tempered a bit by being from the thirties so I do see this pratice as being short lived as are all of us mortal souls who's state of mind is also affected at some point.

Automotive people need humor to......

I fully understood it's position in the real world when I said, "Hopefully it can become a technology to benefit the automotive field." You can't even smell the diesel which is a need for the R8 technology to get resolved, how to make the super refined fuel.

Wouldn't that be a kick in the pants, a 2800 pound car with 638 HP that you had to drive instead of 1,000 pounds of widgets doing it for you?? Darn, me thinks I need the computer to make that engine purr.......................

Back to reality, I need to let the '64, (electronic options, radio), sit out in the sun so the back window will get soft enough to fold to put the top down today....... ;-))

But Weight is the Vee-Dub's big problem. With a curb weight of 5,300 pounds, the Touareg V8 is like packing the mass of a Chevy Suburban into a Volvo XC90-size wrapper. This poundage puts a dent in fuel economy and imparts a somewhat leaden feel to the on-road experience, particularly when the vehicle is driven with any amount of spirit. This is especially true of the 5,825-pound Touareg V10 TDI. Personally I'd rather go with the Heavy Chevy then the Chubby Dubbie, at least you get more space for your el`crapola at a significantly lower price.

'Cept in BMWs.

Vito

Corvette's gas mileage is impressive - when compared with it's performance stats, and it's competitor's

Oh please, that's nothing to brag about. The 2006 Honda Insight is rated @ 45 City and 48 Highway, but with proper driving it gets 121.7 MPG.

:>Oh please, that's nothing to brag about.

Again, no one is bragging. We are comparing what our Corvettes are getting for mileage.

:>The 2006 Honda Insight

Has nothing to do with our Corvettes.

:>Corvettes require $3.75 premium gas while other cars can use $3.53 gas

Corvettes do not REQUIRE premium gas, Lawrence. Don't you get tired of always being wrong and always trolling the wrong newsgroup, ie: aac?

:>so FUEL CENTS PER MILE is a far better way to judge economy. My car

What car is that Lawrence? You've been asked at least a dozen times and you'll never tell anyone what car you actually have.

I'm betting it's a cute little VW Beetle complete with bud vase.

Go away Lawrence. You're like a case of herpes. No one wants you but once you've shown up you're impossible to ever get rid of....

My '95 LT1, automatic trans gets 13-15 in the city, 20-22 mpg on the interstate running a steady 80 mph with the cruise control engaged. (20 mpg with the AC on, 22 mpg with the AC off.)

Pretty damned good for a 14 year old car with a stock 350 - it has almost

Well folks, this *IS* the truth. '98 roadster. On the highway w cruse set somewhere between 65 & 70 to FL and back to OH the 2,200 mile average was 30.21.

Sledge Hammer wrote:

I believe you. Most mid to large sized cars get about that on the highway if they have the correct gearing. It's in urban driving with stop lights where they fall far behind smaller engined vehicles.

Yup. It takes a lot of fuel to wear out brake pads.

-- pj

The Vette really surprises me in urban driving as well. Not 100% sure as I've never really followed it but I think I'm getting something like

Actually it the mass required to be accelerated and how quickly it's done that determines urban mileage. Since the piss-ant engines in the smaller engined vehicles aren't capable of accelerating anything quickly it's simply more difficult to get poor mileage, but the people who buy them typically haven't a clue about what goes on under the hood anyway.

I was under the impression a significant amount of gas is simply wasted while idling at traffic lights or in traffic jams. I forget where I read it, but something between 15 and 20% of fuel is used while sitting still. At four bucks for a gallon, that means 70 cents or so doesn't move you anywhere.

AJM '93 Ruby coupe, 6 sp (both tops)

My 98 6 sp ragtop is about to turn 25,000 total miles and I just checked what my gas mileage has averaged... TOTAL MPG from the very first Tank of Gas until today... is 24.6 mpg ...

I admit that the wife and I use this car mostly for trips but it sure gets plenty of around town usage...NO STOP AND GO CITY DRIVING for the most part...

This figure comes from my computerized maintenance log that I keep on all my cars...

Bob G.

Accurate impression!

One measure...reset the average mileage on the DIC while in traffic and note the numbers plummet while sitting at a light.

During a March trip I rented a Prius. Impressive at a light--the only energy goes to power the stereo and the displays.

It was a cool week so I've no clue as to what they do with the a/c at a light.

-- pj

'04 and later run off the battery, before that if it was set to Max the engine would run.

The Prius runs the AC off the battery.

I checked out the Malibu hybrid and noted that the mileage was not good compared to the Camry - now I know why. The Malibu hybrid has no electrical comp>>>