Gas Mileage

i average 20-23 mpg overall, city and highway

i get from 230 to 250 per tank, 280+ if all highway, i'm thinking higher since i've got the K&N now

i believe it's a 12 gallon tank, maybe 12.5

at fillup, i put in between 10.5-11.5 depending on how close i am to the light going off, and at 2.45 or so last night i paid 27 dollars to fill up

edit: and i can take an LT1 firebird, '94, from a dig all through 3rd gear, then he hits 3rd or 4th gear and is off (auto). best friends car so we've done it plenty...

Hmm....Thats pretty good. Do you do much highway driving? I'm trying to figure out how this car is on the highway, cruising at about 70-75mph for about 2 hours.

doing those speeds for that long will get that 280+ i'm willing to bet, i usually cruise 80+ on the freeway and pulled that much on one trip, with some 3rd gear passing in there

i do mostly city and rushhour driving, with about 1/4-1/3 highway on average

I get about 23.5 to 24.5 mpg with a mix of city and freeway driving. I've have 13k+ miles plus on it, so it is very consistent. I've taken a few road trips, a couple that were 10+ hours. When I was cruising at 95 mph for long periods of time I averaged 28 to 29 mpg. Not too shabby...

Tom

Gotcha. I gotta find a good commuter car, thats still fun to drive on a daily basis. In my new job I have to drive a lot and am considering a Redline, CobaltSS, and SRT4. The SRT4 seems to have a really small tank with no range, so I'm trying to figure out how the Redline and Cobalt stack up.

Tom01SC2 said:

I get about 23.5 to 24.5 mpg with a mix of city and freeway driving. I've have 13k+ miles plus on it, so it is very consistent. I've taken a few road trips, a couple that were 10+ hours. When I was cruising at 95 mph for long periods of time I averaged 28 to 29 mpg. Not too shabby...

Tom

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If you can answer this than I'd appreciate it, but its a weird question- If you took a road trip that was 2 hours long, on a full tank, cruising 75-80mph, how much gas would you use? I mean, would you have a half tank left over, 1/4 tank left over, 3/4's, etc. I don't know why, but I use this as a way to judge fuel efficiency in my cars, and for some reason I never pay attention to the miles I put on when driving home 2 hours from school.

bikeluver43 said:

If you can answer this than I'd appreciate it, but its a weird question- If you took a road trip that was 2 hours long, on a full tank, cruising 75-80mph, how much gas would you use? I mean, would you have a half tank left over, 1/4 tank left over, 3/4's, etc. I don't know why, but I use this as a way to judge fuel efficiency in my cars, and for some reason I never pay attention to the miles I put on when driving home 2 hours from school.

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going that speed, you're going to be approaching a half tank if it's smooth sailing at those speeds consistantly, maybe just passing the halfway mark

Thanks, that really helps out. I'll have to take one of these things for a test drive. My local dealership is literally giving them away-$15-16k. Plus I've got some GM bonus cash on my credit card of $1000 to go towards it.

well worth it, it's my daily driver, yet is great fun to drive when you feel like getting on it. and for what it can do, it gets amazing gas mileage, especially on trips when the blower is in vacuum

bikeluver43 said:

Thanks, that really helps out. I'll have to take one of these things for a test drive. My local dealership is literally giving them away-$15-16k. Plus I've got some GM bonus cash on my credit card of $1000 to go towards it.

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I really enjoy driving mine, it is a well put together car. Shifts smooth and has a nice short throw stock.

Whats the stock supercharger that it comes with? I wonder if you could throw the M112 from a Cobra on it? Or even one from a GTP, I would think they would help with the power!

Vita said:

i average 20-23 mpg overall, city and highway

i get from 230 to 250 per tank, 280+ if all highway, i'm thinking higher since i've got the K&N now

i believe it's a 12 gallon tank, maybe 12.5

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I am pretty much the exact same, I just paid 2.20 Sunday night for premium here in MD.

I average about 20 mpg - and i typically fill up at 10 gals.. (1/4) tank

and i drive almost all city, very rare for me to be anything other than stop and go....

Xau

i should also mention that when not cruising on the freeway, i'm usually beating the hell out of it, which doesn't seem to affect gas mileage much at all. i've tried to baby it to see what i'd get to a tank, but lord help me i cannot do such things

Pretty interesting. I'm assuming the intake and exhaust is fairly restrictive, so I would imagine with mods it would also increase mileage.

I get 25-26 mpg cruising at 80+/-5 mph, and 23.5-24.5 mpg cruising at 90+/-5 mph. The tank capacity is 13 gallons, the "low fuel" warning comes on when you are down to 1.5 gallons. I really don't track city driving... I get on it too much to even worry about city mileage.

At 80 mph, I can easily get 285-295 miles/tank; at 90 mph I get at least 265-270 miles. I do not like to run the tank too low, as the fuel in the tank helps cool the gas tank's fuel pump.

I thought our gas tanks were 13.5 gallons? Also I've gone 300+ miles numerous times on a tank. My one tank crusing 95 mph+ I had 340+ miles on it. That is with some spirited driving in between, like sprints up to 100 mph and a sprint to 135 mph across the Navajo reservation, lol...

Tom

bikeluver43 said:

Whats the stock supercharger that it comes with? I wonder if you could throw the M112 from a Cobra on it? Or even one from a GTP, I would think they would help with the power!

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come with the M62

Tom01SC2 said:

I thought our gas tanks were 13.5 gallons? Also I've gone 300+ miles numerous times on a tank. My one tank crusing 95 mph+ I had 340+ miles on it. That is with some spirited driving in between, like sprints up to 100 mph and a sprint to 135 mph across the Navajo reservation, lol...

Tom

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Tom,
I'm pretty sure it's 13.0 gallons... that's what I recall from reading the owner's manual, and that's what the Saturn.com site claims for the Redline's fuel capacity.

When you went that 340 miles on one tank, did your 'low fuel' warning come on? On those 300+ mile stretches, how much fuel did it take to refill? You may be getting significantly better mileage than most of us. At 25 mpg, 300 miles would take 12 gallons, leaving you with 1 gallon in the tank. If you used 12 gallons to go 340 miles, then you got 28.34 mpg!