[s-cars] Extremely Good Gas Mileage

[Elijahallen92 at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/4/2004 1:13:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
waves at comcast.net writes:


> I find it very hard to believe these cars get anything close to 30mpg,
> chipped or not. My 1994 S4, chipped only gets high teens at best, during
> winter, slighter higher in summer and i have a fairly light foot on
> acceleration. One factor no one has thrown in was how accurate your speedo
> is. My MPG is calculated via GPS, something which is far more accurate than
> any speedo. Typically, my odometer shows 103 miles per 100 actual miles
> traveled and this number has varied by as much as 1.5 miles. Not that that
> is going to throw my numbers off too far. Just something to consider.
> 
> 

When my S4 was just chipped with an exhaust it got consistent 28mpg on the 
highway going 80mph. After all the fun stuff I still got 22mpg on the highway. 
On the track I got 8mpg.

Elijah