[s-cars] Extremely Good Gas Mileage

[R. Mair]

I agree, and my mileages were taken on quite a long trip, but again, i used
a GPS to verify milege, not the odometer. I'd be curious to see if you
mileage is any worse or better with a GPS.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "chris chambers" <fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com>
To: "R. Mair" <waves at comcast.net>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Extremely Good Gas Mileage


> The higher gas mileage comes when you are on a long trip, and at
> cruising speed for long periods of time. With this type of driving you
> aren't hard into boost using alot more fuel.
>
> Just cruising on the highway I have calculated 28, and 30 mpg.
> Now if I get into traffic and do alot of slowing down and speeding up,
> well then my fuel consumption increases to ~25 mpg. Aroudn the city I'm
> closer to 20-22 mpg.
>
> HTH
> Chris
>
>
>
> --- "R. Mair" <waves at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
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