If you put it into 6th too early, wouldnt your engine have to work harder yielding bad MPG. I could be wrong but If i shifted into 6th at 30 and started going up a steep hill and had to floor the car to keep it rolling........I wouldnt expect good gas mileage. Also, arent these cars supposed to be revved up!! All the money you are going to save on gas youll have to pay back for a new engine at 35,000 due to carbon build up.

 

Putting the car in 6th gear at low RPMs will yield you bad MPG, right? I mean, you're in a higher gear, to accelerate actually, you'll have to put the pedal down more, adding more fuel to the engine...or am I way off course?

 

I just asked that?!

 

well, ,guess that's what I get for not reading before posting?

 

LOL was a great thread revival and interesting read.

I've never really experimented w/mpg before... my commute is 100 miles round trip, I reach a quarter tank by the end of the second day and fill up, except for last night. Today I drove the 50 miles in to work, filled up, it was about 13.3 gallons. So I guess I'm not doing too bad. Commute consists of highway speed of 70 - 75, then stop and go traffic for the last 20 miles.

 

This thread is cracking me up. I get 9mpg in my current car which is for sale. I am going to buy an RX8 once I sell it.

Put your car in gear, rev, pop clutch, redline, shift to second and repeat rev and redline part until you run out of gears or hit traffic.

The smile on your face while you are paying you gas bill will be offset by the enjoyment you get.

There, problem solved.

I have an idea! Let's see who can go through the LEAST amount of miles for a tank of gas!

Now that would be a worthy experiment.

 

9MPG? ouch

 

Ouch is an understatement. Now you know why I am in the market for an RX8. In my mind it is practically a Prius in the gas mileage world!

 

Holy old thread Batman!

 

I wanted to chime in with everyone on this:

I live in Baltimore and work in DC. My commune is 48 miles one way so 96 miles total.
I drive at 2800 RPM about 57mph all the way down to DC and Back. THAT IS SLOW on highway 295.

Last week I filled up 12.5 gallons on Monday and made it to Wednesday at 290 miles.

If you do the math I did about 23 mpg. Yet that still hurts the pocket when I have to fill up every 3 days.

Im going to post what I did this week.

 

Thanks for bringing back a post from '04.
Chances are, no one here is going to care much what you get from your RX-8 while hypermiling it in traffic. Its still going to be lower than the person in the lane next to you with a Fiat 500 Abarth.

BC.

 

@ someone buying an RX-8 for long commutes and then driving 57MPH. I just don't get the MPG BS and why it constantly comes up. I mean even if the RX-8 got 30MPG you are still talking about peanuts in terms of money saved. It's just retarded considering all the BS normal people waste money on (lap dances, hand jobs, etc.).