C6 fuel consumption
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Just gone through my first full tank of 95 RON in my newly-acquired C6 (Z51/MZ6). My daily commute comprises ~90% Motorway and 10% dual carriageway / A-roads. Wanted to see how accurate the calculated fuel consumption was compared to the actual fuel used and to see how much I could squeeze out of the gallon. Amazingly, the car has averaged 28.13MPG ACTUAL. The calculated figure was 23.9MPG (based-on a US gallon, which equates to 28.68MPG per UK gallon). Not bad for a 400BHP, 6-litre V8 in a car that can do 0-60 in 4, eh?
Round town, forget it though; last Friday, I had to drive through town during the afternoon rush hour. Stop/start, hardly got out of 2nd gear. 4 miles took me about 40 minutes and my average fuel consumption was 6.4MPG!
Cheers,
Ian.
Round town, forget it though; last Friday, I had to drive through town during the afternoon rush hour. Stop/start, hardly got out of 2nd gear. 4 miles took me about 40 minutes and my average fuel consumption was 6.4MPG!
Cheers,
Ian.
Edited by ian_uk1975 on Friday 15th February 12:04
Hi Ian
Pretty much the same story for the C5 LS1. I took a colleague from Basingstoke via Wokingham to Preston and back yesterday (earpugs installed) and at a reasonably high cruising speed, my indicated was 27.8 - even with about 80 miles of spirited country lane / a-road driving thrown in when he wasn't in the car.
They truly are remarkable engines - even on the wrong side of 100,000 miles. If we made them 40 feet long with an articulated rear end, do you think that Ken would approve?
Kev.
Pretty much the same story for the C5 LS1. I took a colleague from Basingstoke via Wokingham to Preston and back yesterday (earpugs installed) and at a reasonably high cruising speed, my indicated was 27.8 - even with about 80 miles of spirited country lane / a-road driving thrown in when he wasn't in the car.
They truly are remarkable engines - even on the wrong side of 100,000 miles. If we made them 40 feet long with an articulated rear end, do you think that Ken would approve?
Kev.
SeeFive said:
Hi Ian
Pretty much the same story for the C5 LS1. I took a colleague from Basingstoke via Wokingham to Preston and back yesterday (earpugs installed) and at a reasonably high cruising speed, my indicated was 27.8 - even with about 80 miles of spirited country lane / a-road driving thrown in when he wasn't in the car.
They truly are remarkable engines - even on the wrong side of 100,000 miles. If we made them 40 feet long with an articulated rear end, do you think that Ken would approve?
Kev.
Hi Kev,Pretty much the same story for the C5 LS1. I took a colleague from Basingstoke via Wokingham to Preston and back yesterday (earpugs installed) and at a reasonably high cruising speed, my indicated was 27.8 - even with about 80 miles of spirited country lane / a-road driving thrown in when he wasn't in the car.
They truly are remarkable engines - even on the wrong side of 100,000 miles. If we made them 40 feet long with an articulated rear end, do you think that Ken would approve?
Kev.
My C5 was never quite THAT economical on fuel... although it was an A4 and had Borla Stingers, CAI and a tune. Used to average 25mpg on my daily (80-mile round-trip) commute. Still amazing though!
Cheers,
Ian.
Maxwedge said:
American cars get knocked for being single cam and big displacement gas guzzlers...but really the new Vipers 8.4 liter is going to get 26 mpg highway and makes 600hp...what Ferrari even comes close to that...and lets not even compare Reliability of a Corvett/Viper vrs a Ferrari...
To be honest, Ferraris are pretty reliable these days... my 355 has been faultless. Fuel consumption is lousy though! Revving to nearly 9k RPM doesn't help though, lolCheers,
Ian.
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