Driving 80% freeway, I get 15MPG

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Xionide

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Quit bumping your own thread. Your camaro gets sh!tty mileage. Thank you captain obvious.
 
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glugglug

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If your Camaro gets 15mpg highway something is wrong with it. Unless you failed to read the first page of modern owners manuals (which now actually have this due to American stupidity):
WARNING: Driving with the parking brake on will reduce gas mileage and increase brake wear.
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Seriously, does the car give off the smell of unburnt gasoline while you are driving? Because 15mpg highway is absurd. BTW, you probably want to add octane boost to the tank when you fill up -- back when that car was made REGULAR was 93, super was 99 I think, maybe more. This might be part of the problem.

Edit: OMG, I looked it up, that car really is supposed to get only 16mpg highway. How insane, you'd think sports car aerodynamics would help it a bit but apparently not in this case.
 
nakedfrog

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: glugglug
If your Camaro gets 15mpg highway something is wrong with it. Unless you failed to read the first page of modern owners manuals (which now actually have this due to American stupidity):
WARNING: Driving with the parking brake on will reduce gas mileage and increase brake wear.
Click to expand...
.

Seriously, does the car give off the smell of unburnt gasoline while you are driving? Because 15mpg highway is absurd. BTW, you probably want to add octane boost to the tank when you fill up -- back when that car was made REGULAR was 93, super was 99 I think, maybe more. This might be part of the problem.
Click to expand...

Was that before or after they started calculating the octane formula differently?
 
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MAME

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Originally posted by: glugglug
If your Camaro gets 15mpg highway something is wrong with it. Unless you failed to read the first page of modern owners manuals (which now actually have this due to American stupidity):
WARNING: Driving with the parking brake on will reduce gas mileage and increase brake wear.
Click to expand...
.

Seriously, does the car give off the smell of unburnt gasoline while you are driving? Because 15mpg highway is absurd. BTW, you probably want to add octane boost to the tank when you fill up -- back when that car was made REGULAR was 93, super was 99 I think, maybe more. This might be part of the problem.

Edit: OMG, I looked it up, that car really is supposed to get only 16mpg highway. How insane, you'd think sports car aerodynamics would help it a bit but apparently not in this case.
Click to expand...

I was about to tell you how wrong you were, but you found out yourself
 
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