Anyone have solid MPG info?

[snorkafunk]

Well I was pretty shocked today...i did a trip from Cambridge, ON to Peterborough, ON (around 225km/140miles each way)...filled up before i left and reset the mileage monitor in the dash...when i arrived in Peterborough it read 6.7L/100 (42.16 MPG Imperial / 35.11 MPG US) and after driving around that town and then heading home...after hitting moderate Toronto traffic both ways it now says 7.4L/100 (38.17 Imperial / 31.79 US)

I still have a over 1/4 tank left so when the tank runs dry i'll do a final calculation.

BTW this was at speeds of 120-130km/h (75-80mph)

[snorkafunk]

Just filled up and did the math....35.76 Imperial and 29.77 US...so not AS good as i thought but still not bad...

[Frogstreet]

Originally Posted by snorkafunk

Just filled up and did the math....35.76 Imperial and 29.77 US...so not AS good as i thought but still not bad...

I could live with 36mpg and 285hp! Best of both worlds! I know many people with cvt Calibers and they don't get anything like that, even with the 2-litre engine.

My most recent tank yielded 30 Imperial or 25 US. If only Sunoco Gold wasn't $1.33/litre! I wonder how it runs on mid-grade?

[snorkafunk]

30 Imperial is around what i've been getting normally...but that 36 i hit was 90% highway 10% city...

[ding0k]

You guys are all nuts.

I live in Houston, TX (pretty flat area) and I bought my CSRT-4 a month ago. Driving only on city roads (no highway), my tanks average 17-19 MPG. If I sprinkle in some highway here and there, my tanks average 21-24.

This 30 MPG that people are reporting is pretty nuts. You'd have to restrict yourself to 55-60 and do very slow acceleration. If you're like me, and you buy the SRT-4 because you actually *like* driving fast, you're not going to top 25 on a tank, ever. (That's averaging 80 or so on the highway, and not being cautious on the side streets.)

Those of you that are getting 35 with an SRT4, I ask you: why on earth did you buy a fast car if you're not going to drive it? I could get 40 MPG in a civic hybrid driving faster and more aggressive than you'd have to drive to get 35 in a CSRT-4.

These numbers I'm reporting are all from trip calc and fillups. I've tested the dash readout and it's always 1 or 2 MPG off. It biases toward the kind of instantaneous mileage you get when you reset.

[Bodnar4]

Originally Posted by ding0k

You guys are all nuts.

I live in Houston, TX (pretty flat area) and I bought my CSRT-4 a month ago. Driving only on city roads (no highway), my tanks average 17-19 MPG. If I sprinkle in some highway here and there, my tanks average 21-24.

This 30 MPG that people are reporting is pretty nuts. You'd have to restrict yourself to 55-60 and do very slow acceleration. If you're like me, and you buy the SRT-4 because you actually *like* driving fast, you're not going to top 25 on a tank, ever. (That's averaging 80 or so on the highway, and not being cautious on the side streets.)

Those of you that are getting 35 with an SRT4, I ask you: why on earth did you buy a fast car if you're not going to drive it? I could get 40 MPG in a civic hybrid driving faster and more aggressive than you'd have to drive to get 35 in a CSRT-4.

These numbers I'm reporting are all from trip calc and fillups. I've tested the dash readout and it's always 1 or 2 MPG off. It biases toward the kind of instantaneous mileage you get when you reset.

I'm assuming this 30-35 MPG that people are talking about is in imperial mpg and not US mpg. and imperial mpg is 1.2 times more than a US mpg....i.e. 30 imperial mpg = 25 US mpg.

[christyc1984]

I have had mine for 2 weeks now and usually don't get above 27 mpg highway... I got 30 one time...and I took it on a road trip last weekend, all highway, and averaged 25 mpg.... It has a little over 1,000 miles on it now. City I get between 22-24 average.

[dacoda2]

I bought my Cali R/T in Aug. 2007, I drive 50 miles one way to work. I've averaged 31 mpg's highway to and from work. Whilst the weekends it drops to around 26-28 mpg's.

[Trinity]

I average between 23-26MPG.

27-29 on long highway trips.


that's also if I dont get on the boost every single time I accelerate.