Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:03:04 -0500 From: ma_twain <ma_twainnospamo.com> Subject: Re: Just a Saab ng newbie question
The relatively high highway mileage is pure highway driving only in the top gear. This is a common trick used by GM and Ford to improve the CAFE. The real mileage for most drivers would be city and combined, which would be closer to under 15 MPG and maybe 20 something MPG. Drive the Corvette aggressively and you might even see it drop to below 10 MPG. When my wife drives a four cylinder car, she gets 24 MPG city, when I drive the same car on the same roads, I get 26 MPG. Driving style probably impacts gas mileage more than anything else. SmaartAasSaabr wrote: > Fuel economy? 400 horsepower Corvettes get 30 miles per gallon on the > highway! It is also entirely aluminium with a plastic intake manifold, > and thus rather light for it's power output. It is also very short due > to being an overhead valve V8. > >