I forgot to remind everyone that I did this on 87 octane.

 

I always get better with cruise, but i have a 5 speed so theres no up and down shifting, i also drive 50 miles to work all freeway, no traffic.

 

It's not that hard to beat cruise control even with slight inclines. Cruise control cannot predict what elevation changes are coming. In addition cruise control maintains a constant speed, not load. If I P&G then i will really whip cruise control economy.

You can't get mileage like I do with cruise. Period.

 

But I stay out of the way, and I don`t speed up slow down, I hate being behind thoses people :) and like the other guy said, I didn`t buy this for gas savings, that`s what the motorcycle is for.

 

I understand, and agree it can be annoying to follow someone who drives with constant load, however unless you are in the slow lane, you'll never be following me :) Also, if you P&G correctly, and the person behind me isn't a YO-YO (my definition of a person that drives exactly the speed of the person in front of them like they are connected with an elastic string: read negative), I will still average the same speed as a person on cruise, i will gain distance then get pulled in, however i will never be "caught" unless the person behind me speeds up also.
If said person catches me, then they are in effect speeding up and slowing down just like me. So who is annoying? Many truckers (my slowlane friends :)) vary speed with terrain (sometimes just because of the hill steepness up AND down) and i drive miles and miles, they get close, then far, then close, then far, i never slow them up.

I've tried hypermiling at "elevated speed", and i can increase fuel economy while going above 70/75 over cruise also. The techniques work regardless of speed :)

Efficient driving....is efficient driving.

 

well i`ll put it this way, your efficient driving is work and mine is not and the 5 to 10 dollars I would save a week isn't worth the trouble, i can ride my motorcycle once a week and more than make up the difference, heck if I ride twice I can drive my SS at 80 and still be ahead besides I bought an SS for hot rodding and fun, if i wanted super mileage i would have kept my cobalt or bought a Japanese car.

 

My mountain/road bike beats the crap out of you "MOTOR"cycle in MPG. I get anywhere from 17-25 miles per quart. 68-100 miles per gallon of gatorade. HA!

Which Japanese car with similar interior room, and 260 hp gets better mileage?? I'll help you out, dont search for what you won't find :)

Chevy rules.

I could get stupid high mileage in a cobalt xfe!

While on my Absurd mileage pursuit I saved the equivalent of $16 per week if I was to drive like that all year ...18,000 miles.

I know that it would be work for you. But its actually a lot of fun. Adding two + three was hard a long time ago, but after you LEARNED it was the simplist thing on earth. Some people think that going to the strip is just driving in a straight line, never really going that fast (107mph big whoop), for an ABsurdly short distance (i can run a quarter mile in 52 seconds?? If i chased you down the track, id get there a whopping 38 seconds late, big whoop) over and over again.
And still other think driving in an endless circle for 500 miles is like getting tortured by Saddam.
Hypermiling is no more work, or no less fun than all the other racing "sports".

This is all true, and all in JEST! So don't get surly

 

it`s still the question? why get a high horsepower car if all your going to do is try to get great MPG? I know it`s fun to drive but so is a mini cooper and you can now get it in a clubman which is a lot longer for the room you want, and it is like driving a go cart on rails. my point on this whole thing is why buy a 4wheel drive if you never engauge it, why buy a corvette if you not going to hit 180 every once in a while, do you think the averege ferrari buyer wonders what his MPG will be, quit being a pansey and stand on it, waste some gas, it`s the american way!! and ride you bike occasinally to make up for it

P.S. buy superunleaded, because your SS deservies it

 

LOL, there is no penalty in getting as SS model. The questionis why not get the "high horsepower" model?

The mini clubman is tiny. As in ABSURDLY SMALL. At 6'1'' 190 i don't think that the clubman is sized perfectly for me. Check the stats, an HHR is like 25-33% larger in everyway that matters...Legroom, cargo room...etc.

The clubman is slow comparison,even the S model is quite a bit slower.Though I could hypermile the clubman to well over 43mpg overall, why spend a lot more money, and get less space, less power and higher repair/maintenance costs?

Its an awesome car, but not for me.

The hhr ss is not bad in turns, an hopefully better once i get the sway bar.

Most people never use 4wd. They always carry the weight, and pay the premium. But if you put a recorder on how many times the atuo-engaging 4wd kicked in, over teh course of a year, I'd say 95% or less of driving miles would be in 4wd.

Uh 180mph? Where did you do that? My dads 03 wont do more than 170. As I told another member. If your not on two wheels, your not going fast... Period.

I don't think theres much that is average about a guy buying a ferrari. Looking at the mileage that these types of cars accrue (rob report) they spend most of the time in a garage or valet parking lot.

A couple of years back I passed a enzo ferrari while crossing the golden gate bridge. I passed him at 60...lol It was black with South Carolina plates. Nice car. But he was just crusin. Another idiot crashed one right after I was in Cali, he destroyed the car, and it technically wasn't his/stolen. OOPS, yeah yeah, he was using the car "like it was designed to do"...to bad its illegal...lol and dangerous, and he almost killed himself and others. Good thing that carbonfiber shell is tough.

I waste gas everytime I drive. I just like wasting less than most people.

Since I don't want to get surly,
Ill forget that you called me a PANSY

P.S...... ill get that superunleaded if you can get 36+mpg over a tank in your daily driving wil greater than 30% in the city. No trips longer than 25 miles. LOL, I won't hold my breath.

 

Well you dad should have bought a 2007 Z06, 191 MPH per tomtom GPS, and while you gas mileage might not change with regular unleaded your performance will, that has been proven many times, compression needs octane, and when you turbo is at full boost your compression is very high don`t get me wrong if your car doesn`t ask for it it`s a complete waste of money.