question on the autostick shifter.
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RE: question on the autostick shifter.
kinsco - I'll be in Ft. Myers the 6th of April. Going to see my daughter, son-in-law and two grand kids.
I'm getting what I consider tremendous mileage. I drive about 50 miles a day to and from work. It's about 50/50 freeway and in town, heavy traffic driving. When I pull into my parking lot space, the car's computer says, usually, somewhere between 24 and 26 mpg. On the way home, by the time I take the exit ramp off the freeway, it has actually indicated a couple times, 30+ mpg, but usually around 27-28. I just leave it in auto mode, except sometimes when I get into heavy traffic, I'll pull it into slap stick mode. I almost always turn off the traction control. Don't know if that makes any difference or not.
dave
I'm getting what I consider tremendous mileage. I drive about 50 miles a day to and from work. It's about 50/50 freeway and in town, heavy traffic driving. When I pull into my parking lot space, the car's computer says, usually, somewhere between 24 and 26 mpg. On the way home, by the time I take the exit ramp off the freeway, it has actually indicated a couple times, 30+ mpg, but usually around 27-28. I just leave it in auto mode, except sometimes when I get into heavy traffic, I'll pull it into slap stick mode. I almost always turn off the traction control. Don't know if that makes any difference or not.
dave
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RE: question on the autostick shifter.
You needed the package, I believe, that has the little controls on the steering wheel spokes. Mine just happened to have this package on it. Not sure I would have ordered the package if I had ordered the car. But I'm kind of glad I have it now.
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RE: question on the autostick shifter.
06 Daytona, wife gets about 15 MPG, and complains. I drive it for a week, and the trip computer gets up to 20 MPG. She starts driving it, and it starts to drop again. Sounds like it is your driving habits, and not the vehicle that is affecting your MPG. Back in January, my wife took it out of the garage for just one day, got a speeding ticket for 92 in a 60. If this sounds like something you would do, then that is probably why you only get 15 MPG. I personally have only had it up to 120 once, and that was only to prove someone on this forum wrong that said it had a fuel cutout at 115 MPH. I was running out of clear road, so I had to slow back down.
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I do lot of stop and go driving short distances I can get 20 out on the highway but once i get in town it drops imm.to about 17mpg then gets worse.I even try to baby it in town and it still drops about .5mpg when I go get my daughter from school 2 mile rnd trip.I have had this up to 140 and still was climbing
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RE: question on the autostick shifter.
Martin - 140! Wow. What do you have in that thing :-)! I've had mine up to 120 once; she still had more to go, but in this altitude (about 5100 feet), I'm thinking about 130 or so would top her out.
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