roadrunner

Thought id make a thread to see what the mpg is for us in our area. Especially since for those deep in Los Angeles, the traffic conditions are very "unique" (horrible!!!).

So im hoping we can get some good input. Not sure how many LA members there are here but post if your in LA or around SoCal. Mainly heavy city areas tho, cause otherwise youll probably get great mpg and make those in the city feel bad lol

Ill start off. Im near hollywood, commute is all city traffic to beverly hills, about 6-7mi, no freeways. Typically get around 15-17 so far. Got about 1500 mi on car so not fully broken in i guess.

You guys?

lakersfreak

My commute is from Glendale to burbank and I'm at about 13mpg. Only at 300 miles though and hoping for improvement as time passes.

roadrunner

Not sure if your taking the freeway, but that seems pretty good to me for a GT if its all city commute

Mr. V

I was commuting from Ontario to Alhambra. It's about 30 miles with some pretty heavy traffic both ways. I was getting about 17 mpg. I have a manual 5.0 with 3.73 gears.

Sky Hye

Just before I reset it it was 8

Matt's 95 Stang

Bought the car October 2012 - 24 fill ups so far, avarage is 25.3 MPG. Best was 32.1 (flat 65 MPG to Vegas), worst was 21.0. I use the Gas Cubby app to track mileage and MPG. Anyone use an app to or does everyone just use hand calculations?

roadrunner

I use an app too but i forgot lol. Its strange though, the car calculations always seem to be about 1mpg lower than what im actually getting. When you guys measure do you reset the average mpg every tank, or every day?

Matt's 95 Stang

Every tank.

roadrunner

About how many miles does the car computer need to give an accurate reading?

Cause sometimes i try to see if i can get an idea of the ave mpg on just a morning commute, or just the whole commute of 1 day, but im not sure how accurate it is cause its only about 13.5 miles total

beb

9-13 combination, mostly city.

15-18 hwy only, no traffic/light traffic.

I like attacking fwy on ramps.

roadrunner

frank s

My remembery of received wisdom is that the car should be driven at least five miles with the cruise control ON to render an accurate MPG reading.

I have all the data for nearly a year now (just turned 3,000 miles), but have been too unmotivated (lazy) to enter it into an app (Excel 2010). The machine in the car consistently shows 14-15 around town, 20-21 on extended freeway runs at the speed limits; best of 23-something on a leisurely 200 mile ride, San Diego to Idyllwild and return, on the second day we had it.

mustangray

my car has 10,000 miles on it now my average is 11 miles per gallon in the city and 17 was the best I got on the highway

roadrunner

not sure how accurate this is, but ive been testing my mpg by resetting daily, and ive learned if I leave to work WAY before everybody else starts jamming the streets, I can get 19-22 city!

generally, what time do you guys leave to work? for me its working by leaving at 7-7:15am.. by my commute is only like 6 miles

frank s

I've just completed 5,000 miles on the '13 GT coupe, 3.73 manual. Surface-street runarounds are consistently in the 15-16 MPG range; freeway travel about 22 MPG; mixed-use, 19 or so.

From October 11 through 16 we made a 1,346.7-mile vacation trip from San Diego to Santa Cruz, to Lake Tahoe, toward Bodie*, and home. Very nice, relaxing drive at elevations of sea-level to more than 8,000 feet and back. Used 53.8 gallons of 91-octane, for an actual MPG of 25.0. We stayed dead-on speed limits when we could, using cruise control. The car couldn't restrain itself a couple of times, and found itself going something like 55-over. On the stretch from Tracy, California to home, via Tahoe, it returned 27.8 MPG.

Also along for the ride was a new Escort Passport 9500ix RADAR detector. I am now a big fan. It reported surveillance well in advance of the appearance of the sources, and on several long downhill runs was responsible, I'm certain, for avoidance of contact by LEOs. One excellent feature is the display of actual speed from GPS. I found that setting cruise control so that the GPS speed was one MPH below the limit resulted in maintenance of the limit number in all except long downhills. Nice piece of work, even without using the speed trap and speed- and stoplight-camera database available through smart phones (I don't have a smart phone).

*Disappointed not to get to the ghost town of Bodie: the road from 395 is very nice for about nine of its thirteen miles. Then it turns bad. I mean BAD, as in severe jolts, even at a walking pace. The four miles would not have been tolerable in a Mustang; nineteen-inch rims have been known to collapse in such conditions. I felt good and bad about the decision to turn around, but happy, now. Home in one piece, all nuts and bolts (and rims) intact.

JVasser

2011 Base GT, Brembo pkg with the MT-82. Just hit 40,000 miles last week.

Average 16-19 in town (6.6 miles to work)

average 18- 23 on the fwy to ( get my daughter, run to riverside, fwy to canyon runs...)

Best was 28.1mpg, feathering it and letting it coast.

I typically run the 1st, 4th, 6th skip shift when loafing around town. I'll row through all 6 to get up to highway speeds and through the canyons.

No real mods, stock tune (with an intermittent misfire, gotta take it in), drop in K&N filter, Pypes 3in X pipe, resonator delete, 3in Magnaflow axle backs. Stock 3.73's.