everyone bitches about gas prices and still drives 80MPH

**SLIM_DURST** · 07-08-2006, 07:02 AM

when i go long distances I put cruise control on 55 and get 30MPG or so. I go 75 and it only get 23MPG. If I fill up tank (16 gallons) and go 300 miles, that means if I go 55, I'll still have 6 gallons left . if I go 75, i'll have only 3 gallons. that saves $10 right there. i don't understand how all these SUV's just blow by me on the highway one after the other, and then they cry at the pump when it cost them $60 to fill up.

**Mr. Luos** · 07-08-2006, 07:06 AM

Both my cars get better mileage at around 80.

meanZ97 · 07-08-2006, 07:15 AM

ah the beauty of a 6 spd. i can cruise down the highway at 80 in 6th gear and only be at 1500rpms.

**tnthub** · 07-08-2006, 08:20 AM

My car gets the best gas mileage at 78mph... It is called a manual lockup switch.

**needmorepwr** · 07-08-2006, 09:52 AM

I was thinking that the other day watching some idiot in a SUV floor it off the line and then slam on the brakes at the next stop light. And I see people driving like that all the time in town. If you drive like that all the time then you don't get to bitch about gas prices.

**Pulse Red GTO** · 07-08-2006, 03:35 PM

I totally agree! I can get great mileage in the GTO M6 setting the cruise at about 74.

**Sarge** · 07-08-2006, 04:59 PM

55! WTF! I hate you guys...clogging up the dayum road....drive 55 on the shoulder of the road dayum it....Nah...I went through all this gas shit during Jimmy " I'm a DickHead" Carter and the fuel shortages and shit...everybody freakin out....55 and 70 really dont make an pissant bit of difference in the big picture...

**birdman7389** · 07-08-2006, 08:15 PM

55 is too damn slow.

**SeVeReDiStOrTiOn** · 07-08-2006, 09:33 PM

I wouldn't say you get better gas mileage going 55...the gas you're saving from driving slow is used up by being on the road so f'in long. I'd rather drive 75-80 and get there faster and shut the car off...plus most highways here are 65.

**GatorSS** · 07-08-2006, 09:56 PM

Originally Posted by Sarge

55! WTF! I hate you guys...clogging up the dayum road....drive 55 on the shoulder of the road dayum it....Nah...I went through all this gas shit during Jimmy " I'm a DickHead" Carter and the fuel shortages and shit...everybody freakin out....55 and 70 really dont make an pissant bit of difference in the big picture...

Heck, my mileage is better at 80 than at 55.

**Cerwin Vega Fan** · 07-08-2006, 09:56 PM

Originally Posted by Mr. Luos

Both my cars get better mileage at around 80.

X2. I love my 2:73 rear end.

meanZ97 · 07-08-2006, 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by SeVeReDiStOrTiOn

I wouldn't say you get better gas mileage going 55...the gas you're saving from driving slow is used up by being on the road so f'in long. I'd rather drive 75-80 and get there faster and shut the car off...plus most highways here are 65.

all our highways down here in Texas are 70. i think we even have some roads now that are at 80!

**slo4mula** · 07-09-2006, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by SeVeReDiStOrTiOn

I wouldn't say you get better gas mileage going 55...the gas you're saving from driving slow is used up by being on the road so f'in long. I'd rather drive 75-80 and get there faster and shut the car off...plus most highways here are 65.

Can you really be serious?????

**Hi-Po** · 07-09-2006, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by SeVeReDiStOrTiOn

I wouldn't say you get better gas mileage going 55...the gas you're saving from driving slow is used up by being on the road so f'in long. I'd rather drive 75-80 and get there faster and shut the car off...plus most highways here are 65.

hmmmm, i duno about that one.

**SeVeReDiStOrTiOn** · 07-09-2006, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by slo4mula

Can you really be serious?????

What....it makes perfect sense. Yea you're spinning the motor less and saving a little gas going 55-60mph but you're driving longer because you're moving slower. Driving 80mph your motor is spinning 6-700 rpms

more but you're covering a lot more ground in a certain time frame therefore getting to your destination faster...and most people turn the car off when they get there

So say we left at the same time and were going to the track 100 miles away. I'd drive 80 all the way there and you'd drive 60...it would take you a hour and 40 minutes to get there while it only would take me like a hour and 20 minutes(not accurate but close). So i'd be waiting for you at the track for 20 minutes with the car off and not using any gas at all......it just seems to me that would make up for spinning the motor a little faster.

Since noones agreeing with me i'm thinking i'm crazy

**D!ck** · 07-09-2006, 11:46 AM

i havent gone 80mph in about 2 months seriously. so i dont know, but i could put any of u on a trailer and still get 20+mpg.

**Hi-Po** · 07-09-2006, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by SeVeReDiStOrTiOn

What....it makes perfect sense. Yea you're spinning the motor less and saving a little gas going 55-60mph but you're driving longer because you're moving slower. Driving 80mph your motor is spinning 6-700 rpms

more but you're covering a lot more ground in a certain time frame therefore getting to your destination faster...and most people turn the car off when they get there

So say we left at the same time and were going to the track 100 miles away. I'd drive 80 all the way there and you'd drive 60...it would take you a hour and 40 minutes to get there while it only would take me like a hour and 20 minutes(not accurate but close). So i'd be waiting for you at the track for 20 minutes with the car off and not using any gas at all......it just seems to me that would make up for spinning the motor a little faster.

Since noones agreeing with me i'm thinking i'm crazy

still dont know about that man. as long as it sounds good in your head.

**snaggeltooth** · 07-09-2006, 01:22 PM

Well I just checked it ..The Mark VIII has a screen for instant economy. I drove 7 miles to lincoln. I drove on the highway down there at 57 got 20 mpg.. I came back on the interstate at 78 got 27 mpg ..