350z Gas Mileage
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350z Gas Mileage
Looking into buying a 350z and i was wondering how bad is the gas mileage. Does your car take alot of gas?
How often do you fill up gas and how much does it cost?
How often do you fill up gas and how much does it cost?
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Gas mileage is no worse than any other 3.5 liter. If you take it easy and don't drive too spirited, you can get over 20 miles per gallon. I get 24 mpg hwy driving, however if you rev it out in around town driving you can get under 15 MPG. The cost depends on how hard you drive, how often you drive and where you live. Here in NY i'm paying about 2.60 a gallon for 93 octane which is the lowest any of us should be putting in. Takes me about $35 to fill it and lasts me a week, but I only drive 10k miles a year on the Z. It's great to have a cheap 4 cyl car as a beater. My corolla gets over 30 MPG. Just about any V6 SUV gets worse gas mileage so as far as that goes it's not that impractical.
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Originally Posted by Mantis3024
Before I was averaging at 20 city/25 highway. Now after test pipes, Im getting 23 city/30 highway.
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Originally Posted by 05 NISMO
wait... you actually get more miles with test pipe?
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Originally Posted by htownplaya
Looking into buying a 350z and i was wondering how bad is the gas mileage. Does your car take alot of gas?
How often do you fill up gas and how much does it cost?
How often do you fill up gas and how much does it cost?
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Well on the city i get 19-20mpg. on the highway if i drive a normal 65 i get 26-30.
If i drive around 75-80 it varys between 25-27.
Also ammount of up hill driveing and down hill driveing affect this.
05 Automatic Enthuiast.
If i drive around 75-80 it varys between 25-27.
Also ammount of up hill driveing and down hill driveing affect this.
05 Automatic Enthuiast.
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gas mileage
I just completed a vacation trip over 3500 miles. The average for the whole trip was 26.2 mpg. The first leg of the trip was from Fort Worth to Dumas, Tx, I got 29.7, but that was staying within the speed limit of 70 mph. After I go to Colorado, I was going mostly 80 to 85 on the freeway until I got to the mountains going from Pueblo to Grand Junction. The mileage went down a little. When I got to Utah, the flow of traffic was going 90- 100 in the open spaces and the mileage went down again, still around 25 though. Like I said for the whole trip i averaged 26.2 and I think that is pretty decent for a car that performs as well a Z. BTW on my trip I went to Arches Nat'l Park and Bryce Canyon Nat'l Park then on to Las Vegas on the Los Angeles. The return trip I came back as straight as I could thru Phoenix and El Paso to Fort Worth. The Z is a dream of a road car and gas mileage should never enter into deciding to buy one.
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Before all my N/A mods, I use to get 25.4 mpg but after all the mods were installed, I only get 21.6 now. That is driving from clear lake to the Galleria area in traffic time everyday. Like a few other people have said already, it really depends on how you drive. I only get on it when provoked, =) otherwise, I just cruise and enjoy my car.
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Originally Posted by TK2005
Damn, bro. Are you still looking for a Z? Don't worry about gas mileage. If gas milage is a concern, you can get a Prius. I don't know how some of these people are getting 25+mpg because every car I have been in, if you check the mileage display on the guage, they all show roughly 16-18mpg.
Ya man im still looking for the right Z. I don't know if i will get a new one but hopefully a used one. I check ebay and Autotrader everyday so im still waiting on that perfect Z i want. This gives me more time to save up more for a downpayment as well.
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I just purchased a 2005 Touring Z, and I am incredibly pleased with the mileage: 24.6 on the highway, about 17 or so in the city. This is such a pleasant change from my 1991 BMW 850i, which I loved, but which got about 16 mpg highway, and 7, yes 7, miles per gallon in the city!
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Originally Posted by TK2005
...If gas milage is a concern, you can get a Prius...
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I just purchased a 2005 Touring Z, and I am incredibly pleased with the mileage: 24.6 on the highway, about 17 or so in the city. This is such a pleasant change from my 1991 BMW 850i, which I loved, but which got about 16 mpg highway, and 7, yes 7, miles per gallon in the city!
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true.. if your buying a sports car mpg should never be your main concern, especially when you are getting ready to drop 20-40k on one. if you got money to buy one then you got money to put gas in it.
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It's tough to say because the speedo fluctuates. I would reset the trip on your next fill and run it close to empty and do the math from there for a more accurate reading, just a suggestion. On a full tank my DTE reads about 360-370. But I got about 420 miles on a full tank which is about 21 mpg. I'm sure I had atleast another 20-30 more to go. BTW this was mostly Highway from San Diego to LA.