Just curious what some of you all might get for gas mileage, or aproximately how many miles your driving on a tank of gas? I understand driving conditions play a big part. I drove 263 miles and the gas light came on. I was coming back from a trip, so it was all highway, with a cruise set speed of about 78mph. Does that sound like i should have been able to get more out of the tank?

Thank you for any input..

 

I have a 2004 996 C2 Tiptronic. I get about 22.5-23 mpg around town to and from work (about 50/50 street and urban hghway driving). On the highway, I generally stay near the speed limit and get about 27-28 mpg. We went on a drive on backroads last weekend for about 150 miles, mostly 50 mph-ish speeds through the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains last, few stops, got 31 mpg, which impressed me.

 

It occurred to me as I was driving to work this morning that there is another point to your driving. If you are running at about 78 mph, you are just above the speed where the rear wing automatically raises itself. It deploys at 75 mph to create more downforce (and stays up until you drop below 35), but an unavoidable consequence is more drag. I'd expect it robs you of between half and one full mile per gallon.

 

is there no manual control switch for that?

 

I have a 996TT and get around 17mpg around town - and I am a heavy right-footer. I often hit redline at least a few times each 'trip'. Otherwise most of the driving is freeway - where I usually sit on 85/90...

On a tank of gas I get around 200 (but that's not empty, so I'd guess around 220 or so...)

PS: You have a manual swith to lift/lower the spoiler BELOW 75 - no option above 75 - the car will force the spoiler up at 75.

 

There is a manual control for the rear wing. On my car it is down on the drivers left side foot kick panel (i.e., the cover over the fuse box) it is a switch on the panel itself. When the car is sitting stioll, push the button and it will raise the wing, push in the other way and it lowers. Not sure if it works when tyhe car is moving, though. The wing automatically raises at 75+ and lowers at 35. I tried once to lower it at 80 but it did not work. I think the manual control switch only works when the car is staionary.

 

We made a round trip from Atlanta to Birmingham and back. Mostly 75-85 mpg on I-20 with some back-roads to my sister's house. We averaged almost 28 mpg for the entire trip.

So far in 1.5 days of Christmas-time traffic (heavy at night, light in the morning) I've averaged around 16 mpg.

2003 C2 manual

 

I've noticed my mileage fell slightly since cold weather set in. I used to average 24 going to work (mixed highway and street driving), now I average 22-21. Maybe I'm just driving faster or more aggressively, or maybe the car doesn't like the winter fuel they force us to use here (from Nov on gasoline here has to have a 5% or 10% ethanol content - not sure which -- for lower winter emissions). It may simply be it does not like this.

 

I have a 996 Aero car (full time wing) and get about 240-260 per tank. I have some fun and normally put in a few 140+ mph fun runs. I don't think the wing will effect the over all mileage that much. A friend of mine had a non aero car and gets the same mileage as I do under the same driving conditions. better mileage...drive slower.