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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 08:26 AM
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Default Re: The Unknown Car...

Originally Posted by blackcrossfire07
Bad gas mileage? I get 32 mpg. Did a long highway road trip and I documented it...
Unless you were taking a 15 hour road trip at 55 mph the entire time, I don't believe you. I have a 30 mile commute each day and rarely drive over 60 mph and have never gotten over 24 mpg and i've had the car since new. The car runs as it should, without any type of check engine lights.

There's no way a car with as high a highway mpg as 25 (only for the automatic, which I don't have), consistantly gets near 32 mpg on a regular basis with a standard mixture of highway and city driving that most people do. Unless you're some extreme hypermiler, which makes me wonder why you even own the car if that's the case.

A new TT isn't saying all that much considering the standard model has 200 hp and if you were running with him from highway speeds then it's totally believable. If it was a 3.2L TT, it's a bit less likely unless the guy was in the wrong gear. But hey, I did pretty well against an Audi B6 S4--the V8 powered sports sedan based on the A4 with like 340hp. Was the guy really racing me? I have no idea. And I was able to beat on a current civic Si, which like the early mkII TT cars is a fwd ca with 200 hp.
 
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