Originally Posted by AllEuro
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.
I have a 2005 base coupe that I bought new in 2005. I took a 300 mile trip with my cruise control set at 70 MPH (the speed limit is 65). The speed limit goes up and down during the trip and I adjusted my speed. I never stopped once. Trust my word.... I left my house and topped off the gas tank and set the odometer. I drove 300 miles and topped off my tank again. I divided the number of miles driven by the number of gallons I put in the tank to top it off. It came to 32 MPG. You don't believe me that is your problem. I don't lie and I don't need to prove myself to you. But there are others here in the forum that have gotten 32 MPG out of their crossfires. I will admit... normal driving conditions on the highway of slowing down and speeding up with traffic only got 28 MPG. But the best I could do under perfect driving conditions is 32 MPG.
I drive 100+ miles per day in my daily driver SUV. 50 miles to work in each direction. I don't drive my crossfire as a daily driver anymore but the few times I do drive it I notice a difference. When you drive an SUV each day and you get in the crossfire you can feel the power and handling.