I’ve always driven light trucks that cruise the highway at 75 around 2400 rpms.
3k close to 80mph seems a little high. Seems like it was close to 3.7k rpm at 100 mph the other day.

 

Seems about right. 6,000 RPM would give you a little over 150 mph and that is were the factory limit is set..
Maybe some one else can check out on the road today. I think the final drive ratio is the same with the manual and auto transmissions and you are not driving a SRT6 by the speedometer gauge top end of 160 mph.
Driving those speeds should give you about 27 ~ 28 miles per gallon if you can put it in cruise control and have an open road.

 

EDIT: You should thank me. By all rights, I should bite your head off for this quote. WHY? Cause it is ignorant and embarrassing. And I have every right to do so, because, you see, ten years ago I showed up here on this very forum and compared my Limited Roadster to the pickup trucks I'd been driving for twenty plus years. The crew here made me feel like a damn fool, if you search, you can still read the S#li storm that I was hit with. But, the Dragon is two weeks away and I'm in a good mood...................

Mine is around 2700 at 80, but I run 285s on the back, larger tire so it turns slower. (Remember, your speedometer is driven by the front wheel sensors.) You are obviously running the OEM size tires - do not make THAT mistake again!

But really? You are going to compare a two seat sports car to a light pickup?
Your Crossfire is NOT a light truck, don't compare them.

......your Crossfire can do stuff yer truck can't (like tear thru the curves on the Dragon at 50mph, do not try that in your truck)
......and the truck can do stuff the Crossfire can't (like hop over a curb without screwing the alignment up, don't try that in your Crossfire).


I already know that you drive the car like it was a truck, just from your asking the question. See, I asked questions like that when I got my first Roadster...
Consider the Eureka Springs meet next June - you and I can drive up there together - now THAT week will teach you stuff about the car you can't learn, living in TEXAS.

 

Here is the Ozark event link:
https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...th-2020-a.html

Im not really in Fort Worth, I never disclose on the internet personal stuff - but I'm essentially within a few minutes of I45...

 

Pizzaguy what is it that you don't like about driving in Texas? Is it just to flat and barren or does the sun scorch you in the roadster. IL is flat but lots of nice greenery sun only scorches you a few days a year. Never been to Texas but I hated driving through AZ and NM. The barren terrain was depressing to me.

 

After living in the north Georgia mountains, the flat, brown, dead scenery of north Texas is simply hell.
What compounds the misery is that I live in the DFW metro area. City living sucks. There is no other way to say it.

 

"Take me home, country roads, to the place I belong"
Yea, Yea I know that was West Virginia, but close enough.

 

Thanks Zip, I have yet to check the mpg, but it does seem to be in the mid to upper 20s.