RE: Corvette C5: PH Carpool

[The JM]

Great fuel consumption. My C6 Z06 is good too on a long run. Have seen 29 mpg at a steady 95mph in 6th, and its got a lariy cam! A morning blast around exmoor is more like 16mpg though.

[K50 DEL]

I used to see mid to high 30s out of my old C6 on a long run, 85mph in 6th is only just over 2k rpm as I recall so very unstressed at highway speeds.
Around town was a little worse but still surprisingly frugal.

Nice car to have at 22 OP, makes the Astra SRi I was hooning around in at that age seem a little pedestrian!

[Dagnut]

Love the attitude..."whats the most badass car I can get insured on?"...don't come much more badass than a Vette

[300bhp/ton]

Twoshoe said:

37mpg??!! Really?

Yep it's certainly possible. 40mph per 1000rpm in top, not that heavy and low CDa.

I've managed 31mpg out of my Camaro (same engine) and that's with an autobox and slightly more weight.

[LankyPaddy]

Thirty-Seven !!!

Sounds epic

[300bhp/ton]

j_s14a said:

37mpg? Perhaps being driven like a granny, on a very long run.

I'd love a 'vette, but my local fun roads make LHD totally impractical

37mpg would be a run yes. But no reason why 22-26mpg isn't a realistic average day in, day out.

What part of the country are you in? Only place I've driven in the UK where I think LHD wouldn't work so well is Cornwall, but then I personally wouldn't go for any low slung car for those roads, LHD or RHD.

[300bhp/ton]

Dagnut said:

Love the attitude..."whats the most badass car I can get insured on?"...don't come much more badass than a Vette

But hasn't it go leaf suspension?

[WTFWT]

I rented a 'vette and gave it plenty of stick and it still returned amazing MPG. Very underrated cars IMO...

Write up here:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Ali_T]

Is the author based in Edinburgh by any chance? Sure I've seen that 'vette around Corstorphine and very lovely it is too. I have a huuuuuge soft spot for them and nearly bought my own until I realised I have children....but you forget these things on test drives, you really do....

[chungasarnies]

I simply cannot believe that a 5.7 V8 will do 37mpg on anything less than a downhill ski slope in neutral! A quick look on Fuelly and these are doing 25 at best average (still not bad depending on how you look at it?). Why not stick your motor on and start calculating some accurate tank averages?

[300bhp/ton]

chungasarnies said:

I simply cannot believe that a 5.7 V8 will do 37mpg on anything less than a downhill ski slope in neutral! A quick look on Fuelly and these are doing 25 at best average (still not bad depending on how you look at it?). Why not stick your motor on and start calculating some accurate tank averages?

Fuelly is not really a great place too look. And I don't think the op is claiming a MEAN average of 37mpg, just that it can attain it.

Take a look at any Corvette owners forum (or Fbody as they use the same engine) and you'll see such claims are pretty common. Just remember to adjust US gallons to Imperial.

[kambites]

chungasarnies said:

I simply cannot believe that a 5.7 V8 will do 37mpg on anything less than a downhill ski slope in neutral! A quick look on Fuelly and these are doing 25 at best average (still not bad depending on how you look at it?). Why not stick your motor on and start calculating some accurate tank averages?

A 25mpg average and 37mpg on a long, slowish motorway run sounds believable to me?

[bagseye]

Great choice,

and another person away to look at the classifieds.

[LuS1fer]

My first American car was 1985 Corvette C4 at the age of 34 and I have had American cars since. the C4 was a daily driver and I had it 3 years and it was incredible fun, incredibly loud and like nothing else on the roads.

I decided to re-live the dream with a C5 Z06 but, if anything, the fcat it had become so much more accomplished than the C4 spoilt it a little but this was no daily driver so I think that affects the bond you have with the car, personally.

It's still a great car and the Z06 was very quick though the manual box was an impediment (the C4 was auto).

Great cars though. I changed mine for a supercahrged Mustang but in retrospect, I think I'd have been better off keeping the C5.

Anyway, don't give the secret away, these are great cars with low VED and insurance. Not sure I ever got 37mpg either but 30 was manageable and anyone can service an LS1.

Just watch the ECU as water can get into it. I think it's under the battery or something stupid like that.

[peter450]

Great cars, such a shame there is no RHD option

Really looking forward to the new RHD UK Mustang, if it does well, hopefully we'll get more US cars in RHD format over here at sensible prices.

They are seriously good value when compared against European supercars, and despite some peoples snob values, there surprisingly capable despite being 30 to 50 % of the price of something Italian or German

[rtz62]

I just couldn't help it, this just HAD to get a 10 on the PH O'Mete, anyone who has a beating heart and veins full of 4 or 5 star must surely feel the same.
ZR1 / Z06 would be my weapons of choice, purely because like like the optimum models of anything I own (he coughs nervously, looks at his feet whilst admitting in hushed tones that his current bolide is a Vauxhall Insignifica Cdti 160 nav....)
I was amazed how many I used to see around Newquay when the US had an airbase around there, and no end in Amsterdam where we have family friends; those crazy Dutch surely have good taste...!

[chungasarnies]

kambites said:

A 25mpg average and 37mpg on a long, slowish motorway run sounds believable to me?

Off to the classifieds for me then...I barely get 35 at 80 on a run in my 2.0t!

[Clivey]

peter450 said:

Great cars, such a shame there is no RHD option

Really looking forward to the new RHD UK Mustang, if it does well, hopefully we'll get more US cars in RHD format over here at sensible prices.

They are seriously good value when compared against European supercars, and despite some peoples snob values, there surprisingly capable despite being 30 to 50 % of the price of something Italian or German

Totally agree...it's just a shame that by they're ready to drive on our roads, the price is often back up to a similar level to the European competition. In the US though, nothing can touch them for the price.

[Ali_T]

300bhp/ton said:

Fuelly is not really a great place too look. And I don't think the op is claiming a MEAN average of 37mpg, just that it can attain it.

This. I once got a whopping 27mpg out of an RX8 on a long run, after all.....

Edited by Ali_T on Monday 17th February 13:21

[Buttmonkey]

I loved my C5, should never have sold it. Never saw over 30mpg though, the norm was 25mpg ish even on a long run down to Le Mans