This is the price you pay for performance cars! Gas prices are at the lowest since the beginning of the year so it's not too bad!

Also look into shaving some weight. I forgot which company makes an all aluminum cat back exhaust but it saves you like 36 lbs.

It could be worse too, all the C63 owners are getting 12/19!

Just enjoy your car man!

 

I give up here, too. As I approach a stop-sign in gear, coasting fuel-cut activated and therefore using no fuel, and you approach the same stop-sign out of gear, using fuel to maintain an idle, you are saving fuel over me because the rules simply don't apply to you or your car.

 

Your attitude is quite helpful! I suppose it's hard for someone like you to admit when you're wrong. Answer me this: Will your car coast longer in neutral or in gear?

 

It will coast farther out of gear. But it will be using fuel while doing so.

Now, all we need is a thread that is about how far one can coast, instead of a thread on mileage and you'd totally pwn me.

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Unless your point was this: assume that one always starts coasting as soon as the car has enough momentum to reach the next place where it will stop. Ignore how incredibly dangerous and obnoxious this would be (e.g., coasting at 2 mph in a city); ignore also the fact that nobody would ever do this. Just assume, in the name of being able to win an argument on the internet, that this is how you drive ... as soon as you have enough momentum to reach the next stopping point, you stop using the gas pedal and coast.

Will you use more or less gas in or out of gear? This is a tough call. Being in gear will cause a bunch of drag, but use no fuel. Being out of gear will coast much farther, such that you could enter coasting mode sooner, but some gas will be used while coasting to maintain idle.

I'd love to claim that it's too close to call, but I can't. I know that Evos have quite a bit of drag and rather light engines, so I know that, under these ridiculous conditions, you win ... being out of gear would be better. Yes, you read that correctly: if you restrict the discussion to coasting from the moment you have the momentum required to reach the next stopping point, you win. Congrats.

Now go away.