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Just wondering what sort of fuel usage you guys get in city driving?

There are a few supercharged NC's but no one to my knowledge has turbocharged an NC in Australia. If they have it is not widely known.

magenb wrote:Just wondering what sort of fuel usage you guys get in city driving?

When you own a turbo you don't worry about fuel consumption, it takes too much discipline NOT to put the foot down when the opportunity arises so it's pointless trying to track it.

Black_Penguin wrote:There are a few supercharged NC's but no one to my knowledge has turbocharged an NC in Australia. If they have it is not widely known.

well there's atleast one ;)
http://www.carsales.com.au/private/deta ... =1&sdmvc=1

Lokiel wrote:

magenb wrote:Just wondering what sort of fuel usage you guys get in city driving?

When you own a turbo you don't worry about fuel consumption, it takes too much discipline NOT to put the foot down when the opportunity arises so it's pointless trying to track it.

nah Sydney roads are glorified car parks during the week

Lokiel wrote:

magenb wrote:Just wondering what sort of fuel usage you guys get in city driving?

When you own a turbo you don't worry about fuel consumption, it takes too much discipline NOT to put the foot down when the opportunity arises so it's pointless trying to track it.

this is too true!!

This is the 2nd time this car has been for sale on carsales in recent months.

Makes one wonder why ?

Novice1

If someone drove it was intimidated by the power you would get as stock or even better consumption, most people, expect it to go down by 25% due to giving it the boot.

Dann

It's for sale because the owner is asking a crazy $26K!
I'm sure he got no offers last time.
BTW Mine is supercharged with one of the original Cosworth kits (Now Flyin Miata).
It's a daily drive and my wife travels in traffic each day. A pleasure to drive with tons of torque at low rpm.
Fuel consumption is overall better than std both around town and particularly on the highway but it absolutely guzzles when the available power is used

What was he thinking with that interior and those driving lights?

Anyway, turbo's are awesome on fuel. Unless you're running lots of boost and flooring it all the time. Long cruises on the highway use almost nothing.

Sailor wrote:It's for sale because the owner is asking a crazy $26K!
I'm sure he got no offers last time.
BTW Mine is supercharged with one of the original Cosworth kits (Now Flyin Miata).
It's a daily drive and my wife travels in traffic each day. A pleasure to drive with tons of torque at low rpm.
Fuel consumption is overall better than std both around town and particularly on the highway but it absolutely guzzles when the available power is used

personally, i think $26,000 is a fair price.

this is the price it was listed for when it sold recently.

What sort of power torque u getting from the cosworth Sailor.

Novice1 aka Ron

Dre wrote:What was he thinking with that interior and those driving lights?

Yeah, the reds don't match and it's not even finished, it still has the OEM silver trim on the dash (needs to be red now) and there's no red leather on the steering wheel at all!!!

As for the driving lights, absolutely NO idea where he was going with that (car modz should have a consistent theme IMO).