whats the real world gas mileage for the car in your experience? mostly town.
In view of the car you are considering lets hope one of the world's six (approx) other Cali manual owners answer ! Or will you accept values for regular transmission ?
If you are getting over 12 mpg in town you are not driving it hard enough!!! 21 on expressway, yes, but that means you were also easy on the gas getting on the expressway, shameful! Rick
After 2.5 years of owning my Cali I decided to check the gas mileage last weekend....just before I sell the car I got 3.6 Miles per Litre with mixed driving (traffic, highway, spirited country lanes driving)
OK, you actually got me to do the conversion for us dullards in the USA (sometimes you just gotta know...). Took awhile since most calculators give liters per 100k, but you've got to search for a UK variant. My calc is 13.6 mpg, which is close to what I get with mine (about 13 mpg combined city/freeway).
Just checked mine. 13.6 mpg. Trying to get decent mileage in town for measurement, which means not too many fun times... Very few highway miles on this tank. Just over 100 miles on the car. John
If you can't afford gas for a car that costs over $200k...you can't afford the car. Just drive it and be glad all those Prius owners are saving gas for us!
Actually gas mileage does matter for me and it's not about the money at all. My truck also gets about the same gas mileage and I use it slightly more often than my Fcar. My issue with gas mileage has to do with how well Ferrari is handling the issue of impending government legislation on emissions. Emissions tend to vary with gas mileage. Some of you may not realize it but I figure pretty soon there is going to be very heavy pressure on governments to exert even tighter controls through new legislation because of the continued reports on how climate change is worsening and that it is definitely caused by man-made effects. The best way to avoid being blind-sided by such developments is for Ferrari to place themselves and their products amongst the broadest if not at the top of the vehicle categories that they make, in terms of emissions. In short, they do not want to be the worst offenders. They don't want to make the thirstiest and most polluting vehicles in their relevant car categories. Of course, this may not be important if you flip cars anyway and aren't really that taken by the Ferrari experience but it does matter if you like your Fcars and plan to own and drive them for a long time. In the old days, gas mileage was indeed about money and extravagance. Remember the "oil crisis"? If you could afford the gas, it didn't affect you much. But it's different now, it's about climate change, horrible storms and weather that end up with many people getting hurt, dying or losing everything they have. In fact, many already-destitute countries may become the earliest victims of climate change. It's no longer just about having to spend more on gas. That's why it's important that Ferrari is smart about how they satisfy our penchant for fast cars. Gas mileage, emissions and technology need to rate at least "decent" when compared to other cars in the category. It's OK to be deemed extravagant when you have the money anyway but climate change may well cause people to look down on this sort of extravagance as socially-irresponsible or worse. That's why Ferrari needs to promote an image that it is smart and responsible about the environment. Gas mileage does matter!
+1000 I can afford the gas and I, too care - not only about our environment and climate, etc, but also if Porsche for example, can produce cars in the same performance ballpark but better Ferrari in terms of efficiency by such a margin - it leaves one to wonder.
Guys you have very valid points...but you are comparing 2 things that are pretty different IMO. I agree that it is very important that Ferrari and all other manufacturer work on lowering emissions and gas consumption because of the regulations. What we are talking about here though (I think) is the real world gas mileage that people are getting with their cars. We all know very well that what is declared and what is actually achieved in real life are VERY different figures.
Well I disagree, we're talking about the same thing if we are comparing real world mileage between different cars, e.g. Fcars vs. Pcars vs. MACs. Real world mileage and factory-quoted gas mileage may be different from each other when you compare the figures from the SAME CAR but we are essentially comparing the same mileage measurement if we compare real world mileage between DIFFERENT CARS because all carmakers play the same game. For instance, when I referred to the mileage for my truck vs. my California 30, I referred to real world mileage for both vehicles. I wasn't using factory mileage for one vs. real world mileage for the other.
I think I've found a reason for the cali to have a readout of mpg and perhaps a more accurate distance to empty figure: Just done a track day and whilst stuck in an unforeseen traffic jam for 45 minutes, managed to run out of petrol. Much amusement from the rest of fellow jam-ees as we walked back to a cali abandoned in the outside lane of a dual carriageway. Enjoyed the half mile walk though .
I feared that very same outcome, attempting to make it back home in very heavy weekend traffic a while back, and was new enough to the car to not want to take a chance. I watched the "miles remaining" on the tank go from "enough" to reading empty over about 1 hour of crawling, with no relief in sight (let-up in traffic or known gas station). I reasoned that there must be a 1-2 gallon reserve once the "no fuel" indicator went on, but do you really want to trust that hunch?! Ultimately I gave in and exited for fuel to find I still had 2 1/2 gallons remaining - 10%+ if the tank holds 20.6 gallons as I believe. No, I did not want to be that guy walking back to the abandoned Ferrari with a fuel jug!
interesting. i did not realize the fuel tank was so small. btw, i nearly ran out of petrol in the 512tr on the italian corniche above monaco, 2 gas stations in a row closed....third one closed too! but then one across the highway was open....so i had to pull up on the shoulder and do the mad dash across 4 lanes and armco, to return with the jug...then limped to the next station that luckily was not closed. sweaty.
curious that the 458 tank is ~10% larger at 22.7 gal. would have surmised that the Cali would have the larger tank. not so, bro.
this is another good reason to complain about poor gas mileage, in my opinion: it is the very practical issue of range. both my Cali and Audi S4 get very poor range and I feel like I'm constantly filling the tank.
