waynewarrior

Well it's my first post so sorry to rehash a familiar topic.

I've had my 06 TL over a month and have about 1500 miles on it. I took my first long trip all highway 300 miles+. My average speed was 69mph, and trip computer said I averaged 33 MPG....backed it up by checking with a calculator. Man that's impressive for a sports sedan weighing in at 3500lbs.

I've been reading some of the threads complaining about bad gas mileage. I'm frankly astounded how efficient these cars are. I have also been doing darn great on my commute to work 28mpg. 80% highway, 20% city.

I sold my Z-28 to get into this ride, and I really have been blown away by high level of refinement. Of course a Camaro is probably the least refined vehicle ever manufactured, but it had one hell of an engine-LS1. In my opinion best part of this car is the SOHC engine. Smooth, refined, and very efficient. Honda powertrains just kick butt.

The TL is a great ride, and I'm very pleased with the purchase.

mclarenf3387

LS1s get pretty good gas mileage as well when you drive them conservativly. Although you're right, Camaros are of the least refined vehicles out there. The TL interior is light years ahead of a Camaro, hell its lightyears ahead of my CL

Welcome to the Acura family

Lister00169

Congrats on the purchase and welcome to the TL family!

Excellent mpg; I have the 5AT and I get 30-32 hwy

SouthernBoy

Great, welcome aboard!

Last September, I started out on my vacation at noon on a Sunday, not my usual 4:30 AM, because of a pending hurricane. I gassed up, set my tripometer and my computer readout to zero, and began my first leg of my journey. It was 86 degrees outside and the traffic in my part of Virginia was moderate (normal) for a Sunday afternoon. We ran the A/C the entire trip, speeds were from around 62 to 78 MPH, with most of the mileage running around 74 - 78 MPH for this first leg.

When I stopped for fuel, I parked my TL on a spot that appeared to have the same slope as when I had filled up back home. For my efforts, I managed 33.94 MPG.

Oh, I have an '04 with manual transmission and Nav. And my to and from work mileage in the summer months averages the the 27 MPG range with the colder months showing in the 25 MPG range.

Adobeman

Dang ! That's good. I do a lot of highway driving but get 25-26 on average. Which I think is good given a 3.2L. If I reset the trip computer on the highway I get 33-34 but that quickly dips over the next few days as I resume a normal mix of roads.

Actuary

Highway is great for TL., city kills TL.

I had mustang before and I say camaro and mustang are about the same car and same function.

Ken1997TL

Good job..

The J series really shines on the highway... around town its pretty mediocre in terms of fuel economy.

Actuary

Actually what I noticed so far is

Bigger motors tend to be accurate on City EPA figure while
high-revving smaller motors eat more gas in city than EPA numbers.

I think it's because every stop, I have to push engine to about 4000RPM to get same acceleration as I did with bigger motor(which I only pushed up to around 2500-3000).

On the highway, big old pushrod american V6 or V8 eats more gas definitely. Honda shines on highway by eating far less gas than EPA figure.

bluenoser

I completely agree with your findings and I've often said the TL is the best engine/transmission combination for power, smoothness, refinement and economy I have ever seen. I also relate to your comments on the Z28. Mine is the LT1 6sp and as good as the TL is, there's no mistaking the difference in the slam in the back acceleration the Z delivers.
One more interesting point is my Z is 11 years old now (bought new) and it has been completely trouble free - not bad from such a crude piece. I've had 3 TLs and none of them can lay claim to that record - but they are still great refined rides.

waynewarrior

Bluenoser,
No doubt I miss the Z-28. The T-56 6-speed and LT1/LS1 were the backbone for a modern muscle car. It was the only reason you could tolerate such lack of refinement, but man talk about awesome capability.

I'm sure the Honda Powertrain Engineers could design a real show stopper if they got the green light to build a V-8. As you can tell I'm pretty blown away with the J-Series V-6...not sure there is a better balance of performance and efficiency anywhere. One drive was all it took.
Waynewarrior

bluenoser

I think GM could also do a good job as well. Caught an update from the Detroit car show and GM had a prototype new Camaro. It was modern retro with 400HP - I think there was a Challanger proto there as well - perhaps a rebirth of the muscle/pony car is near.

bar2v

I also have been absolutely amazed at my highway mileage. On my last road trip of 498 miles, I averaged 62 mph at 32 mpg over the course of 7:56 hours. Not bad for such a roomy car. Now if I could only solve Northern Virginia traffic...

gurneyeagle

I've been amazed by the mileage too.

With the car having less than 200 miles, I did a 1,000 mile roundtrip from N.O. to Dallas . At an average speed of 70 mph (all interstate), my mpg was 33! I was blown away.

Combine that type of mileage with the big tank, and I'm good for 500+ miles per tank with a huge cushion. This car is awesome for road trips.