Originally posted by guitarman19853:
Originally posted by Faze Away:
First off, this isn't a stab directly at you, but moreso an attempt to knock some sense into the people who think they are saving oodles of money.
There is a flaw in your logic. In order for this to be a true comparison, you must take into account the MPG drop you'll suffer from. We'll call it .5% as a safe (possibly even low) estimate.
So let's do the math.
We'll say an SVT gets 23 MPG on premium, so 99.5% of that is just shy of 22 MPG on regular.
Now take the 14.5 gallon tank, effectively your losing usefulness of .5% of that. So your 14.5 gallons is getting your the same distance that 13.7 gallons of premium would get you.
Now for the price per distance comparison.
Regular 2.40
Premium 2.60
14.5 * 2.40 = 34.80
13.7 * 2.60 = 35.62
0.82 more to use premium based on a low .5% MPG drop.
Someone would have to be out of their mind to put their engine in possible danger only to save $42.64 a year.
how do you know there will be a drop in MPG? people say that but from what i know (from a previous discussion about this on here) noone has actually tried regular in an SVT and done an exact comparison on the difference. Has anyone done this? Yes i agree that there would be a loss in performance... but that doesnt mean that it will lose fuel economy
Because as cheap as most CEG'ers are, the SVT owners still aren't dumb enough to run less than premium fuel. 
Mark
2000 Black CSVT
3.0L Hybrid - 206fwhp & 195fwtq
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