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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy View Post
Honestly all of the modern Porsche sports cars get pretty respectable MPG, I wouldn’t consider any of them as gas guzzlers.
The 21.5mpg vs 25mpg of the Boxster vs Outback was just a part of the equation. The boxster requires 93 octane while the outback takes 87 octane, so the price is about 75% as well as the outback getting about 16% better fuel economy).

Yeah, my Box-S isn't bad. I'm sure that I could probably squeeze it up into the 23mpg range if I tried. It's a shame that a regular boxster gets much better mileage than a Box-S, and then a corvette gets better mileage than both. I'm sure the vette gets high numbers because on the highway it's loping along at 1200-1500 rpms in top gear. My boxster in 6th at 83 revs at 3400 rpms, so I'm not exactly loping.

But then I didn't get the car for it's fuel economy.
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