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Vacuum Bags
Just finished a 6000 one month trip with my wife in an ftype R convertible. We took one small soft sided bag that fit into the square well in trunk and put the rest of iur stuff in a number of vacuum bags that had zip lock tops and one way valves - put in the clothes and sit on the bag. It worked amazingly well and we couldn't believe how much stuff we were able to fit into the trunk. We bought some stuff along the way and shipped some clothes home in order to allow for the added stuff
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Just finished a 6000 one month trip with my wife in an ftype R convertible. We took one small soft sided bag that fit into the square well in trunk and put the rest of iur stuff in a number of vacuum bags that had zip lock tops and one way valves - put in the clothes and sit on the bag. It worked amazingly well and we couldn't believe how much stuff we were able to fit into the trunk. We bought some stuff along the way and shipped some clothes home in order to allow for the added stuff
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I am jealous - I am averaging 16mpg in the city for short commutes and 22mpg on the highway. I'm surprised because My TT, another V6, gets it's best mileage at 85mph. I assumed a real sports car would similarly improve with speed, clearly not.
p.s. I tried snow/ice mode and it was like magic - it turned my car into a Lexus
p.s. I tried snow/ice mode and it was like magic - it turned my car into a Lexus
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I wouldn't know.
Life of car:
High: 22.4
Low: 14.9
Average: 18.7
Of course, all I ever do is work, so that's pretty much 100% commuting and errands. I need to take Judas Priest's advice and "head out to the highway."
Life of car:
High: 22.4
Low: 14.9
Average: 18.7
Of course, all I ever do is work, so that's pretty much 100% commuting and errands. I need to take Judas Priest's advice and "head out to the highway."
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Okay so now that I have had the R longer, I can definitely say the mileage I get is far off than jaguar quotes. It is essentially impossible to get over 10.5mpg in San Francisco, even when driving like a grandpa. (No offense to the grandpas on this forum). Spirited highway driving puts me between 15-20mpg. And if I go into boring grandpa mode I can get 26mpg. Overall in averaging about 15mpg. I mean it definitely doesn't make me love the car less. I was just expecting and overall average of 18-19mpg. Anyways love the car and I will continue to drive it spirited, else what is the point of having such an awesome car.
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it's a shame that the computer read out is 2mpg higher than actual, modern cars really should be more up to date with the onboard instruments. Highest my base v6 ever read in my 300miles of owning the car has been 28.3 on highway cruise control. typically I run into traffic so I was lucky that day.
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