Just a heads up though, I got 16.9MPG on my last fillup... that includes two 55 minute freeway trips and a lot of city driving. 201 miles cost me 11.1 gallons of gas.
I have to stop driving it so hard...
This is with a 1999 Impreza Wagon.
WTF? My 2009 WRX gets 21.6mpg when I drive it HARD over the course of an entire 15 gallon tank. When I drive it really easy I can still get about 23 or 24 mpg. When its was new, running stock tires and everything, I could get 28mpg if I went easy and could average 25mpg over a tank if I kept driving easy. My buddies 2002 OBS with a 2.5 SOHC, 3 people and every spare inch of space between filled with luggage, got around 38 mpg on a trip to Florida. We even calculated 650miles on one 15gal tank, but I don't have proof. We did about 75mph the whole way and only slowed for tolls and traffic jams. We made it down in about 31 hours and back in about 26 or 27 hours. Subies I have driven seem to reach peak efficiency at 75mph.
As far as the drive by wire thing goes, until this thread, I thought I had a throttle cable on my 09 WRX. I notice no difference in throttle response and I would say that the response is faster on the WRX than on any of my families other vehicles. The WRX beats the 97 Grand Am, the 97 Cavalier, the 2001 Jeep Cherokee, and 94 Jeep Cherokee, the 1982 Chevy Conversion Van, the 1996 Dodge 2500 Pickup, my old 1991 Jeep Cherokee and the plow truck. It also beats my Cousin's 2002 Legacy GT, her Boyfriends 97 OBS, my buddies 2002 OBS. This is all my opinion after having driven them all BTW, not actual testing, LOL.
Also, my first car was a 1987 Subaru GL-10 Turbo. But there was a hole in the manifold so the turbo did nothing for the car and it sounded like a whining mac truck. But it take me as fast as I wanted to go until I lost my license getting caught doing 73 in a 55, 2 weeks shy of my 2 year license anniversary. I think I lost it for 60 days though now that I think about it. The car came from a junk yard, I paid $100 for it and was going to use it to as a parts car to fix my parents old 87 Loyale, but found that the GL-10 Turbo was in better shape even though it had a nissan sunroof fiberglassed on to it, and had broken front and rear window glass and dented up hood and trunk. We did some body work, took the hood and trunk from the loyale and repainted the car with our own equipment in the driveway of the house. The car had been attacked with an Ice pick because it was owned by some chick that kept cheating on her boyfriend and every time her caught her he smashed up her car with an Ice pick. It happened to the poor car about 3 times. The last time she was in it, which is why it was so badly mangled without being in an accident. My understanding is, he caught her cheating on him in the back seat while he was going to smash up the car again anyway, which made him more pissed off, lol. I scrubbed the POOP out of that backseat though, ha ha ha.
