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07-24-2012, 01:13 PM
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why no AFM on the ZL1?
..could've avoided the GGT, no?(autos, anyway)
 ..skip shift eliminator to the rescue. 
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07-24-2012, 02:32 PM
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Drives: 2023 Black ZL1 Auto Join Date: Oct 2009
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The auto already starts in 2nd gear and given the hefty weight of the car VVT might not have been enough to save either the manual or the auto from the tax. Even driven nicely I only get about 14 in the city. I pay a GGT every time I fill the car up, which is penalty enough instead of having an additional tax levied on the car.
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07-24-2012, 05:46 PM
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Drives: 2012 ZL1 #165 Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Switzerland (no longer Houston, TX) :-(
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Remember the video from Al O. from VIR?
fuel economy was around point #23 on the wishlist of the ZL1 buyers! rofl... In all seriousness, it would be nice to avoid it but this did not stop me from buying one! |
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07-24-2012, 06:00 PM
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Drives: GM products Join Date: Apr 2009
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Why should the ZL1 have AFM? So the ZL1 gets to share the A6 SS's pain? I don't think if people are throwing down $58k for a ZL1 that they'll care at all about a couple grand gas guzzler tax.
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07-24-2012, 06:04 PM
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Drives: 2011 2SS/RS/A6 cammed-n-whippled Join Date: Oct 2008
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If it did have it, owners would bitch about it and try and figure out how to get rid of it without voiding their warranty.
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07-24-2012, 06:27 PM
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Drives: 2012 Ashen Gray ZL1 Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Glen Carbon, IL
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I am also not worried about the extra few bucks it cost me in fuel economy. If that was an issue I would have bought a Volt.
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07-24-2012, 10:00 PM
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 Drives: 2001 Firebird Formula, 2011 Triumph Join Date: Apr 2012
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Not familiar with that acronym, AFM?
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07-24-2012, 10:03 PM
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I used to be Dragoneye...
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AND.....this is a super-muscle car...what's fuel economy? 
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07-24-2012, 10:05 PM
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Drives: 1986 Camaro IROC-Z; 2012 Camaro ZL1 Join Date: Jun 2011
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Active Fuel Management |
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07-24-2012, 10:08 PM
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Are you kidding?? AFM on a performance car...
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07-24-2012, 10:10 PM
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Drives: 2017 1SS Blue Join Date: Mar 2010
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Active Fuel Management is only on automatics and "turns off" four of your cylinders in L99 cars when cruising; if you have a manual transmission LS3 then you don't have AFM.
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07-25-2012, 06:22 AM
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Drives: '98 Camaro Z28, '06 Z06 Join Date: Feb 2011
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I got the same gas mileage after I tuned out AFM on my SS. My cruising rpm dropped a bit. Still think the auto SS should have a LS3 option.
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07-25-2012, 09:16 AM
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Drives: '12 ZL1 #1011 Join Date: May 2012
Location: South Weber, UT
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No AFM!!!!
For what the car does, I am perfectly okay with the mileage. Its better than my 02 Supercharged Frontier which has been my daily driver for 7 years so no complaints here. I get about 16-17 on average combo highway/city driving. I take the motorcycle when I want good mileage...GG tax is a joke anyway.  If they would uniformly apply the law to every vehicle on the road instead of punishing high performance car drivers, of which there is a smaller number, I wonder what would happen to SUV/truck sales...?I wish gas was still what it was when I started driving in high school. Less than $1/gallon was nice. |
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07-25-2012, 11:24 AM
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Drives: 2001 Firebird Formula, 2011 Triumph Join Date: Apr 2012
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