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Step 1
Avoid making engine modifications that make your car go faster. Engine modifications (i.e. turbo adjustments) are very sporty and are good for show and show only. Adding these features to your car has its downside: these features eat your gas mileage alive. Adding turbo adjustments on most cars can decrease your gas mileage by at least 5 mpg (could be more for some makes and models). It is recommended that you either not make these modifications at all or make them on a car that you don't have to take out to work and/or school every day.
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Step 2
Never floor your accelerator. Pretty much all sports cars have one thing in common: they are all built for performance. One thing that crosses the mind of almost anyone who owns a performance vehicle is to floor the accelerator. This is a big out if you want to save on gas mileage. Flooring the accelerator of a muscle car could cost you a whopping $3.00 for every 3-5 seconds you leave your accelerator floored. That may not seem like a lot, but when you consider the average muscle car owner never does this just once per day. Many floor their muscle cars an average of 3-5 times per day costing them nearly 15 bucks on average that’s almost three gallons of gas per day (if you do that every day). The advice here is, never floor your car even if you have a full tank of gas.
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Step 3
Never tow anything with a sports car. A very limited amount of sports cars come with towing packages (some people just purchase a hitch and tow things with their car); this is also a big out when it comes to the glorified gas dollar. Towing items behind your sports car can not only lead to premature transmission damages, but it can also damage your budget when it comes time to gas up. It is recommended that you leave the towing to the vehicles that do it best: the trucks.
