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If the manual says put in premium fuel, in a turbo car, you MUST put in premium fuel. Your car has a detonation sensor, and it will know when you don't put high octane fuel in because the fuel/air mixture will prematurely detonate. This is VERY bad for your engine, but your computer will sense the detonation and pull back ignition timing to protect itself. This will result in poor performance and poor fuel efficiency-the computer will try to prevent detonation by throwing too much fuel into the cylinder as a means of self defense and by restricting the amount of "boost" the turbo is allowed to make.

Turbo cars MUST have high octane fuel unless they are tuned for low octane. Your vehicle's service manual will tell you what fuel to put in. My manual says I must run 91 octane, and in parts of New Mexico, I could only get 90 octane off the highway. My car ran like hell because of it....
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