Originally Posted By: Nick R
Originally Posted By: R2d2
Originally Posted By: Nick R
Originally Posted By: R2d2
The only real answer is do drive the the two cars, but try equally equipped cars. The Cruze Eco does come in auto you know, in fact I'm sure they sell more autos.
True they do, but the Eco Manual gets MUCH better mileage than the Automatic. Manual is known to exceed 40mpg easily, the auto averages around 30, or less.
Interesting the Eco auto on the Chevy website is rated at exactly the same highway as the manual. I find it hard to believe there that far off
The Eco manual is actually rated 42, and the auto is 39, but real life mpg are much different. Sciphi has averaged well over 40mpg with his manual, and I'm averageing 27, 28 with my auto, but I'm not doing much highway driving.. My dad just drove 530 miles from NY to Norfolk, and doing 70, he averaged 36 in his '11 LT
Nick, here's a link to my Fuelly:
http://www.fuelly.com/driver/drcruze/cruze
As you can see, in mostly highway driving I've averaged about 44 MPG lifetime. I also run premium (10% corn juiced 93 octane around me) since it helps with power and driveability.
I'm not worried about the turbocharged port-injected Family 0 Ecotec in my Cruze. GM has had other FI Ecotecs around for years. If there were horror stories to be heard, we would have heard them by now.
With a 3/4 full tank of gas, a load of recyclables, and me in the car, my Cruze weighs about 3200 lbs per the scale at the local county transfer station. So it does weigh less than other Cruzes.