Mileage when Driving Like NOT a Maniac HumbleBrag

[Smokescreen]

Corolla - past 8 tanks, 42 mpg US, max ever was 48mpgUS
LeSabre - 36 mpg US regularly when I drive it..when wife drives it...29/30 mpg US
Sierra - 17.5 mpg US...towing...arrg..like 10 mpg US

 

[Tomioka]

With 50/50 city/freeway driving the highest I get was 15.6MPG in my 02 Silverado 5.3L with two passengers, hauling air in the bed and pulling an invisible trailer.

 

[HTSS_TR]

Originally Posted By: bdcardinal
I am averaging 14.5 with mostly highway. If I drive it conservatively I get maybe 16-16.5 average.

Up until your post I feel very bad for the mileage I got from my E430 and S2000. Seeing my E430 with 19 MPG average and 20-22 MPG average for S2000 are a little better than yours, I feel a big boulder just felt off my back.

 

[MCompact]

I average @26 mpg in the 2er- almost all suburban driving.

 

[Andrew1972]

The Honda v6 is an incredible motor despite its age. the only real knock is the timing belt.

I love the engine in my Acura MDX.

 

[Nick1994]

I've been getting 24.5 mpg in my Camry, that's A/C on full time. It's more lik 26-26.5 mpg in the winter. Highway driving is well into the 30s.

I drive it hard though.

 

[surfstar]

This was to & from surfing one evening. Some stop & go traffic, otherwise I just kept it at 65mph. (Car is optimistic, though, and likely only got 42-43 in reality. EPA rated for 36 hwy.)

Also has 66 cu ft of cargo space

and its not a diesel even! (Golf Sportwagen 1.8T 5spd)

 

[E365]

I keep breaking 50 MPG with my Focus 1.0. And people claim the new, smaller turbo engines don't get any better MPG

 

[DeafBrad]

Originally Posted By: supton
Wife used to get 36 in her Camry, not sure what now, as I put on those RT43's and they are not LRR tires. I'd drive it and get 27-28. Hers is all rural, I'd be on the highway. Apparently drag increases the faster you go...

I've been getting 20 in my truck (EPA 19) last several tanks, and I haven't been trying either (60-70mph). Pure highway and just sane driving.


55 mph or 60 mph seems to be the magic number. Over that, the wind resistance really hurts gas mileage.

 

[andrewp1998]

43 avg in warmer months and 36 avg in winter. i drive about 60 mph max on highway

 

[supton]

Originally Posted By: DeafBrad
Originally Posted By: supton
Wife used to get 36 in her Camry, not sure what now, as I put on those RT43's and they are not LRR tires. I'd drive it and get 27-28. Hers is all rural, I'd be on the highway. Apparently drag increases the faster you go...

I've been getting 20 in my truck (EPA 19) last several tanks, and I haven't been trying either (60-70mph). Pure highway and just sane driving.


55 mph or 60 mph seems to be the magic number. Over that, the wind resistance really hurts gas mileage.


Ironically I think I get the best mpg in my Tundra in 5th gear, not 6th gear. 1,500rpm in 5th is about 48mph vs 60mph in 6th. The drop in mph and thus wind drag overcomes the engine making more revolutions per mile, it seems; and climbing hills in 5th at that speed is less drama than 6th (really have to feather the throttle in 6th to prevent unlock).

But yeah, that velocity squared really starts to pop up around 60 or so.

 

[andrewp1998]

mpg is still great with all the miles I have

 

[gman2304]

My 2005 5.3 Chevy 1500 truck averages about 15-15.5 mpg.

 

[demarpaint]

My EVIC is telling me 19.1 mpg in my 2016 Rubicon, mixed driving. A/T 4.10 rear. I haven't bothered to calculate it the old fashioned way, which will most likely be less.

 

[Vikas]

That 34 was a fluke. I am barely breaking 32 these days :-(