Yaris MPG falls to 31 (auto) 32 (man) under new guidelines

[Vanderkitten]

Anyhow... who really cares about the new numbers? The mileage on the window sticker is not accurate. They come up with those numbers by driving the car on... a DYNOMOMETER!! They don't even DRIVE the car to get the MPG, that's why they had to change the numbers.

It would be interesting to see how the full-size SUV's faired... I'm going to look real quick... Suburban lost 1 MPG... so now you see who funded the change. "Those little cars don't get the mileage they claimed! IT was all a lie! They're unsafe, and they blow-up when you look at them funny from your SUV!"

The other thing that's funny is the fact the gas gauges in all modern cars are heavily skewed to make the first half of the tank more efficient than the last half. The idea is that you THINK you're getting better mileage because you've gone 200 miles on half a tank, then all the sudden you're empty at 300? "I must have been driving harder the last half of the tank." No, the first half of the tank was 6.3 gallons, the last "half" is 3.7.