Fuel Economy

[swng]

That is 50+ mpg(imp)! I think that reflects the fact that you drove 95% highway. Good numbers anyway!

[jcove]

I'm at a little over 6,000 kms since November and I'm getting roughly 600kms per tank of mixed highway and city driving. That's also driving kind of hard. I could get better if I didn't have a lead foot. I usually drive about 120 - 130 accross the 407. I have to say I still love this car!!

[swng]

For this tank, I have had a lot of city driving and have still achieved 146 km before losing my first fuel gauge bar and 222 km before losing the second.
I will be vacationing for about five weeks starting next week(Tue) and hence will most likely not be able to post. I hope fellow members can keep on posting their results on this thread. I am glad I have started it. Please help keep it alive!
Wish you all well!
Safe, happy and economical motoring!!!

[Ron]

i was getting roughly 500km on a 35L fill fairly consistantly during december to march. my last couple of tanks i have gotten about ~600km on 38-40L. i drive probably 80 percent in the city, 20 percent highway. odo is at 8500km's so far

[swng]

Thanks Ron. You get slightly more than 40.3 mpg(imp) or roughly 33.6 mpg(US). Your numbers are similar to mine. Considering that you have driven a lot in city traffic, the result is not bad. I guess yours is a standard shift, right?
I have just achieved 346 km with slightly more than half a tank(four fuel gauge bars remaining). A lot of city driving this time.
I will be travelling on Tue and this is going to be a five week vacation. So, I may not be able to post results any more for the time being. I estimate that by the time I come back, many fellow members should already have broken in their engines and many good numbers would probably have been reported here.

[Ron]

i am automatic baby! lazy man's dream

[Ziv]

good stuff. Thanks for posting.

here's mine
510km / 35Litre....

It's 102.5 this morning around GTA. For those of you live around GTA, always fill your gas after 10:30pm before 12:00am midnight. that's when the price drop all the way from 90.5~92.5 for last few days.

[kumquat]

Hi everyone,

I just filled up with 38.5L after going through my first tank in 542km. So, I guess that would be about 7.1L/100km. Not too bad for the first tank, I don't think. I'd say I drove about 25% in town, 75% highway.

[Search]

I was very intrigued by the Yaris Hatch and really wished I could have waited to get a new car till it came out but my aging Civic had other plans. However on to the core point Fuel Mileage.

I now have an 06 Acura RSX –S Type which by now it has about 12,000. I like the car, but feel a bit unsettled by the fuel mileage, I feel like a glutton drinking all this gas driving a “sporty car” with a surfeit of horsepower.
However when I see people posting up mileage in the low 30’s I don’t feel so bad.

What happened to serious economy?

My old 93 Civic Si Hatch with over the course of 100,000+ Miles (94K-210K) would get 34 MPG day in and day out and I spanked her like the bad girl she was. Highway cruise speeds in the mid 80’s (that’s MPH not KPH), hell I have even seen high 30’s on extended cruise control highway trips.
I was hoping for easy 35 MPG+ from a Yaris. Not to lose horsepower and fit and finish (VS the old SI) and struggle to get the same MPG.

Just for comparison sake after I started monitoring this thread I decided to track my RSX’s “gluttonous” fuel use. I get a surprising 28MPG in 90% around town driving. Plenty of visits to the fun side of the tach with no effort to drive for mileage and quite frankly I am usually in a hurry and don’t waste time dawdling coming off of lights, and am bad about driving fast.
I took the RSX for a multi hundred mile delinquent run in the mountain spending extended time in the 6-8.5K coming off corners pretty hard and only dropped to 26 MPG.

That aside I am not happy getting sub 30MPG but to go to a Yaris and get only marginal economy improvements while taking a drastic hit on performance and vehicle dynamics quality just doesn’t make sense.

I am hoping when more Yaris are being driven in the US and we start to get reports on US mileage numbers then we can get a better picture of what the Yaris is really capable of
(this is not a slight on our northern neighbors, but I am unsure what sort of gas formulations they use compared to what I get down at the local jiffy mart fuel stop).

So fellow southerners please report in those economy numbers.

[foober]

All I know is the higher gas prices go the more unhappy some folks with lesser gas milage will be. Its getting pretty interesting at the gas pumps now listening to people complaining. THey think its bad now. Wait a couple months to a year. Gonna be very interesting.

[daq421]

Originally Posted by Search

What happened to serious economy?

...but to go to a Yaris and get only marginal economy improvements while taking a drastic hit on performance and vehicle dynamics quality just doesn’t make sense.

I would ask you to define vehicle dynamics...? And quality? This Yaris's fit and finish are excellent.. but in a utilitarian fashion. It's a perfect example of form follows function.. I wanted a compact exterior with a roomy interior, that had all the amenities (P/S, P-Locks, ABS, Cruise, good sound, and air bags, that got better than 30mpg. Well, thats the Yaris.. It's not a sports car, nor is it supposed to be. It's a road-trip, commmuter car and at that it excels.

When the Yaris is viewed for what it is, it's darn near perfect.
-Peter

[ketel0ne]

At over 4600 miles I am now getting 38mpg+ on every tank and on many 60 mile commute segments breaking 41mpg with no issue at all. Air on or off. It is also an Automatic. Doing the speed limit seems to be the biggest contributor.

[El Kapitan]

Originally Posted by Ziv

good stuff. Thanks for posting.

here's mine
510km / 35Litre....

It's 102.5 this morning around GTA. For those of you live around GTA, always fill your gas after 10:30pm before 12:00am midnight. that's when the price drop all the way from 90.5~92.5 for last few days.

just noticing this post from about 9 years ago. gas has made its way back to this price again. what a crazy ride it's been.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by El Kapitan

just noticing this post from about 9 years ago. gas has made its way back to this price again. what a crazy ride it's been.

. Nine years ago gas may have been the same price here near Houston that it is now here near Houston....but that is a fair bit lower than it was in California nine years ago .

[shtanna]

Hello all. I just go mine on Saturday. So far on my first tank I've gotten 440Km, with 2 bars remaining. I think that's not too bad, considering I haven't broken her in. That's with 65/35 hwy/city driving. How far can I go on the last bar? Does it flash immediately?

[NickNickNick]

On my last highway trip of 1100 kms, I averaged about 710km/tank...which is down from about 800km/ tank. I do need an oil change however (6800km) and my PSI was down to 28 after the trip...these two things are the most crucial in great fuel economy...always check your tires before, during, and after long road trips!

[stuffy]

yeah, it flashes right away, but you still have about 5 to 7 litres of fuel left on that last bar, maybe more

ask swng how far you can go on that last bar, he would be able to tell you

[why?]

lol, of course he almost ran out too.