Fuel Economy

[Jem_hadar]

Originally Posted by static808

additonally, short trips within the city (stop n go) absolutely KILL mpg, since the engine is basically running cold the entire time. if this is your driving situation, below average mpg almost cannot be avoided, unfortunately...

--B

Thatd be much of many of my tanks, in small town driving, to and from work, lunch times, trips to the grocery stores or to restaurants for dinner, to friends houses.

all short, 5-10 min trips, and then back again.


Plus, when I do have 75% of tanks based on highway driving, im often speeding at 100km on hwy 26, or 100-140km on the 400 or 404 hwys, so that kills my MPG to.

I guess I just tell myself, well, my MPG may be bad (bc of the way I chose to drive), but if I'd gone w/ another car, it would just be WORSE still.

When i think of it like that, it doesnt bother me

[swng]

Originally Posted by Jem_hadar

Thatd be much of many of my tanks, in small town driving, to and from work, lunch times, trips to the grocery stores or to restaurants for dinner, to friends houses.

all short, 5-10 min trips, and then back again.


Plus, when I do have 75% of tanks based on highway driving, im often speeding at 100km on hwy 26, or 100-140km on the 400 or 404 hwys, so that kills my MPG to.

I guess I just tell myself, well, my MPG may be bad (bc of the way I chose to drive), but if I'd gone w/ another car, it would just be WORSE still.

When i think of it like that, it doesnt bother me

Well said, well said.

[dansides]

i have 3 echos 4dr auto i can get between 38 2 44 miles to gal on a 115 mi rd trip my yaris got 33.8 avg 55 miles a hour i have the scan gauge that i use on all in town about 25 mpg yaris echo 30 just not what i expected

[Jem_hadar]

Originally Posted by dansides

i have 3 echos 4dr auto i can get between 38 2 44 miles to gal on a 115 mi rd trip my yaris got 33.8 avg 55 miles a hour i have the scan gauge that i use on all in town about 25 mpg yaris echo 30 just not what i expected

^^ I *think* I got what you're saying (kinda really hard to follow).

You get about 25 MPG on your Yaris in town, but 30 MPG on your Echno in town? And you weren't expecting it to be that low? And arent happy about it?

Is your Echno really getting that much better MPG than your new Yaris.

Now THAT surprises me. (Older) Echos are pulling better MPG than (newer) Yarises?!?

[Jem_hadar]

Well, just did my MPG for a trip to cottage country.

And it appears I got freakin' 34 MPG ! WOW. I'm happy with that. It was mostly non 400-series hwy driving at around 100 km I think.

Another proof to myself I guess of how much my speed DOES affect my MPG.

The other tank before it was 1/2 in town and the rest was 400 driving, in which i got up to 130 km/h atleast, so it sucked and was 25 MPG.


There's my update for now.
Jem

[dansides]

thats right i was expecting about the same mpg the echo 2 have about 50000 miles the other 125000 miles yaris 1000 miles may be to early wait a see

[dansides]

www.fueleconomy.gov 3 dr auto yaris avg user mpg 34.7 fit auto 29.4 4 cylinder auto 28.2 prius 47.2 echo manuel 42.9 yaris sdn manuel 36.4 echo auto 36.8 more info

[mutatio]

3rd tank is the charm apparently. it's also toward the end of the breakin in period. i was at 2 bars when i filled up, bc I saw a good price. 35mpg!-about 70% city and 30% highway. woot!

[superjens]

Back down to 31.9 MPG with "regular" driving on this last tank. The previous last two tanks were spent carefully easing my way around town and on the highways sloooowwwly which only gave me 37 MPG tops.

[Yaris TTE JWRC]

damn, there's no way im going to read all the post on the thread, 25 pages, almost 1k post, noway.

[Racer X-8]

Yeah, and if you read it too fast, your pages per gallon will suffer for it.

In all seriousness, yeah, right, my mpg has dropped a bit... Probably due mainly to the cold weather. Still hanging in there at 35.8 mpg overall...

oh yeah... Miles and gallons are South Carolinian.

edit, ok swng VVVVV I'm post 904 then... http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/sho...&postcount=904 it's just not updated yet...

[swng]

I would like to make a suggestion to those of you, ladies and gentlemen, who regularly post mpg numbers on this thread i.e. consider to mention the post and page numbers of your last mpg report in your every future post about your fuel economy. Please see mine at Post #963, Page 65 for an example. This way it will be easier to keep track of everyone's fuel economy changes. Of course if everyone can report like superjens at Post #977, a few posts above, my suggested method of mpg reporting will not be necessary. However, I cannot expect everyone to do the same. I personally do not have the necessary knowhow. I have my own way though - http://www.gassavers.org/garage/viewgaslog/264.
Nice work, superjens.
Happy posting everyone!

[stuffy]

ouch, my mileage has taken a hit with this cold weather and mostly city driving.

i'm down to about 27 mpg on my last two tanks!



ouch.

[spkrman]

who's gonna get the 1000'th post? :)

[swng]

Originally Posted by spkrman

who's gonna get the 1000'th post? :)

It's still everyone's game. Let's see!

[eTiMaGo]

Things are looking better, either I messed up my calculations, or missed a tank, but I only had about 19mpg (200-220km on a tank) in the past, now I'm about at the same mileage, but with half a tank left

[superjens]

I'm definitely not going to get good numbers on this tank -- today alone I redlined it three times just to blow off steam. What can I say, I miss accelerating faster than a two legged turtle. :(

[Jem_hadar]

Got 27MPG US on my last tank.

Thats down from the 30, but up from the previous 2 of 25MPG.