manual vs. automatic

[sickpuppy1]

Originally Posted by KrazyDawg

On an automatic, with max psi 44 and a 130 mile round daily commute, I'm averaging 35-36 MPG. Note: My commute to work uses a different route than the route on the way back to avoid paying toll twice. The best I've had is 38 MPG and that was by doing 60 MPH on the 70 mile one-way and about 70 MPH on the 60 mile return trip home. I don't have a ScanGauge.

Interesting, because my 2010 sedan does 38+ normally, 75 highway 25% city. I have got one tank at 40 and one at 41.4 mpg. Have my tires at 40 and I do 70-75 on the way to and from work. Heck, last weekend I went to a concert in St Louis and was running late. Did avg 80mph with the AC on and still did 38.8 for the trip there, around town driving while there and back to Columbia, Mo before I filled up. The rest of the trip home was around 75 and all week to and from work and that was my 41.4 tank. One thing I do notice is this car like Quick Trip gas much better than Philips 66. I mean a noticeable difference in mileage. 2-3 mpg! I had to gas up at Phillips in town this weekend and the gauge is 2 bars down at 120 miles which is not cool and I had one tank at 35mpg which was also Phillips. My Civic was just the opposite, it did better on Phillips than QT. Weird stuff......