Personal Best with MPG

[Sparcoboy]

Put my summer rims back on, new record: 53mpg :D

[killacam64]

Best ever was 48.9
Average in summer 40-43
Average winter 35-37
Worst ever 33

[Killchain]

avg. 36.9,but after today's fill up my all time high was 40.2. I have been more conscience of my speed on city freeways, and roads.

[randeez]

Best: 42.6
Average: 37-39
Worst: 33ish

2008 3dr mt, tires@45psi, 5w-20 syn oil, air filter changed monthly (i drive quite a bit of dirt roads) mostly highway around 70mph, a/c doesnt change mpg that much- i should probably also mention per tank i idle with a/c on for 1-2 hours- doing work, reading specs, hiding at job sites

and i finally ordered an ultra gauge to see if it'll help any

[derickveliz2]

Best 45.4 MPG (summer 90% highway)
worst 37 MPG (winter storm)
average 42.3 MPG (60% highway, 40% New England back roads)

D.

[mr_miles]

Just pulled 40.5. learning how to get it up there! aiming for 41 this tank :)

[Benedict]

My 08 manual hatch 100% stock drivetrain
With 17's and on coilovers
Mostly freeway with some city
aggressive driving gets 32mpg
Did a whole tank of gas granny shifting and max 65 on the freeway got 34mpg
ONCE when it was stock i got 39mpg but that was a fluke. It was usually between 34-37mpg then.

[edmscan]

I just achieved 615 km with 36.502 litres on my last fill. That works out to 47.5935 MPG Imperial or 39.6299 MPG US.

[Spidermandud]

Originally Posted by edmscan

I just achieved 615 km with 36.502 litres on my last fill. That works out to 47.5935 MPG Imperial or 39.6299 MPG US.

Was that mostly city or highway? that's about my max for around town driving/ highway mix. Was wondering if my car was keeping up with yours haha.

[edmscan]

Originally Posted by Spidermandud

Was that mostly city or highway? that's about my max for around town driving/ highway mix. Was wondering if my car was keeping up with yours haha.

I should have included that .... it was about 200 km highway / 415 km city.

[jay cobbs]

hi have the 2010 sedan with no real mods. got 44-45 mpg going to tahoe here in california. no real tricks. clean air filter use top gas like chevron or union 76. over in britian bp will do the trick. try to check if the pump has additives like ethyonal or non gas type fluids and avoid them. tire pressure may help. I use the 10 psi under max rule so you dont feal like your driving a cover wagon and hard stiff rides. if you have a auto, coast to stops over 50- 100 feet in front of you like a manual. take junk out of rear of the boot.can remove your spare if you have auto club for road brakedowns. plan all short roundabout trips at once start early if that helps avoid traffic.dont run all season tread tires if possable.keep speeds down to about 80 km or 55-60mph for us yanks.
all data from toyota and GM enginners say that speeds over 55 mph to just 65-70 mph can cause the engine to work at double the energy load 2x the gas rate just for that little gain in mph. its the wind force ( drag ) over the body that can triple with just that change in speed. google it mit gm and porsche have done tests with volvo and many others. hope that helped

[Spidermandud]

Sweet, we seem to have very similar mileage.

[edgardhe]

I took a road trip today and got 43.9mpg over 328 miles. Mostly highway and hardly any stopping. This is with two passengers and the a/c running the whole time. I kept my speed down to about 60, follow trucks (not too close, but within Mythbusters limits for improved mileage) whenever possible. I'm looking forward to a trip to Vermont next week to see if I can beat this trip.

[Hershey]

^ Manual or automatic ? ^

[edgardhe]

Automatic.

[edmscan]

I have recently been getting really good mileage ... in the city. I have achieved an average of 5.2 L/100 KM according to my ScanGauge which works out to 45.23 MPG US or 54.32 MPG IMPERIAL.

I am about 1/2 way thru my tank .. so it should be interesting what my mileage is in the current tank. Should be able to tell in the next week or so. I also recently got new tires .. so it could be interesting to see what that has done to my mileage.

[Hershey]

Which tires ? 39 is nothin' to sneeze at . Maybe you'll see an incease for F.E. at 1,000 miles or more . Keep us up to date .

[edmscan]

I got Hankook Optimo 4S "All Weather" tires. They are only available in Canada (and Europe I believe). There are videos on YouTube .. which show pretty good performance in winter. They are apparently better than all season tires during winter conditions.

I should note that they are designed to be left on the vehicle all year long .. similar to all season tires. They just are designed to be somewhat better in winter in particular than all season tires. They are similar to Nokian WR G2 tires I understand. We have long winters here ... so winter performance is much more important than it may be to some others.