Consumer Reports rates best and worst cars of 2012

[carolinablue]

1) The reporter from Consumer Reports would seem to be one who likes to plant a fat butt in a large bloat boat.
2) ConsumerReports, in its day had the Neon as one of its top rated cars.
3) The gas milage they rate the Yaris at is completely off. Consumer Reports says 32 mpg. I get 36 mpg in heavy traffic with the AC going full blast, 39 mpg town and country and 45 mpg on the open highway.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by carolinablue

1) The reporter from Consumer Reports would seem to be one who likes to plant a fat butt in a large bloat boat.
2) ConsumerReports, in its day had the Neon as one of its top rated cars.
3) The gas milage they rate the Yaris at is completely off. Consumer Reports says 32 mpg. I get 36 mpg in heavy traffic with the AC going full blast, 39 mpg town and country and 45 mpg on the open highway.

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[jpmck03]

Originally Posted by Consumer Reports

One redeeming quality is its excellent fuel economy of 32 mpg overall.

Opens a new tab and checks Fuelly.com

Number of times I got around 32 mpg: 2
Number of times I got less than 32 mpg: 1
Number of times I got more than 32 mpg: 49

Yeah, Consumer Reports, you must have done a real good job testing the Yaris...

[fnkngrv]

Originally Posted by jpmck03

Opens a new tab and checks Fuelly.com

Number of times I got around 32 mpg: 2
Number of times I got less than 32 mpg: 1
Number of times I got more than 32 mpg: 49

Yeah, Consumer Reports, you must have done a real good job testing the Yaris...

I concur. Even being boosted and having my AFR set aggressively I avg 33/34mpg. Hell, even when I do my land speed run weekends I still stay at above 30mpg and that is with pushing it over 110mph for a total of 7-15 miles on those weekends.

[jpmck03]

Originally Posted by fnkngrv

I concur. Even being boosted and having my AFR set aggressively I avg 33/34mpg. Hell, even when I do my land speed run weekends I still stay at above 30mpg and that is with pushing it over 110mph for a total of 7-15 miles on those weekends.

What's worse is those two sub-32 mpg numbers are: 31.67 and 31.92. And that's from 2.5 years of driving without a care in the world and just being amazed that I got such good mileage. Now that I'm paying attention to how I drive, I'm getting close to 40 mpg. And that's without doing all of that crazy hypermiling stuff!

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by jpmck03

Opens a new tab and checks Fuelly.com

Number of times I got around 32 mpg: 2
Number of times I got less than 32 mpg: 1
Number of times I got more than 32 mpg: 49

Yeah, Consumer Reports, you must have done a real good job testing the Yaris...

. My figures are even more pronounced....I = about 9 times that many tanks and the ones under 35 mpg combined = about one percent.