The Official "What's Your Gas Mileage?" Thread

star_deceiver · Post by **star_deceiver** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:28 pm

361.6kms on 24.6/L - 6.8L/100kms
488.5kms on 29.9/L - 6.1L/100kms

Caretaker · Post by **Caretaker** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:34 pm

41 mpg in all highway driving with the cruise control on and driving at/near the speed limit. Way to go Corolla engine!!!
When I wanted to make up time and drove 60-80 mph, I got 35 mpg.
When I did a combination of stuck in commuter traffic and using the cruise control when the highway cleared up, I got 37 mpg.
I was thrilled to get the 41. In your face Hyundai advertising!!

star_deceiver · Post by **star_deceiver** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 6:38 pm

688kms on 44L - 6.3L/100kms or 37mpg

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:11 pm

My latest fillup:

06.15.12 - 29.1 mpg - 50% city/50% highway

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:11 pm

My mom's latest fillup:

06.16.12 - 27.4 mpg - 50% city/50% highway

ponta2147 · Post by **ponta2147** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:11 am

33.6 mpg from Chicago to just outside Indianapolis!!! My new record!!

Not bad for half the trip needing to go 70-75mph, and needing air conditioning (though I turned it off for hills and for acceleration).

We shall see how this tank (Indianapolis to wherever east of Dayton I need to stop for gas tomorrow) fares!

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:30 pm

ponta2147 wrote:33.6 mpg from Chicago to just outside Indianapolis!!! My new record!!

Awesome Michelle! Only .3 behind my best of 33.9. I have a feeling you'll end up bettering me at some point in the next few weeks

!

ponta2147 · Post by **ponta2147** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 5:30 am

I actually did hit 33.9 on the next tank- going between 68-73, coasting down the big hills and turning off the air going up the hills or accelerating. Haven't come anywhere near there since, mostly because I was in WAY too much of a hurry after that point (nine hours of driving a day three times will do that to you

) At least I don't have to drive that much again until July 6th!

OmniDimensional · Post by **OmniDimensional** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 6:45 pm

25 mpg last fill, 90% in town on an 03 AWD. Thats after my K&N CAI install. Was doing closer to 22mpg before. This is with VERY spirited driving

star_deceiver · Post by **star_deceiver** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:40 pm

596kms on 44L - 7.4L/100kms or 31.7mpg.

09vGT · Post by **09vGT** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:36 pm

29 MPG. 100% highway going 75 MPH on the way back from Chicago. Car loaded down and 4 total occupants.

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 4:08 am

Wow! It's been 3 weeks since I got gas last!

07.08.12 - 28.4 mpg - 50% city/50% highway

tpollauf · Post by **tpollauf** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 12:54 pm

Well I was able to finally join the "400 mile" club with my 09 2.4l engine

Drove 411 miles and consumed 11.6 gallons = 35.4 mpg

This is my third best tank ever !!!

areles · Post by **areles** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:12 pm

Going to the Erie meet at posted speeds (+ 2 or 3 mph over) and using A/C, I averaged 31.85 mpg. I ticked off some people by keeping revs at about 2000 when accelerating.

Coming back from Erie at posted speeds (+ 2 to 3 mph over) and using the A/C after the outside temps reached 80, I managed to get 37.97 mpg and PO more people.

Areles (Ron)

Wingnut · Post by **Wingnut** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:20 pm

I averaged 29.67 mpg on my way back from Alabama last month but I was running 90 +/- mph with a convoy of ricers!

tpollauf · Post by **tpollauf** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:53 am

areles wrote: I managed to get 37.97 mpg and PO more people.

Areles (Ron)

Great job Ron. You have posted the highest MPG's of any of us with the 2.4L engine. Sometimes it's worth pissing off some other drivers to achieve these numbers

Great seeing you again and stay healthy (your Vibe too) so we can do this again next year somewhere

FYI. On my latest tank the first 200 miles were with the A/c On (was 95-100'f ) and on th4 way back it was off (windows & sunroof open

) . That first 200 miles lowered my numbers or I possibly could have beat my all time high of 37.3mpg. Oh well ..................... maybe on the next long road trip

ponta2147 · Post by **ponta2147** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 6:45 am

Dropped to 23mpg and 24mpg driving around the Virginia suburbs and highways of DC for a couple weeks- hills, fast merges, crazy drivers, and blasting the AC as the temperatures went up over 100 degrees with multiple passengers in my car. It hurt to literally drive 100 miles LESS on a tank than the previous record, but that's what the bigger engine's available power is there for, if I need it (and I did, because I had to drive pretty aggressively to get anywhere).

Back up to 30.6 and 30.7 on the way home- had to deal with hills and still constant A/C, as well as staying above 70mph for the whole trip. But I consider anything over 29mpg a victory.

star_deceiver · Post by **star_deceiver** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:52 pm

623kms on 44.5L - 7.1L/100kms or 33.1mpg

Mixed bag of city and highway and relativly un-nice driving!

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:13 pm

My mom's latest fillup:

07.11.12 - 25.2 mpg - 50% city/50% highway

j42.snyder · Post by **j42.snyder** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:56 am

Not to rain on anyone's parade - but I'm pretty sure I've got the best average mileage with a 2.4 (auto) from anyone on here. From what I can tell, I've only been beaten by one or two 1.8L's on Fuelly for the 2009-10 models. My overall average since new has been 31.9MPG over about 67,000 miles and 220 fill-ups.

You can see all of my stats from the link to Fuelly in the link below - all recorded since new - but some of the more recent fill-ups when not towing have averaged (all in U.S. MPG to keep things fair):

July 13th 38.2MPG
June 29th 38.3MPG
June 27th 35.6MPG
June 20th 38.7MPG

When towing my boat, I hit lows of 25.7 and 24MPG. The 24 was coming home from my cousin's place, and I just left it in 4th gear about 99% of the time to keep the transmission from doing so much hunting. It cost me a little bit of gas, but a lot less wear and tear on the tranny. The boat's not all that heavy (probably was around 800lbs loaded plus 4 of us in the car), but it's notably larger than the car and acts like a bit of a parachute behind me...

So far this year my average fuel price has been $4.79/gal, and more recently has been as high as $5.33, which tends to create very disciplined driving habits - at least for me! The majority of my driving is highway, and my speed rarely tops 65MPH. A/C usage is only when I really feel the need, but it does get some use with the weather we're having this year.

Normally I figure this all out in metric here - but I converted it to U.S. figures so it made sense to most of our more southern members... That Fuelly site makes it easy fortunately.

John

star_deceiver · Post by **star_deceiver** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:57 pm

j42.snyder wrote:Not to rain on anyone's parade - but I'm pretty sure I've got the best average mileage with a 2.4 (auto) from anyone on here. From what I can tell, I've only been beaten by one or two 1.8L's on Fuelly for the 2009-10 models. My overall average since new has been 31.9MPG over about 67,000 miles and 220 fill-ups.

Average mileage... possibly...

But have you joined to 500mi/800km - tank club yet?

j42.snyder · Post by **j42.snyder** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:15 pm

Remember - I have the 2.4 1SB, not your light weight 1SA 1.8 manual...
Technically I should be able to do that - but once the gage reads "E", I don't like to push it quite as far as you have. I don't really trust it, nor do I want to purposefully run out. I think yesterday I went about 675 on 41.XX litres, but even at that point it had been below the "E" mark for the last 25km or so. I know there "should" be gas in there according to what it takes to fill, but I guess I'm just not daring enough.

My first new car was a 1995 Dodge Neon with 2.0L SOHC and 5 speed. It only had a 42L tank, and once I went 678km and it took 41.5L to fill! I really didn't think I'd make it to a station, but it never quit or complained. It was a very quiet drive however, as the 3 of us in the car were just listening for the sputtering to happen. Late night on a long weekend in the country - everybody closed up early and we weren't prepared! At least we made it back to town - but barely...

I did have the fuel pump changed twice under warranty with that car. Hmmm, I wonder why?

John

star_deceiver · Post by **star_deceiver** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:27 pm

You pulling 38mpg, it would be close. Carry a full Jerry can though....

Brrice · Post by **Brrice** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:59 pm

I have the 2007 matrix 1.8 l auto . I get about 7.6l/100kl or 31mpg on average that would be aprox 80% highway/20% city. I drive about 98 kl/hr on the highway and its all level land in my area.

glhboy · Post by **glhboy** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:40 am

32mpg on this last tank. Car has 174,000 miles on it and that was 50/50 city and highway combo. Pretty good I think.

star_deceiver · Post by **star_deceiver** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 5:01 pm

801kms on 47.38L - 5.91L/100kms or 39.8mpg!!! +95% highway at 100km/h, ish... not bad mileage when you put in a little effort!

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 3:31 pm

My mom's latest fillup:
07.28.12 - 27.7 mpg - 50% city/50% highway

My latest fillup:
07.31.12 - 29.7 mpg - 50% city/50% highway

CharlesinGA · Post by **CharlesinGA** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:24 pm

Attempting to determine mileage from individual tank fulls is near impossible, The Vibe is difficult to fill consistently and even if you use the same pump every time, it won't fill the same. I started a spreadsheet which I posted earlier in this thread, and the mileage runs from 28 to 36 mpg for no apparent reason other than the way the tank is filled.

I have filled the tank 45 times since I purchased the Vibe in late September of 2011. 44 of those fillups are used to calculate the running average MPG which due to my recent 1900 mile trip from GA thru TN, KY, IL, and IA and back, pushed to 31.959 mpg. My average for the trip fillups was 32.66 mpg but I saw wacky numbers like 28.075 and 36.550 for no reason other than how I filled it, the pump itself, the angle the car sat at, and such. I did get 359 miles on one tank full, and it was only down to just under Â¼ tank which is where I usually fill it at. Not good for the fuel pump to run a tank nearly empty all the time.

Charles

Canker · Post by **Canker** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:02 pm

24.6mpg again. 75% city

scrapinby · Post by **scrapinby** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:26 am

You guys suck.

And to add insult to injury, it requires 91+ octane.

star_deceiver · Post by **star_deceiver** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 7:01 pm

568kms on 40.2L - 7L/100kms or 33.6mpg

scrapinby wrote:You guys suck.

And what might you be driving with the autotragic transmission?

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 4:14 am

scrapinby wrote:You guys suck.

And to add insult to injury, it requires 91+ octane.
star_deceiver wrote:And what might you be driving with the autotragic transmission?

Silverado SS

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 2:19 pm

My mom's latest fillup:

08.10.12 - 26.9 mpg - 50% city/50% highway

Mariachi · Post by **Mariachi** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 2:39 pm

i have not done the math with my car. I shall have to now.

felixturcotte22 · Post by **felixturcotte22** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:30 pm

I once got almost 45 mpg doing 40 mph in fifth gear in my 05 base vibe. Tires were properly inflated and I went real easy on the throttle for about 70 miles on a stretch.

felixturcotte22 · Post by **felixturcotte22** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 4:22 pm

That's how dirty the vibe gets going from Montreal to Toronto back and forth in 21 hours. 680 miles of wintery roads getting passed by semis !

thebarber · Post by **thebarber** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 6:16 pm

7.8 to 8.1L/100km 50/50 driving (29-30USMPG) from an 03 VGT

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 4:01 pm

My latest fillup:

08.16.12 - 27.6 mpg - 50% city/50% highway

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Sun Aug 19, 2012 3:15 pm

My mom's latest fillup:

08.19.12 - 30.8 mpg - 50% city/50% highway

star_deceiver · Post by **star_deceiver** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 6:25 pm

640kms on 47L - 7.3L/100kms or 32mpg.... damned city driving...

thebarber · Post by **thebarber** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:59 am

Recently got 6.55L/100km or 36usmpg mostly highway....awesome. and I thought I had hooned on it too much...

trb · Post by **trb** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:26 pm

Just drove my son from Houston to LA this week in his car. Gas mileage was bad, like 29mpg average. But then we had the AC on and were going 80-85 across most of Texas, and there were a lot of hills that required a downshift to 3rd to keep a steady 70+ in NM, AZ and CA. Overall it was about 53 gallons for 1,550 miles.

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 11:30 am

My latest fillup:

08.26.12 - 29.9 mpg - 50% city/50% highway

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 5:56 pm

My mom's latest fillup:

08.31.12 - 28.5 mpg - 50% city/50% highway

CharlesinGA · Post by **CharlesinGA** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:15 pm

Just completed a rather long trip from South of Atlanta, Georgia, to Fargo, North Dakota and return.

3061 miles, 1569 miles up, and 1492 miles return. Total gas consumed was 93.958 gallons and a trip average of 32.631 mpg. Most of the trip was run at 74-75 mph with slowing in a number of instances going thru cities or construction zones. There was some two lane state highway driving both ways, but most was interstate.

I might add that the A/C was on for much of the trip, as it was 106Â°F and the wind was blowing when I stopped in Iowa for gas last Wednesday. This is a base model with auto.

This raised my 11 month average (since I've owned the vehicle) to 32.096 mpg according to the spreadsheet. I've filled the tank 64 times (eleven on this trip alone).

I-70 from Kansas City to St. Louis was quite heavy with traffic Monday evening (labor day evening) and also with State Patrol. I saw eight or ten different blue light traffic stops, almost all were westbound (I was eastbound) and I stopped in the Columbia area and found six State Police vehicles parked at a truck stop and the officers in a "huddle". Saw very little other enforcement on the trip. Only once did I actually see a officer with a laser gun spotting traffic, I went by him at 70 in a 65 zone (in Georgia) and of course he couldn't do anything as its illegal in GA for non-state (meaning municipal or county) officers to use speed detection equipment to cite you for less than 10 over the limit in most cases.

Charles

09vGT · Post by **09vGT** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 9:43 am

Not last fill up, but fill up before last: 23 MPG. 75% city 25% highway.

thebarber · Post by **thebarber** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 12:03 pm

last fillup 7.19L/100km (32.7USmpg)

again, i thought i had hooned on it too much

got like 8.2L/100km pulling that trailer with the engine hoist, 1zz, and c60....was about 1200-1500lbs towing...

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:32 pm

My latest fillup:

09.06.12 - 28.5 mpg - 50% city/50% highway

LarryKingsShoes · Post by **LarryKingsShoes** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 11:50 am

I've been on a nice streak of 32+ MPG. My last tank averaged about 33.6 MPG. I'm getting so used to this that it's going to be tough seeing it drop to mid 20's come winter.

My best tank yet was 33.9 MPG and my average, according to Fuelly, is about 29.8 MPG.

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 5:55 am

My mom's last 5 fillups (most recent in red):

Date - Odometer - Miles - Gallons - Price - MPG - City %

07.28.12 - 32,052 - 255.8 - 9.271 - $3.37 - 27.753 - 50%
08.10.12 - 32,235 - 183.0 - 6.799 - $3.97 - 26.916 - 50%
08.19.12 - 32,589 - 354.1 - 11.460 - $3.87 - 30.899 - 50%
08.31.12 - 32,864 - 275.4 - 9.630 - $4.05 - 28.598 - 50%
09.15.12 - 33,106 - 241.6 - 8.319 - $3.94 - 29.042 - 50%

All Time = Fillups: 87 | Miles: 21,782.6 | Gallons: 812.389 | Avg. MPG: 26.813 | Cost: $2716.51