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Its been a month with my Vibe and my MPG in the city has not been what I expected. It ranges from 24 to 26. I drive slowly with slow starts, try not to let it idle for long. How have others done with their automatic..FWD?I still love it!...but wish my gass mileage was better.

I get a lot less but since the CAI and the Exhaust I step on the gas a lot just to hear it. Great sound! Need to control that..

I've tried to keep track of my basic gas mileage on my FWD Base Auto since the beginning. Check it out here:http://forums.genvibe.com/zero...#3069

I average around 26 to 30 MPG average speed 45 to 50 MPH

Yeah man. I got the same problem. The first time I filled up I got like 32 and that was it. It went downhill from there. LOL. I wish I got the stick. I would've prolly averaged bout 29-31 most of time. O well, wha u gonna do. Inder Singh

I am between 20-25mpg. 50% city, 50% hwysucks for me !!

I have a downward trendline on my GT. This is about 10 fills off... http://home.sprynet.com/~rapto...t.htm Between 10 and 24 was mostly highway driving, to/from Jersey and Atlanta..Still..it seems to be doing better than my Probe did..but i'm a little worried about the downward trend..maybe it's just levelling out..

All winter I have been averaging around 27mpg us gal. This is about 90% highway but with a lot of warm-up time and driving with the defroster on. I hope the numbers improve a lot when the weather warms up.

sounds like we are all in the same boat. I am hoping it will go up with time instead of down. thanks everyone

I just checked the original MSRP sticker, it says my car should get 28 city 33 hwy. yeah right !! never ever came close to even city EPA. all my other cars got better than city rating.

My sticker said 29 city and 34 highway. I did get 33.5 on the highway..I was just hoping for 29 city. I had a VW before with a stick and was doing well. I had hoped to do real well with the Vibe

I get 28-30 fairly consistently driving locally and I live on a mountain. I do try and limit my trips up and down the mountain, but I wouldn't consider myself a slow driver. The only change I have made is switching to Mobile 1 at 3k, I now have 15k miles on my 04.

awd, 9000 mi , mostly city 80%,20% highway ...right now i'm averaging 18mpg with a low of 16.2......YES 16.2mpg WITHOUT driving like a nut or excessive idling, highest since october has been 21 mpg.......this is worse than last winter in the summer i average 22-24mpg, once reached 27mpg and that was on a trip of 125 miles...i dont know how everyone gets such "great" gas mileage

I've been averaging 28 since I started keeping track last July. I figured it out the other day by month, to see if it got worse with the weather (and the fact that my tires suck and my alignment is off - all to be fixed on tuesday), but it is still ~28 for each month separately.

Quote, originally posted by Dunkie22 »wish my gass mileage was better.My average is 25 mpg, but the best Ive had was 29 mpg on the freeway at 65 mph. That gain in fuel economy wasn't worth the time I lost instead of going 75 mph.Not really happy getting mediocre gas mileage, but its a big car with a small engine....

I'm glad to here that some people are getting as bad milage as me. I know I only have 2500km on my car but I've been averaging about 20.5 mpg(US). My high was 28mpg and that was 100% highway. My low has be 15 MPG. I'm hoping this will improve.

mine has been on average 25mpg and i drive a lot.. hasn't been good either with hitting lift and being winter i had the heat on. now i'm getting about 26 easily and still hitting lift regularly

Add me to the list of people disappointed with their mileage. There's actually a few threads about this in the forum. Just do a search for the word "mileage".I've been intentionally babying my Vibe just to see what the mileage would be. Mileage was a big factor in choosing this vehicle (besides the looks). I also drive about 90% freeway (purposely at only 55-60 during the first few fill-ups). I'm now driving about 63-67 mph (slower than most other drivers) on the freeway, but still conservatively on the city streets. I now have 2700 mi. First few fillups were in the 27-28 mpg but seems to be gradually climbing. My last fill up was 30.5 mpg...Of course the EPA says we should be getting 29-34. My previous 5 cars were all at the top of the EPA range when I went through this excersize. Oh well, may as well drive like I normally do and go with the traffic; I dont think I'm going to get the advertised mileage.

With twp months & 2100 miles my avg. (cheched yesterday) was 28.4 mpg! This is approx. 70% highway @ 70-75 mph. My daughter, driver in training, uhg!! probably doesn't help my average though.

Getting 32 mpg @ 65 mph, goes down to 28 @ 75 mph. Wifes 4 door truck gets 22 @ either speed. This is county road driving (daily commuting) with a few hills.Kinda miss my old Dodge Neon...42 mpg and better A/C. Definatly not the same quallity though.

My milage is great.33 on Hwy and 29 in City.And I don't drive like grandma.

I just got back from a 12 hr. road trip and got between 30 to 32 mpg going 80 mph on the freeway. I think that at 60 mph it might get 34+The fun part was climbing some hills and listening to the cai wail away!

25 to 28 year round in my GT. 75% highway 75mph. Hit lift every day. The only good thing about toll booths.

I just got 38.3 mpg Canadian gallon on a road trip, my best mileage yet. Steady 50 mph. in a snow storm.

well i just did a 227 mile trip averaging between 67-70 and i only used 4.493 gallons. which equals out to 50.523035833.... NICE! i knew i could make this thing do 50 mpgs. Now to get the TB spacer.

my average mpg is about 32 to 37 i have a cold air intake sensor chip that seems to help some also averaged speed in my area tops is 60 but i also gun it sometimes i just estimated a week ago on 5 gal of unleaded i got 80 miles thats ruffly 37.5mpg so woot to me

Quote, originally posted by hhsgiant »i just estimated a week ago on 5 gal of unleaded i got 80 miles thats ruffly 37.5mpg so woot to mesorry to burst your bubble bro but 80 divided by 5 is 16 mpgs. maybe you made a slight mistake and missed a 1 cuz 180 in 5 gallons is about 37.5

When I first got the car in October I got about 31mpg. Then I changed the air filter, switched to synthetic and changed the transmission fluid and now I average about 25mpg......... could be those 0-12 degree days. I drive 95% highway.

Averaging 29MPG 60%Hwy, 40%City. I make a weekly 300 MI mile highway trip out of town and consistently average 29MPG and average about 80MPH....

26mpg pretty consistently since I've owned the vibe for the last 2 months. I live close to work and everything else so I take alot of short trips. The best I've seen was 29mpg and that was about 50/50 city/highway driving. It's still better than the 15mpg I was getting in my Jeep Cherokee.

my appologies it was exactly 180 miles per 5 gal just fixing that statement and thanks joholste for the correcting