Motor Trend's Top 10 MPG Outperformers

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

The conditions you drive in is everything.

Get out of traffic get on a flat smooth road and set cruise control to 65 mph for a day and enjoy >30 mpg. Any conditions where you have to slow down and accelerate will ruin your fuel economy in a combustion engine.

I totally fail to see how so many people don't seem to grasp this very simple concept.
You could make a Prius get horrible and a Hellcat get spectacular mileage against their rated levels if you tried hard enough.

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I totally fail to see how so many people don't seem to grasp this very simple concept.
You could make a Prius get horrible and a Hellcat get spectacular mileage against their rated levels if you tried hard enough.

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[mazeroni]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Again. It isn't the numbers they were rating the car by. It was how far above the numbers the car reached on average. Doesn't matter that other car have higher numbers unless they tested at an average greater than the others.

Oh, I understood that. It is just interesting that the 30% disparity exists and isn't reflected in the official EPA numbers. I've seen people reporting north of 30 mpg in the Miata, and the EPA does reflect that.

So I'm left to wonder where the disparity lies. Especially when looking at it from a marketing perspective. Regardless of "because racecar," a window sticker with better numbers should factor into the buying equation.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by mazeroni

Oh, I understood that. It is just interesting that the 30% disparity exists and isn't reflected in the official EPA numbers. I've seen people reporting north of 30 mpg in the Miata, and the EPA does reflect that.

So I'm left to wonder where the disparity lies. Especially when looking at it from a marketing perspective. Regardless of "because racecar," a window sticker with better numbers should factor into the buying equation.

The EPA numbers are set by a standardized testing method. The "real world" numbers are not always all subject to the same data tracking and will of course vary. I guess it is as simple as they have to use the EPA ones even if they are way off real world.

[fang_gt86]

Originally Posted by Prodigalson

I am very pleased with the fuel economy. I'm getting 31.5 mpg average, over the last ~2,000 miles...That's icing on the cake for a sports car!

Then you're not driving it like a "sports car" lol. I can never get it over 29mpg average, no matter what I do..

[Celica00]

Hellcat gets better MPG than an Abarth? Wow.

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by Celica00

Hellcat gets better MPG than an Abarth? Wow.

No, it doesn't. Read the article.

[extrashaky]

I have decided that I hate this article. Motor Trend published this garbage knowing full well half the brain damaged people who read it will completely misunderstand the premise and say "Derpie derp derp a Mercedes G63 gets better gas mileage than a Fiat Spider? Well derpie derp tada!" Motor Trend can go suck a bag of ****s.

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by fang_gt86

Then you're not driving it like a "sports car" lol. I can never get it over 29mpg average, no matter what I do..

If you drive it "like a sports car" you shouldn't be getting above 15 mpg.

[Cartman]

I always get more city MPG than the EPA advertises (currently been doing 23-24MPG for the past few months) and I'm not even trying to save gas... I'm constantly weaving through traffic, hitting up to 90MPH whenever possible...

On the other hand, back when I had and 06 mustang, my city MPG hovered around 9MPG...

[Cartman]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

If you drive it "like a race car" you shouldn't be getting above 15 mpg.

FTFY

Lowest MPG I've managed was 12.55MPG

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

I have decided that I hate this article. Motor Trend published this garbage knowing full well half the brain damaged people who read it will completely misunderstand the premise and say "Derpie derp derp a Mercedes G63 gets better gas mileage than a Fiat Spider? Well derpie derp tada!" Motor Trend can go suck a bag of ****s.

Yep, I agree with the bolded ...... and to think these people are paying into SS to keep it afloat long enough for me to get my money back THAT I PAID into it ...... that's what scares me .......


humfrz

[-Willis-86touge]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

The conditions you drive in is everything.

Get out of traffic get on a flat smooth road and set cruise control to 65 mph for a day and enjoy >30 mpg. Any conditions where you have to slow down and accelerate will ruin your fuel economy in a combustion engine.

I know conditions are everything. But most people are not going to drive there car on just the interstate. I drive what I consider to be normal 50 town 50 interstate and get roughy 26 combined. But my statement was to really acknowledge that this car is so good no matter how hard I drive it I am at 24mpg. To just drive on the interstate is unrealistic. That's why I said I could not see ever getting 30mpg.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by -Willis-86touge

I know conditions are everything. But most people are not going to drive there car on just the interstate. I drive what I consider to be normal 50 town 50 interstate and get roughy 26 combined. But my statement was to really acknowledge that this car is so good no matter how hard I drive it I am at 24mpg. To just drive on the interstate is unrealistic. That's why I said I could not see ever getting 30mpg.

98% of my miles are on the Interstate (well the Canadian version)!
My average has been an un wavering 32MPG for 3 years solid. Even when I play during those other 2% it isn't enough to cancel out all those steady highway miles.


Mind you I am the exception not the rule and all those guys driving 10 blocks in bumper to bumper stop and go traffic everyday balance out the average.