25 here

Yeah I average around 24...these kids are throttle shy.

Rock chips are one risk, yes (as well as cracked windshields), but also the increased risk of an accident. If you're close enough to improve your gas mileage significantly, you're also close enough to significantly decrease your time to react to any changes in the truck's path, and you're also close enough that the truck driver probably can't see you.

Keep in mind fuel quality varies from state-to-state, terrain makes a huge difference, and sloppy WOT driving kills economy while not garnering much added performance. You're going to have garbage MPG if you're hauling ass through canyons in SoCal vs straight flat highway across Ohio. 30 MPG is easy with this engine if you're not WOT all day long.

If you're running boost on an inefficient map, goodbye fuel economy. My stock STI rarely gets better than 20 MPG.

I get low 30's on the highway (30-32) and low 20's when I thrash it around backroads. I think the onboard computer was saying 26.5 MPG average or something a few weeks back (I've done a lot of road-trip miles on this car though-- a thousand miles coming out from Colorado plus I've been up and down between SB and the bay area and SB and LA a bunch of times this summer). Highway mileage is pretty good for something NA and fun to drive IMHO. There are definitely more efficient engines out there, though. I think the N54 on my dad's 135 gets 28 highway or something if you drive it with a light foot, and that car makes about twice the power and almost 3x the torque of ours... Still, it's not bad. It still uses less gas than my GTI did.

Seriously?

Nah, just prefer a heavy wallet to an empty gas tank ;)

3500+ lbs, AWD, boost and 3 differentials will do that.

Clear bra isn't going to save you when something big gets knocked up or even save your windshield. I always get out of the way of big trucks whether it's the side or behind, I just don't feel safe around them with this small car. I understand driving behind a truck at a distance but if you're talking about drafting behind a truck that's pretty close.

Also a light foot isn't going to get you 42 MPG, that's impossible with this car, I don't know where people are pulling those numbers from. Unless they reset their average MPG while driving and let it run the average while they're cruising, then that's not accurate at all.

retards sticking behind large trucks. You must have not watched Final Destination.

I personally hate drafting behind the truck. It annoys the driver as well as slow me down. If I do really care about mpg, I would not buy this car in the first place.

Get real people!

Id take the deer home.. sorry living in the city. Rarely see deers. nowdays

He was lucky. He should not hit the brake. Hell anyone would hit the brake for that kind of reaction.

deer meats are very delicious. Drool