MPG way over epa?
 

Doing about 70% highway and the city driving is with a good amount of traffic, in my six speed manual my mpg display is showing 35.3 mpg. How accurate is this display and is anyone else showing these kind of numbers?

Stop driving it like a prius!

In my experience its off by roughly 2mpg. I get 31 but when I calculate it by hand I'm really getting 29-30 still better then it's rated at though.

Haha, after driving camaros and corvettes up to this point, it feels like one. But seriously, I've been driving it pretty normal. I do put the cruise on when I'm on the highway, but most shifts are between 3-4000

mine says 27.5 but i feel like my gas tank needle drops faster then my rev needle goes up.

I wouldn't say way over, but it's not at all hard to equal or better the EPA rating. I find that alone pretty impressive. No complaints on mileage here.

I have been getting 22-25 in town and 30-36 on the interstate

I get 37.1 on the freeway... I drive around 340 miles on a tank and always fill up before hitting 1/4 tank

I've been getting 28-29 by hand caluclation and the computer says 31.6 for me overall... I drive 80% highway... 35 would have to be like 95+% highway...

I get much better mpg than epa too but the gauge is a bout 1-1.5mpg off in my AT. I do about 35% hwy and 65% city and i avg about 27mpg.

mine used to say 22.7 for about the first 3k miles. Its reading 24.4 mpg now. I did a test over my last two fillups and im getting right around 25mpg. Im happy with that since im used to getting 12mpg in my s500.

I'm averaging around 25 mpg. Only at 2100 miles though. Hopefully it gets better. I tend to not let the revs over 3k rpms while im shifting and driving in the city.

My commute is mostly freeway with no stop and go just your normal slow downs. I average between 31.8 and 32.5 for every tank for the first 5K. I drive crap out of the car ~10% time and cruse the freeway the other 90.

I'v only been under 30mpg for a tank a few times. I mostly drive on rural back roads, speed limits between 30 and 45; which seems to really help my gas milage...and be tons of fun.

I'm only at 500 miles and getting an indicated 29.1 which I calculated 28.5 mpg
I have not exceeded 5k rpms yet.. Maybe a little.. But I'm not babying it any either.. Better mpg than I was expecting relative to my driving.. I haven't done redline yet and it's killing me..

You have to aware of what you are looking at on avg. readout. It is resetable(press&hold), so if you have never reset it, will give you an average since whenever. Some folks reset the avg at the beginning of each tank.

The avg. value is often optimistic vs. the hand calculation.
This car appears to experience a very wide range of fuel consumption performance. I have experienced as high as 25 mpusg (short trip/city/winter) and as low as 46 mpusg (long trip/hwy/summer).

Averaging about 26 in mixed driving. Pure highway driving yields 35-40, but if you add a mile or two off the highway, it drops to 33-34. All my previous cars got the best mpg on rural roads going 45mph, but not the FR-Z. The FR-Z loves pure highway driving. The mpg gauge is consistently about 1mpg too generous.

I'm averaging 26.8 but I've been dogging it A LOT. It gets 35 MPG on the freeway easily if I baby it at 60 mph.

15k miles, i calculate my mileage by hand everytime and compare to the computer. I find it is off by 2 miles, I typically get 30.xxx as avg but by hand always seems to be 27-28. No mileage complaints here.

BRZ Limited 6MT

• 27.7 MPG average over 7900 miles (5400 on summer tires, 2500 on snow tires)
• Mostly short trips (2-10 miles)
• Hilly rural and small town roads, some stop lights, moderate traffic (only ~16% highway)
• multi-info-display's average reads ~5% higher than actual
• Detailed log at http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showpost.php?p=301084

Weekdays 80% highway 20% city
Weekends 80% city 20% highway
2 months, 3000miles - Avg mpg = 27.1

I fill up every time I'm at that last tick on the gas gauge.
Usually have to fill up every 4-5 days.

You can always just check by hand and compare to the dash. Anyway, my digital is always correct. I have checked all my fill ups to date and always correct. My last few long highway runs were 30mpg 70-80mph. So, if your driving slower than that stands to reason your mpg would be higher. When driving in city with tach 3-7, I get 22-25.

Why can't we all be on the metric system?

All city pretty much for me. I have a lead foot.... 20.1mpg last I saw. I've had the car almost 2 months, about 600 miles so far. Filled up twice about to fill up again in the next few days.

What's it to you?

I see this train of thought all the time here, I really don't understand it.

If you're not flooring the car the whole time and getting 22mpg you don't deserve the FR-S!!!

That feels like a relevent, but at the same time silly question. It probably violates someone's right to be different.

I'd rather mine say 35 than the 22.5 mine currently says

I'm jealous of you guys. I've gotten 21 mpg when I calculated it by hand. Gauge reads 22.5 on average.

Its really hard for me to resist the throttle though :burnrubber:

And I really dont think there is any way to drive this car like a prius lol. I think the guys posting better mpgs are just more mature drivers wish I was sometimes lol!

diddo =/

I get between 22-24, but I do about 90% city driving. When I am on the freeways I am getting 30-35.

Calculating by hand gives you the most accurate reading. Just reset the odometer after a full fill up, and the next time you fill up, take the odo miles reading and divide by the amount of fuel added. I'm getting around 30.5 avg over the past ~10 fill ups

Im getting almost 30mpg not flooring it all the time.. So ur not alone..
I do understand that it's an entry level sports car and many on here are of the younger generation and enjoying their cars the best way they know how..
Don't take it personal.. Most on here are very knowledgeable and helpful..

Lifetime over 1300 miles reads 31.0 mpg, but I calculate at every fill up and I've been getting between 29 and 30.5 mpg depending on traffic. This last fill up was just after break in, so I drove quite a bit harder and involved a lot of stop and go in hilly areas while apartment hunting. I put 10.56 gallons in this morning and had driven 313 miles.

The average readout is always at least 5% optimistic (usually somewhere between 5% - 10% for me) so you're likely averaging around 34 mpg if you calculate by dividing miles driven by gallons filled.

My foot is to the floor most of the time and I still get over 30mpg.

If I drive like a grandma, I can get 30+ MPG.

But who the hell does that in this car?!?!? I still manage to average 27, hell yea!

Ive averaged 27mpg at 10,500 miles. I like to give her the beans a lot too....

I used to have to TRY really hard (i.e., concentrate on driving conservatively) on the hwy to get ~30 MPG... now, with I/H/over/front pipes, I can easily get 32-34 MPG on the hwy, without even having to try that hard. :thumbsup:

My average over 10k miles is 30 mpg. I go 1/2 city and 1/2 highway. It's impressive because I used to get 30 mpg with Corolla a decade ago.

If I reset the average mpg display when I get on the freeway I have seen up to 41.3 mpg or so on my commute when traffic is slow and steady (no stop and go). Since the meter is high by about 2 mpg compared to manual calculations I am getting close to 39. I have the automatic and keep it in 6th in manual mode unless it slows below the shift point. I shift up as soon as I can. I figure if I can't go fast I might as well see how good I can get the milage.

My combined milage, city/freeway commute is between 30 and 34 mpg.