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Originally Posted by thill
All depends on how you drive and where you drive. Lots of highway miles? Much easier to hit EPA numbers for almost every car. Lots of city driving with short trips? Much harder.
And of course your driving style. Keep in mind some of these guys are babying their cars. Once you start winding the engine towards redline and higher RPM's you are not going to get EPA numbers most likely.
Consumer Reports has done extensive testing with city vs highway and the consensus is most cars can meet or beat the EPA numbers on the highway, but it is hard to achieve EPA in the city.
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this is why i am interested in the responses to threads like this. i find EPA numbers much less useful than what people are getting in real mixed driving. and yes a persons driving style impacts those results greatly, which is why i am looking more at the averages and trends of peoples responses. i would say keeping it below 4k rpm (which i believe is break in rule) reflects average driving, true it wont factor in the few on ramp redlines that are inevitable later on, but as far as a whole tank average they will end up being close, or at least still more indicative than epa numbers.