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Originally Posted by Lelantas
Although, something to keep in mind is that with automatic transmission, your highway cruising RPM in 6th gear is a fair bit lower than with manual, so it's not surprising that you see a bit better highway mileage than most people are getting.
I've only calculated my mileage manually two or three times, but the car MPG display shows an average of between 30 and 31 MPG with a mix of city and highway driving. Car is stock, manual transmission.
With MT, I've noticed that any speed past about 72-74 MPH and you're going to start taking fairly significant MPG hits.
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Yea, I should have noted I had the Auto, and actually meant to in the post above. All you say is correct.
Over 74,219 lifetime miles I've averaged 32.7MPG which includes a lot of tom-foolery during commuting (I race nearly everyone away from the lights and rarely see an off-ramp I don't take twice as fast as I should). That said, even with commuting 40 miles each way to work I spend a lot of time on cruise at 45 to 65MPH.