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Originally Posted by Shizuma
You don't however have a good sampling of the two there, right now the number of cars is to low to get any sort of real average sample, plus given that 75% of the cars made have been manual the AT is going to be skewed in comparison for quite a while.
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Yes, you're correct. There aren't enough results for FR-S/BRZ yet. Only about 60 results so far. But there are almost 300 CR-Z's and that to me is a good sampling. According to EPA, CR-Z's AT gets better MPG, but according to fuelly.com, CR-Z's MT gets better MPG. FR-S/BRZ is getting similar result as CR-Z. These makes me think that EPA test has some disadvantages to these cars and I wanted to mention that so that people stop trusting EPA and automatically think that AT gets better real life MPG than MT.
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Originally Posted by Shizuma
Also just another thought for those results being skewed, often people choose an AT over an MT because they sit in stop and go traffic a lot, which means a lot of the AT's are going to come in with lower MPG because of that as well.
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This is a really good point that I haven't thought about!!! That might very well be the reason of my mystery
