Yaris Sedan gets better mileage than Yaris Hatchback - Toyota Yaris Forums

Wattz · 11-08-2009, 10:45 AM

My hatch has been right around 43mpg since I got it. 90 mile round trip daily. The only "hill" is the on-ramp to the interstate. I spend 80% of drive time around 60mph on the highway, the other 20% in stop and go morning and afternoon traffic.

1stToyota · 11-10-2009, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Wattz

My hatch has been right around 43mpg since I got it. 90 mile round trip daily. The only "hill" is the on-ramp to the interstate. I spend 80% of drive time around 60mph on the highway, the other 20% in stop and go morning and afternoon traffic.

Sounds a little like me, except my round trip is only about 45 miles, and my highway speed is 65mph, or a little better; filled up this morning, got 43.4mpg. I

my Yaris.

roxy1 · 11-10-2009, 05:49 PM

absolutely no info about how they arrived at any of those numbers: conditions, miles driven, routes, who was driving each car. based on history, CR has a poor record of using standardized methods when they are testing this many different products. there are tons of different variables when doing such tests and i'd bet my left arm that they werent identical for each and every car.

there is no reason there is going to be much, if any, disparity between the yaris sedan and hatch. both have the same coefficient of drag at .29 and the weight differences would be inconsequential.

they came up with a 2 mpg advantage of a corolla over a yaris hatchback. now, i love my corolla mileage wise, but i cannot, under the same routes and driving style i had with my yaris hatch, achieve better mileage than i did with the yaris (consistently 1-2 mpg lower).

if there was really a 6 mpg variance between the two, all the high mpg reporting would be coming from sedan drivers in a pretty high percentage. alas, we know this is not the case.

i couldnt have gotten as low as 38 mpg highway in my yaris hatch if i tried.

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11-08-2009, 10:45 AM	#1
Wattz Drives: 2008 Yaris Hatch Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Florida Posts: 36	My hatch has been right around 43mpg since I got it. 90 mile round trip daily. The only "hill" is the on-ramp to the interstate. I spend 80% of drive time around 60mph on the highway, the other 20% in stop and go morning and afternoon traffic.

11-10-2009, 05:49 PM	#3
roxy1 Drives: 2014 yaris 5 speed Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: michigan Posts: 642	absolutely no info about how they arrived at any of those numbers: conditions, miles driven, routes, who was driving each car. based on history, CR has a poor record of using standardized methods when they are testing this many different products. there are tons of different variables when doing such tests and i'd bet my left arm that they werent identical for each and every car. there is no reason there is going to be much, if any, disparity between the yaris sedan and hatch. both have the same coefficient of drag at .29 and the weight differences would be inconsequential. they came up with a 2 mpg advantage of a corolla over a yaris hatchback. now, i love my corolla mileage wise, but i cannot, under the same routes and driving style i had with my yaris hatch, achieve better mileage than i did with the yaris (consistently 1-2 mpg lower). if there was really a 6 mpg variance between the two, all the high mpg reporting would be coming from sedan drivers in a pretty high percentage. alas, we know this is not the case. i couldnt have gotten as low as 38 mpg highway in my yaris hatch if i tried.