42.04 MPG straight off the lot!

[forpinks]

Try drafting a boxy vehicle and you will get hybrid MPGs!

[GuySmily]

One guy at my local Jiffy Lube is a fellow mr2 owner (they're all buddies there), so they take good care of my car.

As for 42mpg.. We're struggling to keep above 36mpg in my gf's liftback, while my mr2 (with 292k miles) just passed 32mpg.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

hey Rusty, right? how are you and your gf driving the LB? 36 is a little less than average (i would think).

[petesimac]

Well, on my first tank (filled up at dealership), I traveled 298 miles (I stopped for gas because I was just about to drop down to my last bar on the gauge); I put in 9.813 gallons of gass (which surprised me a bit with just over one bar showing to have used up nearly 10 of 11.1 gallons. This equals 30.4 mpg.

During this tank I drove about 98% in city-type situations: taking kids to school, shopping, etc. Sometimes it was just me in the car, but mostly one or more of my kids were with me, or my 250lb dad. I would have liked to get the 34 mpg city rate that the specs promise, but with a bit of AC use and the heavier weight at times, I'm not all that disappointed. I have a bit trip to FL coming up in a few days and I'm really hoping to get the 40mpg promised.

I strive for smooth acceleration, low rpms, and I try to use DFCO as much as possible, so my lower than average rate isn't my fault. I'm hoping that what other people have said is true: that the engine gets better mileage as it breaks in. Still in all, it's 10 mpg better than my Forester in city driving!

[Yaris#2]

Wife just checked mpg on last tank of gas. 44.8 mostly rural, 2 lane highway and intown. Just can't beat it. That is actually better mileage than Honda's hybrid... whatever it's called.

[bkrownd]

Originally Posted by petesimac

I strive for smooth acceleration, low rpms, and I try to use DFCO as much as possible, so my lower than average rate isn't my fault. I'm hoping that what other people have said is true: that the engine gets better mileage as it breaks in. Still in all, it's 10 mpg better than my Forester in city driving!

If you got good MPG on your first couple tanks of gas you wouldn't have been driving it right. You're supposed to give it a workout the first couple hundred miles.

[Yaris Hilton]

Doesn't really make any difference how you drive it the first few hundred miles. Just drive it.

[jhsouders]

Originally Posted by hans_fh

I'm so glade to here that!!

I got 42MPG too on the way to Las Vegas from Utah!! (with A/C and four people).

Mine is automatic trans. sedan

I got 48.5mpg from prineville, or to hillsboro, or over the cascade mountain range, with 5 people in the car, AC on, and one of them had a computer plugged into to my electric jack. damn was i surprised!