2004 4 speed auto
3000rpm 73mph

 

Yeah I just started watching mine....14.97mpg it's just not cool at all. I was reading everyones averages in the 15-20 range and I'm falling just flat of bottom.

 

i know your pain

 

lol... when I first bought the car I was consistently getting 12-13mpg. Granted it was all city driving lol

Now, I get 18-20 mpg but most of it is highway mileage

 

I got 26~28 from my .....daily drive V6 MX-3
1.8 V6, smoked the 1.8 TURBO Jetta, hell yea!
93 1k car VS 03 10k car....my buddy almost cried, lol

 

Wow... I was actually going to make a thread about this. 50/50 highway city, I get about 23.7mpg But I was in a massive traffic jam and did a huge amount of short trips. I'm sure I can get more than 500km from our measely 55litre tank.

Filled up 52 litres of 91 Ultramar.
Using 5w30
I don't baby it. Daily redlines, pretty hard turns, etc. But I use cruise control on highway
Stock Potenza's... 225/45zr/18
6 speed manual
470km on 50 litres or 13.2gallons which is about 23mpg

Missing anything else?

EDIT: Forgot to mention that my MPG gets better everytime for some reason... when I first go the car I got exactly 19.5mpg, now it's going higher and higher. Maybe it's due to cleaning up all the oil in the intake?

 

Lol! You betcha! But I didn't mind much.

Well maybe a bit.

Nah, not really.

Who am I kidding? I did cheat sometimes and passed them at 150 km/h (93 m/h) uphill, just to show them what my 8 was made of (and also to heal my ego somewhat ) 'But it was all part of an experiment' lol

 

Yup! Finally, the ATs have something over the MTs!

Boy, am I gonna get flamed for this!

(Ducks and runs for cover)

 

I regularly get 23-24 mpg in steady highway driving, cruising at 70-72 mph (above 75 mph it falls off noticeably).

 

3rd gear is 1:100 mph to rpm so 30mph = 3000rpm. 6th gear is 1:50 so 30mph is 1500 rpm 65 mph should be 3250 rpm ect....

 

How are you canadians calculating MPG when you full up by the liter? And secondly, are you using an american gallon or the imperial?

I just don't see how a stock car gets anywhere near 26, even if the've got the cruise on 60ish.

 

I've gotten 26-28 mpg with very conservative, all-highway driving at 65 mph and US gallons on my MT. Pretty boring, but it is possible. Best I've seen reported here is 29 mpg.

 

Good point since I did not specify which one I used. According to this site http://www.euronet.nl/users/grantm/frans/fuel.html my 8.99 l/100 km equals to 26.2 mpg (US) or 31.4 mpg (Canadian). It really is confusing with all those different standards

 

take whatever amount you fill up at the station / 3.785 = gallon.
(50L/3.785 = 13.21 gallon)
take whatever km your trip meter tells you / 1.6 = mile.
(350km/1.6 = 218.75 miles)

218.75mile/13.21gallon = 16.56MPG

Wow, I just realize my first tank of gas has better mileage than I thought. I was expecting 14mpg for break in period. :p

 

I grew up calculation meters and liters. But I found mpg makes more senses. :p

I think it's screwed up by using liters/100km (liters needed for 100km).
If they use kms/liter (kms ran from 1 liter of gas) would be easier to understand.
It's reverse of mpg in idea.

 

Yeah... for awhile I was calculating imperial and I was like 28MPG?! How was that possible? Then I calculated it to US standards and was a miserable 23-24mpg. Going to try to see the best I can get.

 

A few weeks ago we took a trip to Cape Cod with two friends. Cruise control set at 72 mph, the Acura CL-S got 32mpg, the rx-8 got 24mpg and the 911, a 30 year old car with no cruise got 28mpg. So, twenty-something is possilble in the Mazda. You just can't have too much fun while doing it.

 

2nd tank of gas on my 6mt mostly city I got 17.5 mpg. It's getting better mpg than I thought it would be.