Your Car: How does your actual mpg compare to the sales sticker?

Kathleen04

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Tue Jun-21-05 11:18 PM
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Your Car: How does your actual mpg compare to the sales sticker?

Mine gets 6 mpg less than the sales' sticker's "city" mpg..disappointing.. x(

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Nite Owl

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Tue Jun-21-05 11:49 PM
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1. Right on

or a little better. Surprising huh.

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Kathleen04

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Wed Jun-22-05 12:03 AM
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2. Interesting

Are the driving conditions in your area relatively smooth? It's a little stop and go here, I think that may be the issue..

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Nite Owl

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Wed Jun-22-05 12:42 PM
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9. No lots of hills.

Have you checked your tires, if they are not properly inflated it can affect your mpg. Try a different gas?

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Kathleen04

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Wed Jun-22-05 02:07 PM
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15. Hmm

I'll look into that..its a new car so everything should be fine?

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man4allcats

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Wed Jun-22-05 12:06 AM
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3. My car is infinitely better than the sales sticker.

I tried driving the sales sticker, but nothing happened. I just sat there on the showroom floor on top of my sales sticker thinking that maybe it would take off like a magic carpet, but it never did. I don't know why not. Pretty soon the salesman called security and two guys with shaved heads and Bush and Jesus tattoos on their forearms came and carted my silly ass off to the nut ward. I figure, what do they know, the fucking Nazis!

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Kathleen04

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Wed Jun-22-05 12:09 AM
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4. Haha

Sounds like a sweet ride you got there. :7

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LSK

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Wed Jun-22-05 12:12 AM
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5. right on or slightly better

My car has a fancy computer readout screen with different data and I always keep it on average MPG, which keeps me being a good driver.

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Kathleen04

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Wed Jun-22-05 12:24 AM
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6. Oo cool.. n/t

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KitchenWitch

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Wed Jun-22-05 12:24 AM
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7. About 2 mpg less

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Kathleen04

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Wed Jun-22-05 12:28 AM
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8. Not too bad..

The difference of 6 w/ mine seems a bit much..

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4_Legs_Good

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Wed Jun-22-05 12:46 PM
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10. Sticker: 68 HWY, 62 Town / Reality: 56 HWY/ 52 Town

Though I used to get 62 Highway pretty regularly. The car (Honda Insight of course (manual)) now has 102,000 miles on it and my lifetime MPG is, I believe, 56.2.

david

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Left_Winger

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Wed Jun-22-05 01:03 PM
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11. The sticker on my car was rather accurate

with what the car actually gets.

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Left Is Write

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Wed Jun-22-05 01:08 PM
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12. Pretty much right on target.

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Zomby Woof

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Wed Jun-22-05 01:08 PM
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13. Better

The average for the highway was listed as 34mpg, but on a 300 mile roundtrip I measured it at 38mpg, based on the computer's reading. Average speed was 65mph.

The in-town average matched at 28mpg though, based on my daily commute where I average 30mph.

2005 Nissan Sentra 1.8S, ranked as the one of the Top 15 green cars for its clean exhaust. Since I can't afford a hybrid, I did as best as I could for fuel efficiency and air quality.

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DS1

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Wed Jun-22-05 01:10 PM
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14. Mine is better than the sticker

Someone measuring it must've had a lead foot

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ProfessorGAC

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Wed Jun-22-05 02:10 PM
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16. Pretty Close

Mine said 27/32. I get a pinch under 30 overall. I think that's a pretty good estimate.
The Professor

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Redstone

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Wed Jun-22-05 02:28 PM
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17. Last three I had were better (Jetta, A4, Passat);

this one (Volvo C70 HPT convertible) is worse, probably because it's a fast car so I get on it a lot.

Mrs R's last few: Jeep (terrible), SAAB 9000 (worse), Acura RSX (better), Volvo S60 2.5T AWD (better).

Redstone

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