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| I like most of the posters are achieving better than posted EPA mileage ratings. I have a 2008 Touring model and have put 7,400 miles on it and am averaging 29-31 mpg on gas that does not contain the 10% ethanol blend. The 10% ethanol blend drops the mileage to just under 27mpg so I avoid it. | |
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Whoa...I just did a highway trip with my 07-5sp stick and got 32mpg!! Awesome especially with 5 people and luggage in the car and I was average about 65. Love that! |
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| We just purchased our Mazda5 sport automatic yesterday and it should arrive on Wednesday this week. I'm thrilled to read such amazing MPG reports here! Glad we stuck with the Mazda5 over the Kia Rondo. Can hardly wait to test this baby out! | |
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Replying to: KarenS (Jul 22, 2005 7:51 am) |
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After a day of fun in the sun, why not stop in for some chat with your fellow CarSpace members? The Mazda Club Chat is on tonight. The chat room opens at 8:45PM ET Hope to see YOU there! Check out the schedule |
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I got my Mazda5 about 2 months ago and I've just put gas in it for the first time! I'm retired and haven't driven much but I went 359 miles on 13.9 gallons ($55 for a fill up!), which comes out to 25.1 MPG for almost all city driving. I'm OK with that. Hope that continues. 
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Replying to: kivo (Jun 09, 2008 12:41 pm)
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Replying to: maltb (Jun 10, 2008 3:37 pm) At the last oil change, the mechanic talked me into a synthetic, (penzoil 7500), and the first tank afterwards was up about 1.5 mpg from what I've been getting. The tank got 31.9 mpg, and that included about 90 miles of light trailer towing and getting caught in chicago hwy constuction. I would have expected on past experience to get 30 mpg with this sort of driving. Its only 1 tank through so far, but I will keep track and report back with further tanks. |
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am wondering at 70 MPH with the AC on and four people (assuming adults) and luggage if the 5 has ample power at that configuration? Also would appreciate any other input you would offer before I purchase.-Thanks We just put 1400 miles on a trip to ATL from DC area. Lots of hwy driving. Two adults Two kids Full load of lugagge. My husband could not believe how fantastic the car drove. We were cruising at 70 the whole way. He could not believe it was a 4 cyl. engine. We aren't quite sure about the gas mileage, but it is around 30 mpg. I have a question about the gas tank. The manual says it holds 16 gallons. We never ran out of gas, but when we got close to empty we filled up and couldn't put even 14 gallons in. Is it really a 16 gallon tank? |
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I just got my Mazda5 Sport AT about five weeks ago. I like it fine, except I am not getting close to the MPG people are talking about here. Before I take it to the dealer, I thought I'd see if the folks here could help me look less stupid than I otherwise might. Here's the scenario: The car was delivered with a more-or-less full tank. Since I wasn't sure exactly how full it was, I didn't really check my mpg on that tank. The "check engine" light came on about three weeks ago, within a few miles after I filled the tank the first time. I immediately checked the gascap, which did seem loose, so I snugged it down. Then I waited for the light to go out. But two weeks later (with a minimum of two on-and-off sequences a day during that period), the check engine light was still on -- it had never gone out. When I re-filled the tank, I discovered that I had only gotten about 17 mpg (75% city, 25%highway). Based on something I saw here, I went to the local Autozone, and got sthem to plug in their reader, which confirmed that the light related to the emission system -- which seemed to fit with the (previously) loose gascap. (They also turned the light off for me, which I have since been told may have been some kind of no-no.) I'm halfway through my third tank of gas. Though the idiot light hasn't come back on, the gauge still seems to be going down awfully fast. Curiously, I went 45 miles before the needle got below "Full," but since then it's been dropping like a stone. I'm clearly not averaging any better than on the previous tankfull. So what does anyone think is going on? Other than MPG, it seems to be running fine. Could a briefly loosened gascap have created some sort of mixture problem that would not be self-correcting? Is there anything I can do that won't cost me a couple of hours at the dealership? |
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