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108 messages, Last post on Jul 01, 2009 at 5:41 PM
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| Please report on your Tucson's gas mileage here. Please include your odometer reading, driving style, city/highway numbers or anything else you think may help others. | |
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Replying to: steve_ (Jul 11, 2006 11:52 am) Want to sell it..anyone want it????
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Replying to: mboyer (Jul 08, 2006 8:35 am) B.) lack of power or just poor planning on a potentially close pass on a two lane road? They are adequate, not a V-8 but sufficient to make most overtakes safely. C.) did you perform a test drive on both city streets and a higher speed drive on an interstate to determine if this car met your needs? Yes, test drives are not long enough so that is why I rent cars of the type I am consider buying. |
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Replying to: mboyer (Jul 08, 2006 8:35 am) |
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Replying to: mboyer (Jul 08, 2006 8:35 am) The dealer did a test by filling the vehicle and driving it 100kms and re-fueling it from the same pump, he claims to have gotten 45 mpg. This is more of an insult than a test. I like the vehicle and have 30000kms on it since Feb. 06, I just wish I could increase and average closer to what the manufacturer advertised for gas mileage.
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Replying to: rcaslick (Jul 10, 2006 2:45 pm) I have make my usual speech here about "advertised" fuel economy because apparently people still don't get it. The EPA mandates every new car, truck, SUV be tested by an outmoded test first devised in the 1970's. Every manufacturer submits a sample of every vehicle they make and the EPA subjects these to that obsolete test that simulates a city cycle...by simulate I mean they test the car on a dyno indoors and the car never actually gets driven. The highway test does have the car being driven for some short period at artificially slow speeds (I think 60 mph or a bit more) and in no way does any of this testing produce anything remotely what Mr Joe public (you and me) will actually get in use so you complain...I'm not getting what the manufacturer, by God, said I would get!! That EPA sticker says, if you care to read the fine print, these numbers are estimates and are to be used for comparison purposes with other vehicles within the same size and type i.e. small-size SUV's. And this is important..it is NOT an advertisement placed there by Hyundai (or any other manufacturer) that promises you WILL obtain the posted numbers. There are published articles by various national magazines...Consumer Reports...among others that detail how and why that little window sticker is almost totally wrong. And before I get blasted by owners who say that they regularly get as much or better than the sticker I say "good for you" and you must be living right and driving slow..
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Replying to: targettuning (Jul 11, 2006 4:39 am) The EPA is supposedly revising the test to make the numbers more real but I didn't see a link off-hand. The CR study just used new cars for their testing if I'm reading the article right (link) - my cars have always better mpg after they've broken in a bit. Steve, Host
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Replying to: steve_ (Jul 11, 2006 6:25 am) Yes the vehicles Consumer Reports used are new cars they purchase for their normal testing BUT in other articles on how they perform their testing they always state they perform proper break-in proceedures before official testing so the cars are not "0" miles new. Their biggest concern was the "city" rating (it had the largest discrepency) but the highway rating also didn't track. And as always mileage varies depending on many variables. Finally, yes again, the EPA itself acknowledges its own testing is outdated and also flawed (it never was very accurate) and has set out to revise the test to reflect more real world numbers. How they will fare this time remains to be seen.
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Replying to: targettuning (Jul 11, 2006 8:56 am) Steve, Host
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Replying to: steve_ (Jul 11, 2006 9:05 am)
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