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117 messages, Last post on Aug 10, 2009 at 4:17 PM
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My last tank I got 356 miles. I am on mostly highway and very little city and I still have the stock tires. My car isn't even really broken in yet!
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Stock tires, 30k miles. I love this vehicle but MPG is the one thing that makes me feel guilty about buying it. Yeah, I know, I know ,it's not THAT bad, but it's not all that much better then the cars I owned growing up. Granted it's a huge rolling box, my dog loves it, the wife and I can sleep in it on a futon (!)...but still. Sometimes I kid myself that taking out the back seats will reduce the weight and increase the MPG. The best MPG I ever got was 27mpg on a road-trip that was 90% hwy and actually had a Yakima box on the top! Weird. I have an 11 mile commute. Usually I get 24. I'm not an aggressive driver but I have my moments. BTW, I think the tank is 15.9 gallons (according to the manual) but the gas light comes on at about 12 gallons. |
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hi everyone, i am looking at a used 2007 and am hoping that it gets better mileage than most of you are stating. should i assume that the 2007 because of the 5sp auto trans will do a little bit better? the one i am looking at has only 5,000 miles on it-wondering if gas mileage is why they got rid of it.
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Replying to: lablover2 (Jun 04, 2007 3:08 am) |
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| 20,800 miles on odometer, I get 20mpg, replaced stock tires after 11,000miles *grumble* | |
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Filled ours up yesterday...We got 23.5mpg, with mostly city driving on this last tank. This vehicle typically only gets driven to and from work by my wife, and stays garaged the rest of the time. I have only had it on 1 highway trip since we got it 15 months ago, and we got 26 mpg on that trip if I recall correctly. |
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I was so mad this past week about my MPG!!!!!! I went and stayed at my friends house, who lives in Wheeling, West Virginia. I only got 14 MPG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have never gotten that bad of MPG. My best was 30, all highway. I hope not every time I drive in the city I will get that bad of mileage. I just hit 1,040 miles on my '07 EX 4wd Auto. I wonder what went wrong. |
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| Drove my Element ('06 4wd, Auto) on a 360 mile (each way) trip to the beach. Trip consisted of a mix of highway, and back roads. Used the a/c part of the way, and had the windows down for part. Just me and my wife, and 2 weeks worth of crap (stuffed to the gills). We got 27mpg each way. | |
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