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GMC Acadia Real World MPG

60 messages,  Last post on Aug 03, 2009 at 1:23 PM

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Re: MPG [chezky] by shoshy5
Aug 07, 2008 (4:17 pm)
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Replying to: chezky (Dec 25, 2007 2:19 am)

we only get 8.2 miles per gallon city NORMAL driving. my armada got b/w 10-11 mpg. just got it about a month ago have to fill it up every 5-6 days and summmer were hardly driving like the schoolyear . the dealer said maybe the computer needs to be adjusted, is the computer eating my gas? also when i accelerate the car kind of kicks like its trying to catch up to speed.
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MPG by txbricklayer
Dec 29, 2008 (8:19 am)
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Drove to San Antonio and back from Houston over Christmas. 2008 Acadia had 22mpg going to SA and 28 coming back. Wind power rules!
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Re: Gas mileage experiance? [lukesdaddy] by acadiaregret
Aug 03, 2009 (10:49 am)
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Replying to: lukesdaddy (May 12, 2007 4:47 am)

I have an 08 AWD Acadia and I get 10 mpg city / 14 mpg hwy
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Re: Gas mileage experiance? [acadiaregret] by stdavis
Aug 03, 2009 (12:01 pm)
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Replying to: acadiaregret (Aug 03, 2009 10:49 am)

If you find any solutions let me know GMC sure doesn't have any. We have never achieved anything better the 12.5-13.5 in town with very little mix of highway and 17-19 on the road. Makes me regret trading the 99 Tahoe that did better and had much more horse power and performance. At least I knew I was giving up fuel economy for performace with the Acadia I get neither.
All GMC could offer was keeping the Nitogen pressure (which is a joke as far as I can tell) in the tires at 38-40 and using 100% gas with no ethanol. I think this results in about 1 mile per gallon difference.
There where rumurs that GMC would come out with a better automatic shifting algorithm for the transmission, but I have never seen it.
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My experience by loach
Aug 03, 2009 (1:23 pm)
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Now that my '08 AWD Acadia is broken in, we've been getting mostly 13-14 MPG city and 20-24 MPG highway depending on conditions. We've never come close to getting the 16 MPG city EPA rating, but easily beat the 22 MPG highway rating if the conditions are favorable.
 
I consider these numbers to be well within reasonable tolerances. The Acadia is a bit of a pig in stop and go traffic, but really shines on the highway for a vehicle this size.

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