[Booktrope]

Big news, automobile manufacturer inflates gas mileage! Really!

If anyone here has had a car that actually got the stated mileage in real world conditions, please let me know.

I live on top of a hill and every single car I've ever owned, including, Honda, Toyota, Ford, Nissan, Dodge, Volvo that I recall right now has gotten oh, about 30% lower mileage than advertised. due to that pesky law of gravity that requires energy to be expended going up and down.

But even when I lived in leveller locales, cars never got the EPA rated mileage, except once, when I drove a Honda with a CVCC engine on a road trip through level countryside at about 45 miles per hour all day. I got terrific mileage. I never did it again.

[kccqzy]

Your comment is just publicly broadcasting your ineptitude at efficient driving. I regularly beat EPA estimates in both the EV I have and the ICE car I had.

You can read more about EPA mileage testing: https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPURL.cgi?Dockey=P100IENB.TXT I've personally found it to be fair and reflects the real world quite well.

[Sohcahtoa82]

> If anyone here has had a car that actually got the stated mileage in real world conditions, please let me know.

I owned a 2016 Subaru BRZ, stickered at 24 mpg city/30 mpg highway, and over the 3 years I owned it, I averaged 32 mpg.

My previous car was a 2000 Suzuki Esteem, stickered at I think 27/32. I averaged 28 city, 35 highway.

I now have a Model 3 Performance, estimated 300 mile range. I get 230-270 miles depending on the weather.

[Marsymars]

> If anyone here has had a car that actually got the stated mileage in real world conditions, please let me know.

Depends on driving style. I drive a manual Ford Fiesta (with worse specced fuel efficiency than the automatic) living in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, and it's abnormal for me not to get better fuel economy than the automatic's spec.