Welcome HammerZ71! Congrats on the new Accent.

Sounds like you'll be making money at the pumping compared to your Jeep & truck . FYI, my actual MPG is usually 3-4 mpg less than the on-board computer. Interested to see if this is a little closer in the 2013 model.

 

Thank you.

Yeah, with this economy I find myself working a different job making about 40% of what I was making about four years ago. Couldn't justify two lifted, V8, 4x4s of which one was my daily driver. Got out of the Jeep while it still had enough value to give me a good size down payment on the new Accent.

I'll have real, hand calculated MPG numbers to compare when I do my first fill-up so we'll know where it's actually at. Prolly be this weekend as I've put about 185 miles on it so far and still have a hair over half a tank of gas left. Had to run a bunch of errands today, lots of "in-town" driving. Trip computer is down to 37.7 LOL...

 

Marathon, I have to respectfully disagree. I drive 900 highway miles every week, most of them at 70 mph (just to keep from getting run over!) I consistently average 37-38 mpg. I am running a K&N air filter. Perhaps it's because my engine has so many miles on it (199,600 mi?)

 

I'm not quite sure what you're disagreeing with... I drive 95% *city* miles, and that's Los Angeles city driving. When I do get on the freeway, 3/4 of the time I'm using freeways at a grade. And here in LA people drive hills awfully dumb: Race all the way up, ride the brakes all the way down.

Anyway, somehow I'm managing to average 30mpg even in these conditions, although I have no fun when I'm driving, it's all moderate acceleration, more-than-average coasting, and sticking pretty much right on the speed limit at all times.

In other news, my "leather"-wrapped steering wheel is peeling off. Taking it in for the 7500 mile service tomorrow, I'm assuming this will be covered in the warranty.