2012 Accent Fuel Economy
#71
Just bought a new 2013 Saturday, took it on a "tour" Sunday and put about 120 miles on the odometer. Mostly 55 mph limit county roads with a couple 35 mph jaunts through towns with a few stop signs and traffic lights. According to the trip computer I'm averaging 43.4 mpg.
HUGE difference for me. The '02 Grand Cherokee 4x4 I sold to buy this got about 16 mpg in mixed driving and my lifted 4x4 truck gets about 13 mpg, LOL...
HUGE difference for me. The '02 Grand Cherokee 4x4 I sold to buy this got about 16 mpg in mixed driving and my lifted 4x4 truck gets about 13 mpg, LOL...
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.
#72
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...
Last edited by HammerZ71; 08-07-2012 at 04:29 PM.
#73
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?)
#74
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.
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.
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