I don't buy that as typical for mostly highway driving. I am averaging 26mpg right now with probably 50/50 driving. Summer I average 27/28. It was stated from that he warms his car up for 10 min as well so that mpg calculation is not accurate.
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I don't buy that as typical for mostly highway driving. I am averaging 26mpg right now with probably 50/50 driving. Summer I average 27/28. It was stated from that he warms his car up for 10 min as well so that mpg calculation is not accurate.
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Interesting. I have been to MD, but I don't recall the speed limits or normal transit speeds there. I drive 70-75 on the freeway. Drops mileage like a rock. Then the stop/go of typical traffic, and you;re looking at 22-24ish
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Yup. 100%. If you are getting 22 MPG driving 50/50 highway. It is either you or you have a lemon. I get 28-30 driving highway ~70-75. Mileage drops to 26-27 when I approach 80 MPH. I have done almost twenty 500 mile I-95 trips in 2016 as evidence. All in Fuelly.
My mileage in overall driving (average speed of 25 mph) is 26.4 MPG. This is for a 2014 GT AWD.
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Same. I have FWD which gets 1-2 mpg higher on average.
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FWD CX-5 should get 3 mpg higher than AWD CX-5 according to EPA:
2016 Mazda CX-5 FWD: 29/26/33 Combined/City/Highway
2016 Mazda CX-5 AWD: 26/24/30 or 26/24/29 (Revised) Combined/City/Highway
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According to the reviews I watched, and they were many, AWD was 1 or 2 worse.
Either way MPG was the last reason I bought this car. But getting near 28 in straight city driving was a shock to me.
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Either way MPG was the last reason I bought this car. But getting near 28 in straight city driving was a shock to me.
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While it may be a good resource on fuel economy for other vehicles, but it's not for Mazda CX-5 due to the largest gap at 3 mpg based on EPA fuel economy ratings between FWD and AWD; and Fuelly data have mixed FWD and AWD CX-5's with no information of the percentage between the two.
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With all the new technologies for fuel efficiency we should expect a good mpg even on a compact CUV. Our AWD CX-5 is constantly getting 25~26 mpg with all city driving which is the best among all the older vehicles we've owned. But my point has always been the fuel economy gap between FWD and AWD on CX-5 is too large comparing to other compact CUV's; and the real world mpg, especially for AWD CX-5 on highway driving, can't meet the EPA highway rating.
Here is a recent example a new 2017 Nissan Rogue SL owner gets 31 mpg without putting any extra effort like you did on your FWD CX-5 for 27.9 mpg:
Jalopnik test drove the Chevy Bolt. It has a large touch screen display and over 100 hwy / city mpg numbers.
238 mi range - For Cali it might be had for 31k USD - dont know what kind of discounts Chevy will be offering.
6.5 secs 0 to 60 as well vrooom vroooom.
238 mi range - For Cali it might be had for 31k USD - dont know what kind of discounts Chevy will be offering.
6.5 secs 0 to 60 as well vrooom vroooom.
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You're lucky you've got a more fuel efficient sample of a 2016.5 AWD CX-5! Ours can't never get 27 mpg in city driving no matter how "casual" I've tried. I know some AWD CX-5 owners can also easily get 30 mpg on the highway but definitely not on our AWD CX-5.
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My average speed is 32-34mph, and average mpg is 22.5-23.5 typically for any given tank. Car works great, all these "lemon theories" crack me up. I just live in an area with looonnnng inclines, and drive 75ish quite often. MPG at 95mph is a hair under 15, at 85mph, it's around 16-17, also as datapoints, tested over a 25 mile span each. This car just isn't meant to be driven like a tourer. It's a citycar.
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So many driving speeds and locations and AWD vs. FWD that isn't accountable though. Almost a worthless resource. Might as well blend the Subaru Forester results with the CX5 results. It makes as much sense.
There are crude filters you can apply such as the trim and engine size. Example are 2.0 CX-5's. You can see there's a spike in people reporting 29, 31, and 32 MPGs out of 90 owners. Fuelly isn't exact? Well DUH. AWD vs FWD? Dude that's common sense. Its just people reporting their MPGs coming from all sorts of variables. Its crude trending statistics of real world usage.
One person can tell other folks the Mazda CX-5 2.5l AWD gets "them" 22MPGs all day long while also telling them their exact coordinates, speed, outside temperature, octane rating, altitude, tires, what they ate for breakfast lol. You know what who cares? Its totally worthless to another person also with a Mazda CX-5 2.5l AWD that gets them 29MPGs. And vice versa...or is it?
My friend has a Forester and his avg mpg reads 24.xx but he does short trips. I have been getting 28.5 .. i am impressed but will try to push past 30 after first oil change. My alternator usage is very low. Display turned off mostly and fan off at lights. Hoping to see gains if I disable DRL. Its not efficient as LEDs. Also thinking of replacing my rear and internal lights with led.
Does CX5 12v socket charge car battery? Is it live?
Does CX5 12v socket charge car battery? Is it live?
I can't imagine the lights will have hardly any effect. Even turning off the A/C only gets about 1 mpg.
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The alternator on a vehicle of mine froze up once. 90's police car. We broke it loose and it turned freely/didn't charge. I drove the car for a day and a half on just the battery alone, no alternator input. Operating a vehicle, as you state, doesn't burn much juice, really.
Was reading an article on alternator impact on mpg - if you completely get rid of it and the weight gain + less engine draig helps you get 7-11% more in mpg. Ofcourse it was extreme like the guys who manage 60 mpg on civics etc.- I think there are easier mpg gains to be had by replacing wheels with lighter ones and efficient hubcaps or lowering it a bit.
Other day saw a super hyper miler during office hour rush traffic on an internal road - was doing 32 in a 45 zone .. people were pissed.
