Who did the promising (of that estimate)?
First 2 tanks under 24 mpg; am I don't something wrong?
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Who did the promising (of that estimate)?
Bladecutter
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- 2014 Mazda CX-5 Touring
I don't know who "they" are that you are referring to, but it certainly wasn't Mazda.
The 2.5 GT AWD CX-5 is rated to 6.6 L per 100 km.
You're not even getting very close to 900 km per tank if you ran it all the way to empty, and had your cruise control set to 80 km/h.
58 liters of fuel in the tank divided by 6.6 L per 100 km travelled at highway speed means you might hit 878 km's on a single tank.
YOU must have thought you would get the same mileage as the FWD manual transmission car, which uses 5.7 L per 100 km.
That one might be capable of touching a 1000 km tank on one shot.
56 liters of fuel in the tank divided by 5.7 L per 100 km travelled at highway speed means you might hit 982 km's on a single tank.
Here's where I got my numbers from:
http://www.atlanticmazda.ca/style/357177_2014-Mazda-CX-5-FWD+4dr+Man+GX.html
http://www.atlanticmazda.ca/style/357182_2014-Mazda-CX-5-AWD+4dr+Auto+GT.html
No one told you you would get that type of fuel economy with a 2.5 AWD GT.
Nice try, though.
BC.
Second tank today, and first 'real' fill up since I don't know at what mileage the dealer filled it up. 28.2, with only 500 miles on the car, not too bad at all really. About 75% highway or 55mph+ driving, but I'm still happy enough with that. To the person claiming 35mpg, on a 2014 AWD, I don't believe you for a second, sorry 
Not all driving, even highway driving is equivalent. On a trip in late march, I got 34 mpg through 3/4 of a tank. This was confirmed by doing the math on the fuel, not just looking at the car readout. The secret was, it was nearly all down hill... When I do round trip highway driving back and forth over the same highway I can usually get 30-31. Overall average is consistently 27.5 tank after tank. This is at 7800 miles on the 2.5L AWD GT.
MarineMike
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- 2014 Mazda CX-5 Touring AWD Sky Blue w/Bose-Moonroof Package
Just got back today from a 4 day camping trip with the family. Had the car loaded in the cargo area, a good few 100 lbs, as well as having about 300 lbs on the cargo hitch, 2 labs, baby, and two adults. It was 264 miles round trip and I averaged 30.1 with manual calculation after I filled up a little bit ago. I was also driving around picking up wood and misc groceries that we forgot to bring. I'm very happy with those numbers. My car has about 2400 miles on it too.
