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Given the topic of this thread some of you may find parts of this relevant:
http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123636065
http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123636065
Mazda5 real-world Mileage numbers
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- 2006 Mazda 5 GT 5spd
Medicman said:
Is that mostly Hwy 401 driving?
meackerman
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mixed driving (60 city/40 highway) we're getting about 23mpg, dunno about my other half, but I tend to launch pretty quickly off the line at stoplights and such, its a fun car to drive.
I tested highway mpg yesterday -- 68 mile round trip, 64 of which were on the highway at 70mph and I got 30.8 mpg with the air running most the way back. with 4 speed auto.
I tested highway mpg yesterday -- 68 mile round trip, 64 of which were on the highway at 70mph and I got 30.8 mpg with the air running most the way back. with 4 speed auto.
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meackerman said:
A 68 mile road trip is not nearly enough to get a good reading on what your mileage was. Too many other factors in play to give you an accurate number.
Make it a 1000 mile trip of all highway and maybe then you'll have a better idea of what you're really getting.
meackerman
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Yep thats true. But I was interested in what the freeway mileage was, and it was easy to find out with this trip. Since I don't usually drive the car, and its usually driven around town, shuttle service for the kids, it's hard to find out what the freeway mileage is.
We'll be taking a trip up through Oregon later in the summer, which will be mostly freeway miles, so I'll have a better idea then.
We'll be taking a trip up through Oregon later in the summer, which will be mostly freeway miles, so I'll have a better idea then.
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Ok - all you folks out there getting 300+ miles out of a single tank - something I cannot seem to do - am I having a problem here? Should I be pressuring my service department to look a little deeper?
I can't seem to shake the 19-20mpg range. Every now and then I get a glimpse of the good mileage but then right back down.
My wife and I are not aggressive drivers but we also don't drive like grandparents either. We do mostly city driving with some highway mixed in - generally I'd say 70/30 split between city/highway
I'm on tank #30 and the average is 21.7mpg.
My best tank was all highway at 28.5mpg and my lowest was a SUVish 16.4mpg
I'm at a loss... any thoughts?
I can't seem to shake the 19-20mpg range. Every now and then I get a glimpse of the good mileage but then right back down.
My wife and I are not aggressive drivers but we also don't drive like grandparents either. We do mostly city driving with some highway mixed in - generally I'd say 70/30 split between city/highway
I'm on tank #30 and the average is 21.7mpg.
My best tank was all highway at 28.5mpg and my lowest was a SUVish 16.4mpg
I'm at a loss... any thoughts?
We just came back from a trip from Pittsburgh. The 5 (auto) was loaded with two adults, two kids, a stroller, suitcases (who knew a 3 yr old and 3 month old would need to bring so much clothes), and a pack n play.
We filled up the tank 3 times and got:
tank#1 26mpg - mostly highway driving on the PA turnpike trying to keep it at 70-75 mph
tank#2 27.8mpg - driving in and around pittsburgh. Still mostly highways
tank#3 22mpg - coming back to DC on I-68 climbing mountains and running around 80 mph
We filled up the tank 3 times and got:
tank#1 26mpg - mostly highway driving on the PA turnpike trying to keep it at 70-75 mph
tank#2 27.8mpg - driving in and around pittsburgh. Still mostly highways
tank#3 22mpg - coming back to DC on I-68 climbing mountains and running around 80 mph
mazdaFIVEmike said:
How fast are you driving on the highways? I've found that right around 70mph seems to be the magic number for me. When I go above that, the mileage per gallon drops a lot. But if I stay right at 70mph or a little below it, I can squeeze almost 28mpg.
My wife who does a lot of stop and go driving around town is getting around 21mpg on each fill up.
The other possibility is the type of gas you use. We buy gas from Costco, and recently they started adding ethanol to the gas (~10%). I'm starting to see a slight drop in mpg.
My 2 cents...
I average between 320-340 miles per tank before the light comes on in mostly mixed city/hwy driving. More often than not when I calculate mpg it is right around 26. If I had to come up with an overall average, it would be 26. I've done better (29) on all highway and worse (22) on mostly city/hwy traffic.
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Wuster said:
Maybe its just the nature of the beast in the city I live in. Our "highway" driving is not really "freeway" driving. In Victoria, British Columbia - a city on the southern tip of Vancouver Island - the highway has a max speed of 90kph or 56mph - setting the cruise at 70mph is not really possible. There are too many traffic signals and heavy traffic to really get going for a sustained period of time.
Having said all that - I'm still not getting the mileage Mazda says for city driving.
was98strat
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mazdaFIVEmike said:
I'm getting slightly better than spec. Just filled up with 47.24 litres for 485kms for an avg of 9.75 l per 100km. about 75% city (Toronto city!! never get about 70 with all the traffic!)
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Phantom_5 said:
So you are getting about 340miles out of a tank driving competely around town?
Count yourself as one of the lucky ones then.
