Took First Road trip in our 2018 CX-5..36.1 MPG!
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Traffic dictates the speed around long island
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- 2021 CX-9 Sig
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- 2021 CX-5 GT
Here is a simple math lesson, what would your average speed have to be to get there 60 minutes or 90 minutes earlier than they guy going 65 mph?
And yes, it is not that complicated but goes to the lunacy of your post.
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- State of Jefferson
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- 2017 CX-5 GT AWD+
He's using his flux capacitor.
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- RDX Aspec Adv.
This is the first vehicle I've ever owned that wouldn't beat EPA numbers on my highway driving though. Everything else would meet or exceed at 75mph.
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- 2021 CX-9 Sig
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- 2021 CX-5 GT
And you are complaining about that? Really? With a completely loaded car - full of stuff in the trunk, 4 people in the car and two bikes on the back, I have been as low at 24-26 on the highway doing 80 MPH. That of course, is almost expected.
All my mileage has been tracked for the last 100,000 miles. I can easily achieve all of Mazda's EPA numbers and this is a in an AWD 2014 GT. And if you go on Fuelly, most people seem to be getting the reported mileage.
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- 2021 CX-9 Sig
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- 2021 CX-5 GT
I really think the level of stupidity is getting comical. On the CX-9 facebook page, a guy was asking why the inside of his tail pipe had black stuff in it. People here are complaining about their gas mileage dropping at higher speeds, and another guy thinks he can drive 10 mph faster and get to a place (220 miles away) 90 minutes faster.
(headshake
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- Plano, Texas, USA
An AWD CX-5 getting 36.1 mpg on the highway is truely impressive no matter what. The best ever highway mpg on my 2016 AWD CX-5 was 30.2 mpg while driving under 70 mph all the way from Houston to Dallas.
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- Denver, CO
Very impressive. Wondering how an AWD hit those numbers. Is it the cylinder deactivation? (scratch)
clownshoes2
2017 CX-5 GT No Tech - 2023 CX-30 GT NA
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- CX-5
60-90 minutes? Gimme some of what you're smoking. We drove from Canada to Ohio this June and over the drive (700miles+) you might be able to shave an hour off your time. That is provided that you never slow down from 70-80 miles an hour, ever. And that's based on a 700 mile trip.
The difference between a 220 mile trip at 60mph and 70mph is 39 minutes.
Math is fun.
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- Plano, Texas, USA
Complaining? I'm only stating the fact and experience I have on my 2016 AWD CX-5. And I have the same experience with Unobtanium that this's the first vehicle I've ever owned that wouldn't beat EPA numbers on my highway driving. As stated before, my current CR-V、528i、Passat would meet or exceed EPA highway MPG at 75+ mph with the same load、on the same highway、and even in the same season!
People are also ignoring a fact that each vehicle coming out of factory is different on engine efficiency. Some would get better mpg than others with exactly the same driving conditions. A friend of mine was getting average 30+ mpg on his previous 2015 FWD CX-5 as a daily driver to work, but his current 2016.5 FWD CX-5 can only get at most 29 mpg as his diaily driver with exactly the same driving conditions.
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- Denver, CO
When there is a difference like that...maybe it's the driver, not the conditions... (uhm)
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- Plano, Texas, USA
Very possible although EPA FE numbers have also reflected the effectiveness of cylinder deactivation with 1 mpg increase.
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- Denver, CO
EPA isn't the end all be all.
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- Plano, Texas, USA
I've already said, same driver, same everything!
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- Denver, CO
Same driver doesn't mean same driving.
And you dont even drive a Gen 1 which is bigger and bloaty compared to Gen 2. Hypermiling my best highway mpg was 31. FWD 16. In mixed I can hit 28-29 easy.
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- Denver, CO
Eh? I think you got that backwards as the Gen 2 weighs more and is slower than Gen 1.
