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So, if I break even on my Escape Hybrid in three years (as is now projected) and I usually keep my vehicles for more than 8 years (minimum battery warranty length), that could be a lot of savings in the out years (who knows what gas prices will be?) Once owners learn how to drive the hybrid and the eCVT, it is not hard to get over or above the rated EPA numbers. And "plug-in" hybrids and conversion kits are coming soon.
I have monitored my '01 MDX for five years and it consistently gets 16 mph on a tank full of short trips around town and 22 - 24 mpg on long trips (loaded down with family and cargo).
I assume it has the same engine that the Pilot has - the Pilot only needs regular unleaded.
thanks
The MDX is tuned for a higher level of performance. The timing, compression, intake & exhaust, and other systems are all tuned to get the most power out of a gallon of gas.
That said, you can run regular in the '06 MDX. For the first generation MDX, premium fuel is recommended, but not required. Sensors in the engine will retard performance and it will operate in a manner not unlike the engine in the Pilot.
With the new '07 MDX, premium fuel is required.
Went from Massachusetts to Chicago, IL and back.
Did some driving while there, but not more than 2 or 3 hours worth of city driving.
I had to fill up 3 times each way, sometimes with the good stuff, sometimes with mid-grade, depending on state and gas prices.
Door to door and back, computer reported a MPG average of 22.9.
paid $34500.
18.7 mpg
15000 droven.
I found the following after 1500 miles.
expressway flat at 55 yields 28
expressway flat at 60 yields 26
expressway at 65 yields 25
500 mile trip on I 44 for xmas. avg speed 65 all interstate yielded a trip avg of 24.4 mpg. I was fully loaded and had a tail wind on first half.
Not bad. However, when driven fun the mpg goes looooooooooow.
Are your numbers based upon the trip computer or fill-ups?
Thanks.
In other words, I don't believe you.
I see you have a little problem with the FE capabilities of the MDX. Why not learn to drive one for what they are easily worth instead of spewing ill will. In other words, welcome to the real world
31.2 mpg in 21 degree F temps during a Chicago Blizzard back in early 2005 while heading to a Harlem Globetrotters game.
33.1 mpg in 82 degree temps while performing local errands around my suburb and back home this past summer.
This is my wife’s personal 2003 Acura MDX so I do not get the opportunity to drive it that often
Good Luck
Wayne R. Gerdes
I don't see anyone getting much more than 21 mpg and that's pure highway driving.
Probably more like 15-17 mpg in combined driving.
Several auto press test-drives list the mpg of the 2007 MDX as a negative. Still a lot better than the Q7, but not great.
How come nobody in the auto press has been able to achieve your results? I mean getting 31 mpg with any MDX would have been headline news. Are you questioning their testers' driving skills too?
Don't show me stats for when the MDX is coasting down Mt. St. Helens with a 100 mile wind gust at one's back. Anybody can create a temporary artificial situation.
Nobody in the real world (who has come forth to write about their experiences) in normal city and highway driving is getting 28-31 mpg with the 2007 MDX.
Have a Happy New Year!
Mileage readings changed dramatically after 600 miles on the car..did anyone else notice this?
Sorry, I don’t own an 07, we own an 03. Those drives were for round trips and I don’t think we have a Mt. St. Helens to coast down w/ a 100 mph tail wind and then drive back up with another 100 mile tail wind from the other direction for the round trip segment. At least not in the Chicago area the last time I looked
Would you like to drive an 07 MDX over to my home and I will punch out 30 + out of it for you too? Pretty easy to do if you care to learn.
Nobody in the real world (who has come forth to write about their experiences) in normal city and highway driving is getting 28-31 mpg with the 2007 MDX.
If I owned an 07, I would
Good Luck and Happy New Year!
Wayne R. Gerdes
I think it would be much more helpful if you were to provide some substantive details about how you achieved those mileage numbers rather than taunting other members with extraordinary claims only to entice or lure them into visiting your own site with those links.
Thanks.
tidester, host
1995 Nissan Maxima SE 5-speed: EPA 22-27; actual MPG: 27.8 to 30.1 estimated average 28.5.
2002 Honda S2000: EPA 20-26; actual: 28.8 to 32.5. Estimated average 31. (28.8 was with the top down, all others 30+).
2004 Acura TL 6-speed: EPA 20-29; actual 28.8 to 32.1. Estimated average 30.5.
2005 MDX: EPA 17-23; actual 22.5 to 26.4. Estimated average 24.5.
2005 Porsche 911S Cab: EPA 18-25; actual 25.5 to 28.1. Estimated average 26.5.
In all of the above cases, my actual highway fuel efficiency for straight highway "cruising" is higher than the EPA estimate. And this is not babying the car at 55 mph downhill downwind, but similar 370 mile trips at 65+ mph, with grades.
I think your cynicism of inkyofok's claim to average 25 mpg at 65 mph cruise in the 2007 MDX is misplaced. The fact that the 2007 V6 has a bit more horsepower than the previous model is insignificant to highway cruising at 65 mph. It's no heavier and perhaps a bit more aerodynamic and the added power actually helps maintain speed on grades. As a matter of fact, we only averaged 19 mpg on our routine trip with our old 1996 Isuzu Trooper 5-speed with 190 horsepower. It had to be downshifted constantly to handle the Pa Trunpike grades.
Tidester: Hopefully this meets your request for "real world" data. But I think your indirect defense of hpowders was also a bit misplaced. I was polite in my response, but someone that states "I don't believe you" as much to say "You're lying" is apt to get a punch in the forehead from me in person.
That was neither my point nor my intent. Even your top MDX mileage (26.5 mpg) is 5 mpg less than the claim made by the original poster (31-33 mpg average). It would certainly be interesting to learn how that was achieved without being enticed to go elsewhere for the information.
I have no problem with the data. I just want to know how it was done.
tidester, host
The host asked him to provide his methodology. So far, nothing but silence in response.
I notice on the highway, she has this odd habit of constantly adjusting her pedal pressure.
On-off-on-off-slightly back on-off-on-... drives me bezerk!!! Ugh, I hate what she drives LOL
Anyway, when I have the car, I'm in the area of 23.8 MPG average.
When she drives, it's an average of 17.
I drive more aggressively than she does, but I don't fiddle with the pedal as she does.
Something as little as that makes a big difference.
I have never gotten the MDX above 25 MPG average for any real amount of time.
Maybe a half mile down hill, but that's about it.
"The only way you can maybe get 28 mpg with the 2007 MDX is if you remove all the seats, have a fraction of one gallon of gas in the tank, fill the tires with helium and have a category 2 hurricane following from behind.
In other words, I don't believe you."
The poster you challenged qualified his MPG experience as 28 mpg at a 55 mph steady cruise and 25 mpg at a 65 mpg steady cruise.
Although I would fall asleep or be run over from behind trying to test a 55 mph cruise on our MDX, the 25 mpg at 65 mph is completely consistent with our experience, using cruise control for long highway trips.
LOL, My mother-in-law must be from the same gene pool as your wife. After the second automatic transmission replacement on their Saab, the mechanic went out with her for a drive, called my father-in-law and told him to either buy a manual transmission (w/o a torque converter) or divorce her. Apparantly, doing the herky jerky on the gas pedal is not only bad for fuel efficiency, it's one of the worst things you can do to an automatic transmission.
Because posts get buried here at Edmunds, you cannot do much with a 15 page post and have to post it again and again and again over the years. When I link Edmunds from CleanMPG, it can be found quite easily I asked Sylvia to build a Mileage DBase years ago and of course none can be found
As for the details, Google my name and you will find all kinds of details from tens of other sites on how you get 30 + in an MDX, 60 + in an Accord, 120 + in a Prius II and 195 + in an Insight ... Those are long distance segment peaks however.
Good Luck
Wayne R. Gerdes
The "MPG-Real World Numbers" discussions constitute a database.
you cannot do much with a 15 page post
The question was how do you achieve the numbers you claim? 15 pages and dozens of sites sounds way too complicated but a "Reader's Digest" version here will do nicely.
tidester, host
Real word FE discussions in a forum do not represent a Mileage DBase. Click the link in my sig and you have a real mileage DBase.
These links will be buried in this forum within a matter of weeks but here you go even though Edmunds hates for me to link to other sites
Beating the EPA - The Why’s and how to Hypermile.
Adapting Basic Hypermiling Techniques to the HCH-II
Hypermiling the Ford Escape Hybrid ...
Pulse and Glide plus Warp Stealth in the Prius II for maximum FE
External Factors Affecting Mileage, or why “YMMV”
How to save gas - Hypermiling 50 years ago!
This is how you receive > 30 mpg from an 01 – 06 or the new 07 MDX’s. Whether one chooses to do so is entirely up to him or her.
Good Luck
Wayne R. Gerdes
Kudos on being so diplomatic with this guy. I look to this thread to see how my mileage compares w/ other owners of '04 and '07 MDX and have offered my own suggestions from time to time(e.g. the "Tornado"). Is there no rule that you can't have a link to your own website on these threads? I get enough garbage from infommercials and junk mail.
Well, this IS a Forum! Perhaps you missed the handy search function located at the top of this page. I notice your forum has one too.
Let's take the general discussion over to Fuel Economy: Most bang for your buck since your points are not really vehicle specific and you've been given more than adequate opportunity to promote your own site - which, BTW, is not the purpose of THIS Forum.
Thanks for your input, Wayne.
tidester, host
Is there no rule that you can't have a link to your own website on these threads?
Yes, we do have such rules but we're progressing toward amending them. Think "kinder and gentler!"
Links will be allowed if they are directly pertinent to the ongoing discussion but chronic linking to or blatant promotion of other sites will remain unacceptable.
And don't get me started on spam! :mad:
Thanks to you, also, for all your comments!
tidester, host
that varies by vehicle. speed limits still apply if you don't want to get a ticket.
when driving hwy only: 20.3 mpg
that's with slight improvement after 500 miles driven
regardless of gas prices, i'm enjoying my MDX
We have considered the possibility of trading our 2005 for a 2008 - what is the best highway mileage the new MDX gets? I know city and mixed drivign vary considerably based upon conditions, but the highway mileage is usually a good basis for comparison.
We have considered the possibility of trading our 2005 for a 2008 - what is the best highway mileage the new MDX gets? I know city and mixed drivign vary considerably based upon conditions, but the highway mileage is usually a good basis for comparison.
P.S. Friends of ours out west own a Highlander Hybrid. They like it, but are a childless couple and don't need the room the MDX provides. However, the Highlanders fuel efficiency advantage is stricly in the city, where they still average 22+. On the highway, running purely on gas but carrying the extra battery weight, they get WORSE mileage than our MDX.
Usually in the 18-19 range on a normal split of 20% highway, 80% city.
This is incredible mileage IMO from a 300hp mill pulling 4600 pounds, plus cargo, with AWD engaged. You probably won't get better mileage on the highway if this thing was a hybrid, or had another gear. Running at 85 mph only turning 2400 rpms.
We are considering trading for a 2008 or 2009 MDX before our warranty expires. I don't consider the new model's slightly lower fuel economy to be a detriment, given the better performance. But we will try out the new Cayenne with 290hp linked to a 6-speed manual, assuming we can live without the third row seats. Even after having the new MDX as a loaner several times, I've concluded Acura's automatic transmissions are, IMO, their weakest link. Fortunately, my wife agrees and is more than happy to go to a manual, if it makes sense.
If it's because you would save $15-$25 a month on gas, that just doesn't seem like a good enough reason, especially since the MDX is one of the top vehicles for resale value.
At 15,000 m/year, 18mpg, $.30/gal....that comes to $250/year (more or less) on a $45,000 vehicle. :confuse:
Could people please respond to me and give me MPG and type of driving done.
Thanks
George