Mazda CX-5 Real World MPG
Please report your gas mileage for your CX-5 here.
Feel free to add any details - city/highway, driving style, etc.
Thanks!
Feel free to add any details - city/highway, driving style, etc.
Thanks!
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Thanks for the report; be curious to hear if your mpg improves over the next 10 tanks or so.
Gauges are pretty accurate these days, but you may want to manually check a tank or two too.
When I lived in Boise the past decade, I used cruise in town a lot (my van will cruise at 35 mph). Otherwise I was always catching myself speeding without realizing it and cruise probably saved me from a ticket or two.
But I read that the trip odometer on CX-5
is around 5% off, so instead of going by the ave mileage readout I did the math and while the readout said 29.5 the math said 27.5. I'll keep checking and using the same pump when I fill up.
Last reading of 29.5MPG is really 27.5MPG when you do the math.
2014 Mazda CX-5: Fuel Economy Update for April
2014 Long-Term Road Test
I took a road trip to Denver (Brighton, CO) and back this spring. On the segment from Des Moines to Brighton, I started with a completely full tank, having a total cargo weight of about 450 lbs, including occupants and luggage. Conditions were clear and dry and not particularly windy.
At the start of the Des Moines segment I had just under 16000 km (10K miles) on the odometer.
Started with a full tank and ran it to pretty much bone dry. For anyone that has driven I-80 through this part of the U.S., it is pretty much as flat and straight as you will find. I had noticed previously that pushing the vehicle north of 60 MPH has a dramatic affect on the MPG, so for this test I set the cruise at 60 MPH and left it there.
Results:
Mileage: 735 km ==> 456.7 miles
Tank refill: 13.2 gallons
MPG: 34.5
I was surprised, but pretty much exactly what the MPG claim of 35 MPG highway was.
-craig
Have you done any more testing to know how much the actual impact is if you drive more "enthusiastically", say in the highway at 75 or 80 mph? Also, have you done any testing in city driving, both pampering the pedal and also aggressively?
Cheers,
Best regards,
elbaz
Since the calculations were done so meticulously and show the MPG at highway while being careful, I wanted to know how much the hit is for being above the 60mph range. For example, maybe 65mph is just 1MPG, but 75mph is 10MPG.
Love the car otherwise, but was definitely hoping to be in the 25-27 range with mixed city/highway driving.
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