Outstanding MPG on the Road From Moab - 2014 Jeep Cherokee Limited Long-Term Road Test

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edited June 2015 in Jeep
imageOutstanding MPG on the Road From Moab - 2014 Jeep Cherokee Limited Long-Term Road Test

Our 2014 Jeep Cherokee Limited 4x4 exceeded its EPA highway MPG fuel economy rating on every leg of my road trip to Moab, Utah.

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  • ebeaudoinebeaudoin Member Posts: 509
    Very cool! That's great MPG and really nice pictures. Great write-up.
  • legacygtlegacygt Member Posts: 599
    Very nice change from the vehicles where the highway number reflects some aspirational goal that will never be achieved. This is how it should be. Under ideal circumstances (highway only, relatively flat, light load, reasonable speeds) every car should beat it's EPA highway number.
  • g_k1g_k1 Member Posts: 14
    That stretch through Escalante is one of the most beautiful roads I've driven.
  • actualsizeactualsize Member Posts: 451
    By the way, that hole in the rock in the photo is just a hole in a rock, it's not THE Hole-in-the-Rock.

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  • nomercy346nomercy346 Member Posts: 69
    g_k1 said:

    That stretch through Escalante is one of the most beautiful roads I've driven.

    +1, reading Dan's write-up I'd love to pack some hiking gear and go back right now.

    I also remember the area around Goblin Valley state park as one of the most isolate feeling stretches of hwy in the southwest. There are many more isolated places say in NV, desert CA or further north in WY but those couple miles somehow stood out. Maybe it's the combination of being so flat, the road being dead straight and virtually no change in scenery for quite a while.
  • darthbimmerdarthbimmer Member Posts: 606
    Reminds me of my visit to Hole-in-the-Rock years ago in your vehicle's namesake, an XJ Cherokee. 60 miles of dirt road and slickrock each way, and the whole time it didn't set a tire wrong.

  • fordson1fordson1 Unconfirmed Posts: 1,512
    That's very good mileage...but as I have pointed out in other comments, this vehicle has been on a road-trip diet lately, with a lot of what I would call borderline hypermiling. That dashboard readout above of your great 35.5 mpg tank reflects an average speed of just under 65 mph, and yes as you say that's on a downhill route. There are not too many people who set out in the morning to make big miles that day who are averaging 65 mph.

    In the first 41 weeks you had it, it went 15,500 miles. In the past 7 1/2 weeks, it's gone 5,500 miles. You basically doubled your miles-per-month. That took highway miles...LOTS of highway miles.

    Still, though, that is very, very good performance.
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