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We drive about 50-50 (city/highway) driving sometimes slightly higher for city. Corollas offer the best fuel economy + reliability + resell value (but I don't plan on selling them)
List your transmission types with your mileage.
My most recent highway trip yielded me around 29 MPG a few months ago. Toyota isn't interested in looking into this and they are acting clueless. I think the problem is probably more widespread than most people realize, and I have a sneaky suspicion that the problem involves the problematic PCM which I'm sure Toyota would prefer for that problem to just go away as they are going to wind up spending a fortune when they are forced to do a recall because of the safety issues.
I would love to see some people with this same problem all get together and put pressure on Toyota or some regulatory agency to have something done about this
Thanks,
Kip
This is unlikely to account for all of the drop you are seeing, but something to consider.
I am using shell 87 octane.. I am going to test shell 91 v-power to see if I can get 33-35 mpg.
http://www.fuelly.com/driver/hondavtec/camry
with A.C 47.9. In the city it never drips below 29. For the week on average I get between 30-36 depending on how much highway driving I do. Yes, I drive at 60 on the highway...............not less,not more. in the city about the speed limit or just above.
I've touched 52mpg average again just going 60 mph. I think that speed is reasonable.
MNF
The increased tire pressure does make a difference with improved handling, fuel economy & tire wear remains excellent & even. Warm weather average is 40 MPG (39 city/41 highway) with a 50/50 mix of driving. This is possible only with the 5 speed manual when using shifting techniques to reduce engine pumping losses. The automatic is great on the highway, but unremarkable in the city.
I had an '02 with the 4 speed auto & hated it because of the inherent downshifting/lateshifting resulting in a higher RPM fuel consumption penalty during city driving. (30 city/40 highway)
The 2010 corolla I bought had only about 28 MPG in highway, about 3 miles lower than city(45MPH). This is definitely a problem they need to face.
We recently had a Corolla "S" rental with the 1.8L engine and auto tranny for a few days while my wifes RAV4 was in the dealers shop for a hard to find problem.
In local driving I averaged in the high 30s mpg. With some stop signs and traffic lights and little traffic. My wife averaged in the mid 30s commuting to work, with medium traffic and several traffic lights and stop signs and a bit of stop and go. . For comparison she averages 22-24 with the Rav4 auto and 2.5L 4 cylinder. I took it on a short trip on back roads, with just me in the car and averaged in the mid 40s. We took it to church with 3 inside and averaged 41+ mpg.
These mileages are from the on board dash gauge and it is likely a bit optimistic. However when comparing it to the gauged mileages we are getting on our Honda Ridgeline V6 and Rav4, the Corolla is a winner by a long shot. And yes, the tranny shifts were almost un detectable unless I monitored the tach.
Great little car.
Kip
EPA is a joke - especially for manuals. My car is only rated 31 highway.
It does sound like you are not getting into high gear, but the newer corollas should be about 2,820 rpm at 70 mph with the automatic and over 3,000 rpm with the manual.
Even so my average (calculated by dividing the mileage traveled- the difference in odometer readings between fill-ups- by the amount of gas it took to fill up) thus far is an unimpressive 27.99 MPG; even though the indicator in the dash says a suspicious "31.9" MPG. This is still an improvement for me (coming from a Land Rover Discovery at about 17 MPG), but disappointing considering many of the posts here, and considering that other than myself, my car is empty and this car is split at least 80/20 highway/city driving mileage-wise, and 60/40 time-wise...
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All these things will help.
I drive 95% highway, usually alone in the car. I drive the speed limit on the highway (occasionally a bit under). Going 55mph for long drives I average 48mpg and going 65 I average 42mpg (with summer gas at least, winter gas is a bit lower mpg for each speed). I use 5w-30 mobil 1 full synthetic.
If I do a bit of coasting down hills I can get 50mpg.
We were both super impressed with the comfort of the car and the fuel mileage. Her 09, 4 cylinder, Rav4 yields a pretty consistent 23 +/- for her work commute. The Corolla yielded 32+ for the same commute.
I drove it on some back roads with rolling hills and speed limits of 35-55 and got 48 mpg. No traffic or traffic lights, but a few stop signs. Drove it to church with 4 people inside and averaged 42 for the round trip. I do tend to be light on the brake and gas pedals. Whereas the wife tends to wait until the last second to take her foot off the throttle and apply the brake.
Wouldn't have surprised me at all to get 40+ mpg on the x-way at 60 mph.
Kip
The only way to check mileage accurately is the old fashioned way using the odometer. The trip computer generally gives a higher number than what is true.
Over 6 1/2 years the highest mileage my 2005 S-5 speed has gotten is 45, but only once. It averages mid 30's winter & upper 30's/low 40's summer with a 50/50 mix of city/highway driving.
Joe
in NYC stop and go driving. I know it's hard to believe but I've verified it myself several
times by regularly dividing miles driven by fuel needed to top off tank. Now realize this
includes little to no highway driving and driving often only one block at a time before
stopping either at a light or for traffic. But it still was quite disappointing and has never
been resolved. Strange or is it just about any car will get very poor mileage in NYC?