Detroit to L.A. — Day 1 - 2015 Jeep Renegade Trailhawk Long-Term Road Test

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• opfreak Member Posts: 106

  January 2016

  Or better fuel economy. 12.7 gallon tank 250 miles = 19.7mpg. lets say you had .7 gallons left 20.8 mpg, I'll give you a whole gallon left in the tank... 21.4mpg on the freeway, in a 4 cylinder, with a 9spd? transmission? Joke.
  
  my m235 gets better mpg in the burbs, on short mile trips in winter, with winter tires.

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• aspade Member Posts: 42

  January 2016 edited January 2016

  Running your tank down to fumes on a winter road trip in unfamiliar territory is going beyond irresponsible and well into outright stupid.

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• longtimelurker Member Posts: 455

  January 2016

  This is all on that crappy Tigershark engine. The 2014 Cherokee with the 3.2L Pentastar and this same 9-speed tranny would do 30 mpg on the highway...in a larger, heavier vehicle.

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• dm7279 Member Posts: 63

  January 2016

  If you run above 75 mph, you are going to take a huge mpg hit, especially in a box-shaped car. It is possible he was only putting 9.5 or 10 gallons in at each fill up, which pegs economy around 25. Still not great for a small car.

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• nagant Member Posts: 176

  January 2016

  longtimelurker said:

  This is all on that crappy Tigershark engine. The 2014 Cherokee with the 3.2L Pentastar and this same 9-speed tranny would do 30 mpg on the highway...in a larger, heavier vehicle.

  BINGO! Its a turd and needs to die! If it had the engine it should have; a nice 1.6/8 turbo as its top line engine this would be a compelling Jeep to buy,

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• saxdogg Member Posts: 38

  January 2016

  Yeah wow on that mileage (and tank size). My Cummins 2500 Ram gets that mileage lol

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• jfa1177 Member Posts: 52

  February 2016

  My '05 Escape V6 2WD 4speed auto gets better fuel economy than this and its 10 years older and has about 130K more miles. I routinely get 300-350 miles per tank and I put in 14 gallons.

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• gslippy Member Posts: 514

  February 2016

  The Renegade doesn't need a bigger gas tank; it needs significantly better fuel economy. I wonder if the EPA will eventually call out FCA for the huge gap between the Renegade's EPA claims, and reality.

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