POLL: What is considered "good" gas mileage to you?

[psteng19]

I read in a lot of car forums that people think 25 mpg is good or even great.
I think 25 is pretty bad, but I'm coming from a car that gets me 40-45 mpg which I think is excellent gas mileage.

I guess it's all relative to what you currently drive.
I would consider 35+ mpg to be good.

 

[Eli]

25MPG or above is "Good" IMO.

Especially if you can pull near that in combined city/highway travel.

 

[jcovercash]

My honda gets 40-45mpg, and I consider anything about 40 good. I wouldnt drive any vehicle that gets below 5mpg.... (ONly picked that because there wasent an option for doont care.).

My mustang gets bad mileage and will get even worse with the built motor, but ill still drive it every nice day that I get a chance, who careshow much gas costs or how many mpg you get. Life is about living it, might as well ahve wha tyou want and deal with the rest.

 

[DPmaster]

Originally posted by: psteng19
I read in a lot of car forums that people think 25 mpg is good or even great.
I think 25 is pretty bad, but I'm coming from a car that gets me 40-45 mpg which I think is excellent gas mileage.

I guess it's all relative to what you drive.
I would consider 35+ mpg to be good.

I guess it really depends on what type of car it is. If a full-size SUV existed that got 30mpg, I would consider that good. If it's a 4-cylinder economy car that got 30mpg, not as good. I used to drive a CRX so I was used to 35+ mpg.

 

[Parrotheader]

For me personally:

20-25 = average mileage
25-30 = good mileage
30-35 = very good mileage
35+ = excellent mileage

It's definitely relative.

If I were single, didn't have a kid and didn't do freelance work on the side that requires a bit of cargo room it'd be easier to get by driving a small car that might get 35mpg. But for my own situation (factoring in my needs and financial priorities) that's simply not workable. I drive a midsize sedan which gets "good" mileage and that's the balancing point that works best for me.

 

[KentState]

My GTO averages around 21-25 mpg with my typical commute. I feel that's below average and anything between 25-30 is pretty average since a Honda, Nissan, Mazda, GM, V6 can get into that range. The 4 cylinders higher output models that I've owned have gotten around 32mpg which i think is decent, but I never had a smaller 4 cylinder that was purely a commuter car. I know some of the smaller Toyota and Honda engines can get 40+mpg which is probably the best on a pure gasoline engine.

 

[Sex Smurf]

Why do the cars with the insanely great mpg have to be so ugly?

For instance, the old Nissan Pulsar NX. That car got 50mpg but was butt ass ugly.

 

[Tommunist]

Originally posted by: KentState
My GTO averages around 21-25 mpg with my typical commute. I feel that's below average and anything between 25-30 is pretty average since a Honda, Nissan, Mazda, GM, V6 can get into that range. The 4 cylinders higher output models that I've owned have gotten around 32mpg which i think is decent, but I never had a smaller 4 cylinder that was purely a commuter car. I know some of the smaller Toyota and Honda engines can get 40+mpg which is probably the best on a pure gasoline engine.

that's pretty good mpg for a high powered car. "good" is certainly relative to the size and performence of the vehicle.

 

[KentState]

Originally posted by: Sex Smurf
Why do the cars with the insanely great mpg have to be so ugly?

For instance, the old Nissan Pulsar NX. That car got 50mpg but was butt ass ugly.

Function or form or form over function, your pick. Combined together, you have a $29k Honda Accord or an even more expensive Lexus SUV.

 

[KentState]

Originally posted by: Tommunist

Originally posted by: KentState
My GTO averages around 21-25 mpg with my typical commute. I feel that's below average and anything between 25-30 is pretty average since a Honda, Nissan, Mazda, GM, V6 can get into that range. The 4 cylinders higher output models that I've owned have gotten around 32mpg which i think is decent, but I never had a smaller 4 cylinder that was purely a commuter car. I know some of the smaller Toyota and Honda engines can get 40+mpg which is probably the best on a pure gasoline engine.

that's pretty good mpg for a high powered car. "good" is certainly relative to the size and performence of the vehicle.

A lot of people are suprised when I tell them I can get that gas mileage, but a typical 15 gallon fill up gets around 340 miles. The key is the 6 speed manual that sits around 1500 rpms at 60 mph or 2000k at 80 mph.

 

[radioouman]

>25

Most cars that get greater than 30 in AVERAGE driving have significant sacrifices either in size or engine.

 

[Aharami]

I get around 22-24 mpg with regular driving (lead foot)
Ever since gas prices started going up i calmed down and drive/accelerate much slower....to the point of grannying it. The best i got out of one tank was 27.3 mpg on average.

this is with 50-50 highway and stop-and-go small roads driving

 

[Ryan]

I get 30mpg or more in my Scion xB, so that's good to me

 

[Bassyhead]

I get 35 MPG combined highway and city. I wouldn't buy a vehicle getting less than 25 average.

 

[conehead433]

I get about 128 miles per gallon of water on my bicycle.

 

[psteng19]

Originally posted by: jcovercash
My honda gets 40-45mpg, and I consider anything about 40 good. I wouldnt drive any vehicle that gets below 5mpg.... (ONly picked that because there wasent an option for doont care.).

My mustang gets bad mileage and will get even worse with the built motor, but ill still drive it every nice day that I get a chance, who careshow much gas costs or how many mpg you get. Life is about living it, might as well ahve wha tyou want and deal with the rest.

If your car got 4 mpg (or even 6 mpg), I'm sure you would care.
At least enough to drive it a lot less.

 

[SynthDude2001]

My car gets 17/25, and I'd not really like to drive anything much lower than that.

 

[acemcmac]

I frequently drive over 100mph... so my idea of "good gas mileage" is jaded

 

[IronWing]

Any mileage is good mileage.

 

[Heisenberg]

For mostly city driving, 25+mpg is good IMO.

 

[DPmaster]

Had a friend who had a Trailblazer (lifted up like you wouldn't believe) that got 9 miles to the gallon.

 

[YoshiSato]

Originally posted by: Sex Smurf
Why do the cars with the insanely great mpg have to be so ugly?

For instance, the old Nissan Pulsar NX. That car got 50mpg but was butt ass ugly.

Aerodinamics are not always pretty. After about 45 miles drag affect fuel useage more than acceleration or tire friction(which causes low MPG when city driving)

 

[EyeMWing]

Minimum depends on the individual car - if it were a supercar, it could take a gallon a mile and I wouldn't care.

 

[YoshiSato]

There is a hybird that gets 250MPG. It was modified from a normaly hybird(I think the guy was using the toyota). The way he managed to get 250MPG was he converted the car into a "plug-in hybird" which means, he added more batteries to the car and makes the car run off battery power like an electirc car. When the batteries get low on juice the engine kicks in and recharges the batteries(The way a disel sub works)

The catch is plug-in hybirds add about $6000 + to the cost of the normal hybird(which is about $2500 more than a normal car)

Even though this is a very expensive option the plug in hybird does have some good meirt. It will have the range of a normal/hybird car yet will be very cheap to drive around town and short distances( + electricity is very very cheap compared to Gas or disel)

They should be investing more in to these type of cars because we have the technology now instead of this stupid hydogen economey crap that will not happen in our life times(well the life times of the researchers or law makers anyways)

 

[iamwiz82]

190 miles out of the last tank, filled it up to 14.5 gallons. Good thing it lasts 17 days