Canadian Gas Mileage

[T-Funk]

Originally Posted by PurrfectFit

In response to:

I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to express mpg using Canadian gallons
I'm certain thats why some of these guys have such exaggerated mpg estimates.

As good Canucks we should express it in the metric system as liters per 100 Kilometers but I grew up with mpg and even when I went to the local car dealers here, they had stickers on the cars that showed both mpg and liters per 100K which helped me relate. For the Americans on this site, they will not relate as well to metric except to see that certain cars like the Fit, Yaris, etc. use very few liters to travel 100 K. But as far as I know, there's no rule on how to express fuel consumption when communicating this to others, and most people I speak with are in (or closer to my age group), and can relate to mpg better (and they all know that the US gallon is 3.78 liters whereas the Canadian/Imperial gallon is 4.54 liters).

its just crazy to convert to miles, and then use imperial gallons
why would you mix measurement standards

if you're gonna use the american's miles, you might as well use their gallon as well

[zukered]

Adding to this somewhat comatose thread, I finally have numbers to contribute...

Filled up 4 times since I got my M/T in mid-May, and I'm averaging 6.75 L/100km or 34.9 mpg (1 US gallon = 3.7854 L), roughly 50/50 city/highway by distance.

[PurrfectFit]

Well, I use regular all the time, so I don't know is the octane rating is having any impact, but I am a bit disappointed that my consumption is not improving, but getting worse. Given we are in summer weather, and I am of course running on summer tires, I was surprised when my combined city / highway mileage was only 35 IMPG

I drive carefully, and I'm not hard on the car for starts, and stops, and employ techniques to help with consumption, (yes, I do use A/C when it's hot), so I expected to see an improvement by now. Perhaps if I only did highway driving I might much better figures, but I don't take long trips with this car--normally nothing further than 1 1/2 hours away at today's highway speeds.

Later,

[zukered]

I use regular as well, but I haven't paid attention as to whether I'm using an ethanol blend.

I also am expecting better mileage; I'm already pretty conservative in my driving style, and don't see what I could be doing differently without going into the more extreme hypermiling techniques.

However, considering my combined city/highway mileage is beating even the highway numbers given by the revised (and more realistic) EPA mileage estimates, I'm not that worried.

[Sugarphreak]

Here are my current averages;

7.7L/100km when I track it

6.7-7.0L/100km in the city

6.0L/100km on the highway

[zukered]

Originally Posted by Sugarphreak

Here are my current averages;

7.7L/100km when I track it

6.7-7.0L/100km in the city

6.0L/100km on the highway

Not bad

How do you keep track of city vs highway? I calculate mileage based on trip km, and litres put into tank (always stop filling up at the first click); I don't know how to divide that further into city and highway...

[wpgfit]

Originally Posted by Sugarphreak

Here are my current averages;

7.7L/100km when I track it

6.7-7.0L/100km in the city

6.0L/100km on the highway

what's your average highway speed? MT or Auto?