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Originally Posted by undrgnd
Being a Prius owner and long time aficionado of fuel efficient autos, I had to read about a conventional auto that rivals the best hybrid ever made. I was starting to believe, until I read that stopping at the mailbox costs you 1-2 mpg per tank. So every traffic light, cow in the road, or any other stop you encounter once a day drops your FE the same? A tenth of an MPG on a tank, maybe. If you see 1-2 MPG for this event, there is no way you'd be getting 55 MPG overall.
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I got 45.7 without much effort and have the pictures to show it- but I guess one could always say I doctored up the pic or reset my MPG gauge to take the picture. Honestly, we have plenty of people on this site that get over 50 mpg running regular gas cars.
BTW: I do not always let my car run for a red-light. If it's a warm day and I'm not as worried over keeping my battery charged I will turn off my engine for the long red-lights, and restart when I see it's ready to change. Every little effort like this adds up. The Cobalt XFE likes to ROLL, in fact it likes to roll so much it's not easy to stop, the braking distance is too far. So in these foot hills it is a perfect location to run in EOC- and THAT is truly where one saves gas mileage. I'm sure I could easily get 55mpg on one tank of gas ig I stuck to 55mph and lower roads and used EOC as much as I could (in warm weather). However cold weather lowers the MPG in my XFE due to the need to keep the battery charged.. at least in my car.