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Old 08-30-2010, 11:12 AM   #21 (permalink)
tumnasgt
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My family's new (to us) Hyundai Sonata is rated for 9l/100km with the EU standards, and 9.8l/100km (25MPG) with EPA. My mom generally gets around 9.5-11l/100km, and I would say that she drives kinder than most 'normal' people. With this car being my first hands on experience with the European ratings, I was rather shocked at how stupidly low the consumption numbers are.

In the old Camry, we would get about 9-9.5l/100km, with the EPA rating being the same 9.8l/100km as the Sonata. I suspect a lot of the difference is that we do quite a bit of city driving, and the Camry's manual transmission has the benefit of no torque converter, and engine braking. Now that I'm the only one driving the Camry, it's had two tanks of <7.1l/100km

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