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Originally Posted by hoover
We went on vacation to the Carolinas, actually traveled almost 2,500 miles. Used the scan gauge out of my truck, and hand figured all gas mileage. Was a real disappointment to average 33 mpg for the trip. My wife travels 110 miles a day back and forth to work. So far her best has been 36 mpg.
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On highway trips, how fast were/are you driving? That is the
key factor, as demonstrated by Popular Mechanics (see their graph, further up this thread). If you want to achieve/beat the EPA figures, then you cannot drive faster than the speeds that were used in the EPA test, period.