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Old 10-26-2012, 12:24 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ps2fixer View Post
Seems they are not so good with Toyotas, my Camry is 22mpg highway, back road country I averaged 27mph driving "normal" at 60mph before ecomodder. My corolla is something like 26mpg highway, and I pulled 33mpg on the highway going 75mph, alignment WAY off, bad tires/struts, etc. I get 40-45mpg with very little mods and slowing down now.

I can't seem to understand why the numbers are so way off. For example, the Camry, I went 70-75mph with a trailer behind it and got 22mpg and the car has 300k miles. Acording to the EPA, i should have gotten under 19mpg and 22 with out the trailer at all. Back then I was just a typical driver, didn't even think about saving fuel besides getting a smaller car for 30mpg+.
The EPA rating for your Corolla is 23 city/31 highway, and the Camry 18 city/25 highway. And these are the revised numbers; when the cars were new the Camry was rated 21/27 and the Corolla 27/34. Your observed economy is well within those ranges, and similar to what I got out of my Civic before I started ecomodding (revised EPA 34 highway, original 37, and I got 36-37 driving normally i.e. wastefully).
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