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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
Thanks for the update, Antony.
FYI, there's a second fuel consumption gauge in the MID (or a setting... I forget which) that let's you display a long term result vs. auto-resetting short trips.
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Ah, that's interesting to know. I did cycle through and couldn't find it, so either I wasn't looking very hard or Euro-market versions don't have such a setting. Who knows.
And yeah, it does look very much like the EPA ratings don't show it at its best, which isn't bad considering the Mirage is already among the highest-MPG non-hybrids. It's a pity European figures are so optimistic. I dug into the two tests a while back; there's only about a third the drive time on NEDC there is with the EPA, or something ridiculous like that. And average speeds are quite a bit lower.
Unless you drive everywhere at 45 mph (or have a car absolutely not optimized for the tests), European economy figures are pretty hard to hit. Fairly recent phenomenon too - I quite comfortably beat the Euro figures in the old
Ford Fiesta I had when I first joined EM.
I may see if Mitsubishi UK has a 1.2 with the CVT or even the smaller 1.0 version at some point - would be interesting to compare with the 1.2 manual I've only driven so far.