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Originally Posted by elhigh
This paradigm of auto manufacturers refunding money to vehicle owners for cars not measuring up to their EPA stickers is completely new, utterly foreign to me. In the old days the ads very plainly said, "Your mileage may vary," which was code for "It'll be a cold day in Galveston before you get numbers this good," and we all understood that and it was okay.
God help us when people start analyzing EPA stickers vs. various cars' real world equipment, and start buying them specifically in anticipation of some future mileage-related payout.
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I have never been able to get below EPA rating on my vehicles ... or my parents vehicles. I can easily get 29-30 MPG out of their EcoBoast Escape.
Ultimately, what is comes out to is, people see 35MPG on something and drive all day with their foot in the floor and expect to get 35MPG.